Electoral results for the district of Boroondara
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Boroondara in Victorian state elections.
Members for Boroondara
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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George Smith | Unaligned | 1877 | |
Robert Smith | Unaligned | 1878–1882 | |
William Walker | Unaligned | 1882–1889 |
A new district, Eastern Suburbs, was created in 1889 covering much of the same area as Boroondara.
Boroondara was re-created in 1904.
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Sir Frank Madden | Liberal | 1904–1917 | |
Edmund Greenwood | Nationalist | 1917–1927 | |
Richard Linton | Nationalist | 1927–1931 | |
UAP | 1931–1933 | ||
Trevor Oldham | UAP | 1933–1945 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Trevor Oldham | 19,517 | 58.4 | -12.0 | |
Independent | Lila Monsbourgh | 13,881 | 41.6 | +41.6 | |
Total formal votes | 33,398 | 97.9 | −0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 730 | 2.1 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,128 | 86.9 | −5.8 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Trevor Oldham | 21,921 | 70.4 | -29.6 | |
Independent | Reuben Kefford | 9,196 | 29.6 | +29.6 | |
Total formal votes | 31,117 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 585 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 31,702 | 92.7 | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Trevor Oldham | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Trevor Oldham | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Trevor Oldham | 8,068 | 35.8 | ||
Labor | Muriel Heagney | 4,632 | 20.5 | ||
United Australia | James Nettleton | 3,271 | 14.5 | ||
United Australia | Cedric Pullman | 2,610 | 11.6 | ||
United Australia | Danial Berriman | 1,732 | 7.7 | ||
United Australia | Robert Sylvester | 1,550 | 6.9 | ||
United Australia | James Fowler | 686 | 3.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 22,549 | 95.3 | |||
Informal votes | 1,101 | 4.7 | |||
Turnout | 23,650 | 91.6 | |||
After distribution of preferences | |||||
United Australia | Trevor Oldham | 11,283 | 50.0 | ||
United Australia | James Nettleton | 5,772 | 25.6 | ||
Labor | Muriel Heagney | 5,494 | 24.4 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not fully distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Richard Linton | unopposed | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Richard Linton | 13,881 | 60.3 | +20.6 | |
Labor | Robert Dodman | 9,152 | 39.7 | +11.2 | |
Total formal votes | 23,033 | 99.1 | +3.0 | ||
Informal votes | 204 | 0.9 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,237 | 93.6 | +0.9 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | -3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Richard Linton | 7,712 | 39.7 | ||
Labor | Robert Dodman | 5,542 | 28.5 | ||
Independent | David Evans | 1,644 | 8.5 | ||
Ind. Nationalist | Robert Sylvester | 1,590 | 8.2 | ||
Australian Liberal | Victor Ginn | 1,573 | 8.1 | ||
Independent | Louis Holmes | 1,375 | 7.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 19,436 | 96.1 | |||
Informal votes | 798 | 3.9 | |||
Turnout | 20,234 | 92.7 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Richard Linton | 12,125 | 63.4 | ||
Labor | Robert Dodman | 7,311 | 37.6 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Edmund Greenwood | 17,670 | 63.1 | -36.9 | |
Independent Liberal | Philip Jacobs | 10,348 | 36.9 | +36.9 | |
Total formal votes | 28,018 | 99.6 | |||
Informal votes | 127 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 28,145 | 44.6 | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Edmund Greenwood | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Edmund Greenwood | 16,885 | 61.5 | +18.6 | |
Nationalist | George Palmer | 6,721 | 24.5 | +24.5 | |
Labor | William Wilcock | 3,858 | 14.0 | +14.0 | |
Total formal votes | 27,464 | 93.6 | −3.2 | ||
Informal votes | 573 | 6.4 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 29,340 | 60.5 | +14.8 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Edmund Greenwood | 7,461 | 42.9 | ||
Nationalist | Frank Madden | 4,839 | 27.8 | ||
Nationalist | Frederick Francis | 2,654 | 15.2 | ||
Nationalist | Walter Hiscock | 2,450 | 14.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 17,404 | 96.8 | −1.5 | ||
Informal votes | 573 | 3.2 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 17,977 | 45.7 | +6.8 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Edmund Greenwood | 11,258 | 66.7 | ||
Nationalist | Frank Madden | 6,146 | 33.3 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Frank Madden | 7,929 | 69.2 | +8.8 | |
Labor | Ralph Charrett | 3,537 | 30.8 | +30.8 | |
Total formal votes | 11,466 | 98.3 | −1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 204 | 1.7 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 11,670 | 38.9 | −13.3 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Frank Madden | 6,096 | 60.4 | +10.2 | |
Independent Liberal | Harold Wilkinson | 3,993 | 39.6 | +39.6 | |
Total formal votes | 10,089 | 99.4 | −0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 60 | 0.6 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 10,149 | 52.2 | +10.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
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.