Electoral results for the district of Maryborough (Victoria)
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Maryborough in Victorian state elections.
Members for Maryborough
[edit]First incarnation 1859–1877, two members | |||
---|---|---|---|
Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term |
Richard D. Ireland | Oct 1859 – Dec 1860[1] | Michael Prendergast | Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 |
Nathaniel Levi | Jan 1861[2] – Dec 1865 | Richard Davies Ireland | Aug 1861[c] |
George S. Evans | Oct 1861 – Aug 1864 | ||
James Mason | Nov 1864 – Dec 1865 | ||
Robert Bowman | Feb 1866 – Mar 1870 | James McKean | Feb 1866 – Jan 1871 |
Duncan Gillies | Mar 1870 – Apr 1877 | William Fraser | Apr 1871 – Apr 1877 |
- [c] Davies won both Maryborough and Villiers and Heytesbury at the August 1861 general elections,[3] he resigned from Maryborough.
Second incarnation 1889–1927, one member | |||
---|---|---|---|
Member | Party | Term | |
Alfred Outtrim | Unaligned | 1889–1902 | |
Frederick Field | Unaligned | 1902–1904 | |
Alfred Outtrim | Labor | 1904–1916 | |
National Labor | 1916–1917 | ||
Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
George Frost | Labor | 1920–1927 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | George Frost | 3,207 | 68.3 | +12.3 | |
Independent Liberal | Thomas Richards | 1,488 | 31.7 | +31.7 | |
Total formal votes | 4,695 | 99.4 | −0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 31 | 0.6 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,726 | 74.3 | −2.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | George Frost | 2,837 | 56.0 | +7.4 | |
Nationalist | James Holland | 2,229 | 44.0 | +9.5 | |
Total formal votes | 5,066 | 99.6 | +5.6 | ||
Informal votes | 20 | 0.4 | −5.6 | ||
Turnout | 5,086 | 76.3 | +2.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | George Frost | 2,319 | 48.6 | +7.8 | |
Nationalist | Alfred Outtrim | 1,649 | 34.5 | -5.4 | |
Victorian Farmers | Robert Laidlaw | 806 | 16.9 | +16.9 | |
Total formal votes | 4,774 | 94.0 | −4.0 | ||
Informal votes | 305 | 6.0 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 5,079 | 73.6 | +6.4 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | George Frost | 2,466 | 51.6 | +8.2 | |
Nationalist | Alfred Outtrim | 2,308 | 48.4 | -8.2 | |
Labor gain from Nationalist | Swing | +8.2 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Thomas Jude | 1,929 | 40.8 | -21.8 | |
National Labor | Alfred Outtrim | 1,886 | 39.9 | +39.9 | |
Nationalist | Robert Laidlaw | 908 | 19.2 | -18.2 | |
Total formal votes | 4,723 | 98.0 | −0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 99 | 2.0 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 4,822 | 67.2 | +7.0 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
National Labor | Alfred Outtrim | 2,672 | 56.6 | +56.6 | |
Labor | Thomas Jude | 2,051 | 43.4 | -19.2 | |
National Labor gain from Labor | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Alfred Outtrim | 2,930 | 62.6 | +6.7 | |
Liberal | James Holland | 1,748 | 37.4 | -6.7 | |
Total formal votes | 4,678 | 98.3 | −0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 83 | 1.7 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,761 | 60.2 | −13.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Alfred Outtrim | 3,245 | 55.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Bennett | 2,562 | 44.1 | +44.1 | |
Total formal votes | 5,807 | 98.9 | |||
Informal votes | 63 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 5,870 | 73.9 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
References
[edit]- ^ "Mr. Ireland's Defeat". Bendigo Advertiser. 13 December 1860.
- ^ "The Victorian Parliament". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 January 1861. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "The Victorian Parliament". The Argus. Melbourne: Trove. 31 August 1861. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ 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.