Electoral results for the district of Upper Yarra
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Upper Yarra in Victorian state elections.
Members for Upper Yarra
[edit]Party | Member | Term | |
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Nationalist | George Knox | 1927 – 1945 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | George Knox | 10,307 | 65.0 | −35.0 | |
Labor | Arthur Fraser | 3,874 | 24.4 | +24.4 | |
Communist | George Brown | 1,674 | 10.6 | +10.6 | |
Total formal votes | 16,185 | 86.6 | |||
Informal votes | 330 | 98.0 | |||
Turnout | 16,185 | 86.6 | |||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | George Knox | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | George Knox | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | George Knox | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | George Knox | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | George Knox | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | George Knox | 4,057 | 40.2 | ||
Labor | Henry Courtney | 3,076 | 30.5 | ||
Independent | John Mahony | 1,402 | 13.9 | ||
Australian Liberal | George Ingram | 554 | 5.5 | ||
Country | John Dedman | 503 | 5.0 | ||
Independent | Henry Glynn | 492 | 4.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 10,084 | 96.9 | |||
Informal votes | 327 | 3.1 | |||
Turnout | 10,411 | 90.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | George Knox | 6,320 | 62.7 | ||
Labor | Henry Courtney | 3,764 | 37.3 | ||
Nationalist 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.