Electoral results for the district of Borung
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Borung in Victorian state elections.
Members for Borung
[edit]First incarnation (1889–1927)
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Walter Duncan | 1889–1892 | ||
John Dyer | 1892–1902 | ||
William Hutchinson | Ministerialist | 1902–1917 | |
Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
David Allison | Victorian Farmers' Union | 1920–1927 |
Second incarnation (1945–1955)
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Wilfred Mibus | Country | 1945–1949 | |
Liberal and Country | 1949–1955 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Wilfred Mibus | 8,174 | 61.9 | +5.5 | |
Labor | Lionel Reid | 5,030 | 38.1 | +38.1 | |
Total formal votes | 13,204 | 99.3 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 99 | 0.7 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 13,303 | 95.6 | −0.5 | ||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Wilfred Mibus | 7,354 | 56.4 | +56.4 | |
Country | Rupert Levitzke | 5,644 | 43.6 | −20.9 | |
Total formal votes | 13,031 | 99.1 | 0.0 | ||
Informal votes | 123 | 0.9 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 13,154 | 96.1 | −0.1 | ||
Liberal and Country gain from Country | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country | Wilfred Mibus | 8,225 | 64.5 | +37.2 | |
Independent Country | Finlay Cameron | 4,521 | 35.5 | +19.9 | |
Total formal votes | 12,746 | 99.1 | +0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 121 | 0.9 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 12,867 | 96.2 | +5.9 | ||
Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Arthur Ackland | 3,680 | 31.8 | ||
Country | Wilfred Mibus | 3,159 | 27.3 | ||
Independent Country | Winton Turnbull | 2,273 | 19.7 | ||
Country | Finlay Cameron | 1,808 | 15.6 | ||
Independent | Florence Rodan | 645 | 5.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 11,565 | 98.5 | |||
Informal votes | 172 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 11,737 | 90.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country | Wilfred Mibus | 6,794 | 58.7 | ||
Labor | Arthur Ackland | 4,771 | 41.3 | ||
Country hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country | David Allison | 1,901 | 51.2 | −1.4 | |
Country | Edwin Reseigh | 932 | 25.1 | +25.1 | |
Country | George Clyne | 878 | 23.7 | +23.7 | |
Total formal votes | 3,711 | 98.7 | −0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 51 | 1.3 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 3,762 | 47.9 | −23.9 | ||
Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victorian Farmers | David Allison | 2,938 | 52.6 | +0.4 | |
Nationalist | William Hutchinson | 2,652 | 47.4 | −0.4 | |
Total formal votes | 5,590 | 99.5 | +1.6 | ||
Informal votes | 31 | 0.5 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 5,621 | 71.8 | +1.0 | ||
Victorian Farmers hold | Swing | +0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victorian Farmers | David Allison | 2,788 | 52.2 | +3.8 | |
Nationalist | William Hutchinson | 2,557 | 47.8 | −3.8 | |
Total formal votes | 5,345 | 97.9 | +1.3 | ||
Informal votes | 114 | 2.1 | −1.3 | ||
Turnout | 5,459 | 70.8 | +9.7 | ||
Victorian Farmers gain from Nationalist | Swing | +3.8 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | William Hutchinson | 2,266 | 51.6 | ||
Victorian Farmers | Edwin Reseigh | 2,127 | 48.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 4,393 | 96.6 | |||
Informal votes | 156 | 3.4 | |||
Turnout | 4,549 | 61.1 | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Hutchinson | unopposed | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Hutchinson | unopposed | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1975). Voting for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 070811332X.