User:Teiresias84/Drafts/Victorian legislative election, various result tables

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Contents

[edit] 1952

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 504,773 49.07 +3.78 37 +13
  Liberal and Country Party 255,685 24.86 -15.83 11 -16
  Country Party 85,843 8.34 -2.30 12 -1
  Electoral Reform League 98,641 9.59 +9.59 4 +4
  Communist Party of Australia 12,670 1.23 +0.71 0 0
  Others 71,068 6.91 +4.05 1 0
  Total 1,028,680     65  

(note) Four of the eleven ERL candiates were also endorsed as LCP candidates. Their results are inculded in the ERL statistics.

Three Country Party members and ten ALP members were elected unopposed. The vote for both parties is therefore understated.

[edit] 1955

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal and Country Party 487,408 37.87 +12.92 33 +22
  Australian Labor Party 420,197 32.57 -16.50 20 -17
  Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) 162,660 12.61 +12.61 1 +1
  Country Party 122,999 9.53 +1.19 11 -1
  Victorian Liberal Party 44,692 9.30 -6.13 0 -4
  Communist Party of Australia 4,589 0.36 -0.87 0 0
  Others 47,434 3.67 -3.24 1 0
  Total 1,289,979     66  

One Country Party member was elected unopposed. The Country Party vote is therefore understated.

[edit] 1958

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 515,638 37.69 +5.12 18 -2
  Liberal and Country Party 508,678 37.18 -0.60 39 +6
  Democratic Labor Party 197,380 14.43 +1.82 0 -1
  Country Party 127,228 9.30 -0.23 9 -2
  Communist Party of Australia 1,359 0.10 -0.26 0 0
  Others 17,770 1.30 -2.37 0 -1
  Total 1,368,053     66  


[edit] 1961

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 552,015 38.55 +0.86 17 -1
  Liberal and Country Party 521,777 36.44 -0.74 39 0
  Democratic Labor Party 242,753 16.95 +2.52 0 0
  Country Party 102,184 7.14 -2.16 9 0
  Communist Party of Australia 3,722 0.26 +0.16 0 0
  Others 9,474 0.66 -0.64 1 +1
  Total 1,431,925     66  

[edit] 1964

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal and Country Party 597,748 39.63 +3.19 38 -1
  Australian Labor Party 546,279 36.22 -2.33 18 +1
  Democratic Labor Party 225,779 14.97 -1.98 0 0
  Country Party 132,067 8.76 +1.62 10 +1
  Communist Party of Australia 3,741 0.25 -0.01 0 0
  Others 2,533 0.17 -0.49 0 -1
  Total 1,508,147     66  

[edit] 1967

  • reintroduction of malapportionment
Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 596,520 37.90 +1.68 16 -2
  Liberal Party of Australia 589,985 37.49 -2.14 44 +6
  Democratic Labor Party 222,989 14.29 -0.68 0 0
  Country Party 136,126 8.65 -0.11 12 +2
  Communist Party of Australia 1,443 0.09 -0.16 0 0
  Others 24,792 1.58 +1.41 1 +1
  Total 1,573,855     73  

[edit] 1970

  • Country Party second preferences to ALP
Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 693,105 41.42 +3.52 22 +6
  Liberal Party of Australia 614,094 36.70 -0.79 42 -2
  Democratic Labor Party 222,591 13.30 -0.99 0 0
  Country Party 107,011 6.39 -2.26 8 -4
  Others 36,421 2.18 +0.60 1 0
  Total 1,673,222     73  

[edit] 1973

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal Party of Australia 803,382 42.34 +5.64 46 +4
  Australian Labor Party 789,561 41.61 +0.20 18 -4
  Democratic Labor Party 147,890 7.80 -5.50 0 0
  Country Party 113,029 5.96 -0.43 8 0
  Australia Party 32,705 1.72 +1.72 0 0
  Others 10,747 0.56 -1.62 1 0
  Total 1,897,314     73  

[edit] 1976

  • New restribution reduces level of malapportionment, but some remains.
Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal Party of Australia 939,481 45.87 +3.53 52 +6
  Australian Labor Party 869,021 42.43 +0.81 21 +3
  National Party of Australia 144,818 7.07 +1.11 7 -1
  Democratic Labor Party 52,765 2.58 -5.22 0 0
  Australia Party 3,430 0.17 -1.55 0 0
  Others 38,482 1.88 +1.32 1 0
  Total 2,047,997     81  

[edit] 1979

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 962,123 45.23 +2.80 32 +11
  Liberal Party of Australia 881,366 41.44 -4.43 41 -11
  National Party of Australia 119,385 5.61 -1.46 8 +1
  Australian Democrats 114,053 5.36 +5.36 0 0
  Democratic Labor Party 10,907 0.51 -2.07 0 0
  Australia Party 5,222 0.25 +0.08 0 0
  Others 33,965 1.60 -0.28 0 -1
  Total 2,127,021     81  
Legislative Council
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Seats Held
  Australian Labor Party 958,158 45.33 +2.51 8 13
  Liberal Party of Australia 924,525 43.74 -4.80 12 27
  National Party of Australia 124,050 5.87 -2.02 2 4
  Australian Democrats 60,392 2.86 +2.86 0 0
  Democratic Labor Party 3,212 0.15 -0.47 0 0
  Others 43,430 2.05 +1.92 0 0
  Total 2,113,767     22 44

[edit] 1982

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 1,122,887 50.01 +4.78 49 +17
  Liberal Party of Australia 860,669 38.33 -3.11 24 -17
  Australian Democrats 119,083 5.30 -0.06 0 0
  National Party of Australia 111,579 4.97 -0.64 8 0
  Democratic Labor Party 7,636 0.34 -0.17 0 0
  Australia Party 1,333 0.06 -0.19 0 0
  Others 22,314 0.99 -0.61 0 0
  Total 2,245,501     81  
Legislative Council
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Seats Held
  Australian Labor Party 1,105,650 49.56 +4.23 12 20
  Liberal Party of Australia 874,735 39.21 -4.53 8 20
  National Party of Australia 122,637 5.50 -0.37 2 4
  Australian Democrats 112,098 5.02 +2.16 0 0
  Democratic Labor Party 11,780 0.53 -0.38 0 0
  Others 3,904 0.17 -1.87 0 0
  Total 2,230,804     22 44

[edit] 1985

  • malapportionment abloished (for good this time)
Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 1,198,262 50.01 +0.00 47 -2
  Liberal Party of Australia 1,003,003 41.86 +3.53 31 +7
  National Party of Australia 174,727 7.29 +2.32 8 0
  Others 20,127 0.84 -0.15 0 0
  Total 2,396,119     88  
Legislative Council
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Seats Held
  Australian Labor Party 1,128,747 47.28 -2.28 11 23
  Liberal Party of Australia 982,418 41.15 +1.94 8 16
  National Party of Australia 159,299 6.67 +1.17 2 5
  Australian Democrats 95,045 3.98 -1.04 0 0
  Call to Australia 16,849 0.71 +0.71 0 0
  Others 5,148 0.22 +0.04 0 0
  Total 2,387,506     22 44

(Note): The Province of Nunawading was won by Labor on the casting vote of the returning officer. The Liberals succesfully contested this ruling in the Court of Disputed Returns and won the resulting by-election. After the by-election the numbers for the Legislative Council were Labor 22, Liberal 17, National 5; leaving the ALP in a minority after providing the president.

[edit] 1988

Legislative Assembly
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 1,131,750 46.55 -3.46 46 -1
  Liberal Party of Australia 986,311 40.51 -1.30 33 +2
  National Party of Australia 188,776 7.76 +0.47 9 +1
  Australian Democrats 25,611 1.05 +1.05 0 0
  Call to Australia 25,543 1.05 +1.05 0 0
  Democratic Labor Party 6,018 0.25 +0.25 0 0
  Others 67,493 2.78 +1.94 0 0
  Total 2,431,502     88  
Legislative Council
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Seats Held
  Australian Labor Party 1,164,796 48.13 +0.85 9 19
  Liberal Party of Australia 1,052,591 43.50 +2.35 10 19
  National Party of Australia 181,074 7.48 +0.81 3 6
  Call to Australia 5,363 0.22 -0.49 0 0
  Others 16,167 0.67 +0.45 0 0
  Total 2,419,991     22 44

sources:

  • Colin A Hughes & B. D. Graham, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, Australian National Univesity Press, Canberra, 1968
  • Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1965-1974, Australian National Univesity Press, Canberra, 1977
  • Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1975-1984, Australian National University Press, Rushcutters Bay, 1986
  • Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999, Federation Press, Sydney, 2002
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