Electoral results for the district of East Melbourne
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of East Melbourne in Victorian state elections.
Members for East Melbourne
[edit]Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term |
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Alexander Hunter | Oct 1859 – Jun 1861[1] | Sir James McCulloch | Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 |
Sir Graham Berry | Jul 1861[b] | ||
Ambrose Kyte | Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 | Edward Cohen | Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 |
Edward Langton | Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 | Nathaniel Levi | Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 |
Frederick Walsh | Mar 1868 – Mar 1874 | Edward Cohen | Mar 1868 – Apr 1877 |
George Selth Coppin | May 1874 – Apr 1877 | ||
Ephraim Zox | May 1877 – Jun 1879 [r] | Alexander Kennedy Smith | May 1877 – Jan 1881 |
Ephraim Zox | Jul 1879[b] – Oct 1899[d] | Frederick Walsh | Feb 1881[b] – Feb 1883 |
George Selth Coppin | Feb 1883 – Mar 1889 | ||
Frank Stuart | Apr 1889 – Sep 1894 | ||
John Anderson | Oct 1894 – Jun 1901 | ||
Sir Samuel Gillott | Nov 1899 – Dec 1906[r] | John Francis Deegan | Jul 1901[b] – Sep 1902 |
William Watt | Oct 1902 – May 1904 |
Single Member District 1904–1927 | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Samuel Gillott | Unaligned | 1904–1906 | |
Henry Weedon | Unaligned | 1906–1911 | |
Alfred Farthing | Liberal | 1911–1917 | |
Nationalist | 1917–1924 | ||
Liberal | 1924–1927 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | George Hooper | 2,625 | 47.5 | +1.8 | |
Australian Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 2,542 | 46.0 | +46.0 | |
Independent | William Carnegie | 363 | 6.5 | +6.5 | |
Total formal votes | 5,530 | 97.2 | −2.2 | ||
Informal votes | 161 | 2.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,691 | 52.0 | +9.4 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Australian Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 2,826 | 51.1 | +51.1 | |
Labor | George Hooper | 2,704 | 48.9 | +3.2 | |
Australian Liberal gain from Nationalist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Alfred Farthing | 2,810 | 54.3 | −22.8 | |
Labor | Michael Collins | 2,363 | 45.7 | +5.1 | |
Total formal votes | 5,173 | 99.4 | +6.5 | ||
Informal votes | 29 | 0.6 | −6.5 | ||
Turnout | 5,202 | 42.6 | −12.6 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Michael Collins | 2,506 | 40.6 | +10.5 | |
Nationalist | Alfred Farthing | 1,940 | 31.5 | −3.0 | |
Nationalist | George Kemp | 1,722 | 27.9 | +3.2 | |
Total formal votes | 6,168 | 92.9 | −3.5 | ||
Informal votes | 474 | 7.1 | +3.5 | ||
Turnout | 6,642 | 55.2 | +7.9 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Alfred Farthing | 3,133 | 50.8 | ||
Labor | Michael Collins | 3,035 | 49.2 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Alfred Farthing | 1,854 | 34.5 | +5.9 | |
Labor | Sydney Walker | 1,615 | 30.1 | +2.3 | |
Nationalist | George Kemp | 1,325 | 24.7 | +24.7 | |
Temperance Movement | John Barrett | 577 | 10.7 | +10.7 | |
Total formal votes | 5,371 | 96.4 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 203 | 3.6 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 5,574 | 47.3 | −4.8 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Alfred Farthing | 3,157 | 58.8 | ||
Nationalist | George Kemp | 2,214 | 41.2 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Henry Weedon | 1,990 | 29.8 | +29.8 | |
Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 1,910 | 28.6 | −16.7 | |
Labor | Percy Clarey | 1,853 | 27.8 | +1.5 | |
Independent | Valentine Cole | 918 | 13.8 | +13.8 | |
Total formal votes | 6,671 | 96.1 | −2.1 | ||
Informal votes | 270 | 3.9 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 6,941 | 52.1 | −2.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 3,729 | 55.9 | +4.9 | |
Independent | Henry Weedon | 2,942 | 44.1 | −4.9 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Weedon | 2,737 | 45.3 | N/A | |
Independent Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 1,716 | 28.4 | +28.4 | |
Labor | Frank Opitz | 1,588 | 26.3 | +26.3 | |
Total formal votes | 6,043 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 111 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 6,154 | 55.8 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent Liberal | Alfred Farthing | 3,084 | 51.0 | ||
Liberal | Henry Weedon | 2,957 | 49.0 | ||
Independent Liberal gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A |
References
[edit]- ^ Hunter resigned 19 June 1861. "Parliamentary Intelligence". The Star. Ballarat, Vic. 20 June 1861. p. 2.
- ^ 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.