Electoral results for the district of North Melbourne

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of North Melbourne in Victorian state elections.

Members for North Melbourne

Two members initially, one from the redistribution of 1889 when Port Melbourne and other districts were created.

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
John Sinclair	Oct 1859 – Jul  1861	George Elliott Barton	Oct 1859 – Jul? 1861
Patrick Costello	Aug 1861 – Nov 1861[x]	John Davies	Aug 1861 – Aug 1864
John Sinclair	Nov 1861– Aug 1864
John Goulson Burtt	Nov 1864 – Mar 1874	William Robinson	Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
		John Harbison	Feb 1866 – Jan 1871
James Munro	May 1874 – Apr 1877	John Curtain	Apr 1871 – Apr 1877
John Laurens	May 1877 – Mar 1889	Joseph Storey	May 1877 – Mar 1881
		James Munro	Apr 1881[b] – Feb 1883
		James Rose	Feb 1883 – Mar 1889

Single Member District 1889–1927
Member		Party	Term
	John Laurens	Unaligned	1889–1892
	David Wyllie	Unaligned	1892–1893
	Sylvanus Reynolds[b]	Unaligned	1893–1894
	George Prendergast	Labour	1894–1897
	William Watt	Unaligned	1897–1900
	George Prendergast	Labor	1900–1927

^b = by-election

^x = expelled

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1924 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1921 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1920 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	7,359	67.8	+1.4
	Nationalist	Henry Raphael	3,496	32.2	−1.4
Total formal votes			10,855	98.6	+2.4
Informal votes			152	1.4	−2.4
Turnout			11,007	62.7	+10.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.4

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	5,731	66.4	−3.1
	Nationalist	John Vroland	2,899	33.6	+3.1
Total formal votes			8,630	96.2	−0.6
Informal votes			341	3.8	+0.6
Turnout			8,971	52.6	+7.6
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.1

1914 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	5,294	69.5	+10.9
	Liberal	Henry Nolan	2,320	30.5	−10.9
Total formal votes			7,614	96.8	−2.1
Informal votes			253	3.2	+2.1
Turnout			7,867	45.0	−19.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+10.9

1911 Victorian state election: North Melbourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Prendergast	5,637	58.6	N/A
	Liberal	Solomon Bloom	3,982	41.4	+41.4
Total formal votes			9,619	98.9
Informal votes			103	1.1
Turnout			9,722	64.8
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A