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Electoral results for the district of Wangaratta and Ovens

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This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in Victorian state elections.

Members for Wangaratta and Ovens

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Member Party Term
  John Bowser Country 1927–1929
  Lot Diffey Country 1929–1945

Election results

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Elections in the 1940s

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1943 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 6,478 66.5 −7.3
Labor Charles McKissack 3,263 33.5 +33.5
Total formal votes 9,741 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 108 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 9,849 87.0 −5.6
Country hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 7,700 73.8 −26.2
Liberal Country Rupert Whalley 2,727 26.2 +26.2
Total formal votes 10,427 98.7
Informal votes 141 1.3
Turnout 10,568 92.6
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

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1937 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey unopposed
Country hold Swing
1935 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 5,601 53.6 −46.4
Labor Paul Jones 4,853 46.4 +46.4
Total formal votes 10,454 99.1
Informal votes 93 0.9
Turnout 10,547 94.1
Country hold Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey unopposed
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1929 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Walker 3,428 38.3 +38.3
Country Lot Diffey 2,821 31.6 −30.8
Country Progressive William Higgins 1,375 15.4 +15.4
Independent Country Percival Inchbold 1,313 14.7 +14.7
Total formal votes 8,937 98.7 +1.9
Informal votes 114 1.3 −1.9
Turnout 9,051 95.1 +3.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country Lot Diffey 4,869 54.5 +1.3
Labor Clive Walker 4,068 45.5 +45.5
Country hold Swing N/A
1927 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country John Bowser 3,221 38.8
Australian Liberal William Higgins 3,116 37.6
Country Lot Diffey 1,953 23.6
Total formal votes 8,290 96.8
Informal votes 271 3.2
Turnout 8,561 92.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country John Bowser 4,409 53.2
Australian Liberal William Higgins 3,881 46.8
Country hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ 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.