Electoral results for the district of Waranga
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Waranga in Victorian state elections.
Members for Waranga
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
John Morrissey | Unaligned | 1904–1907 | |
John Walter Mason | Unaligned | 1907–1908 | |
Martin Cussen | Liberal | 1908–1911 | |
John Gordon | Liberal | 1911–1917 | |
Nationalist | 1917–1927 | ||
Ernest Coyle | Nationalist | 1927–1931 | |
UAP | 1931–1933 | ||
Country | 1933–1943 | ||
Wollaston Heily | Country | 1943–1945 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Wollaston Heily | 4,144 | 57.9 | −12.1 | |
Independent | Edward Hill | 3,011 | 42.1 | 42.1 | |
Total formal votes | 7,155 | 99.3 | 0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 47 | 0.7 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 7,202 | 83.4 | −3.7 | ||
Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Ernest Coyle | 5,185 | 70.0 | −30.0 | |
Independent | Patrick Finnigan | 2,227 | 30.0 | 30.0 | |
Total formal votes | 7,412 | 99.0 | |||
Informal votes | 78 | 1.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,490 | 87.1 | |||
Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Ernest Coyle | unopposed | |||
Country hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Ernest Coyle | unopposed | |||
Country hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Ernest Coyle | 5,824 | 64.4 | 21.2 | |
Independent | William Cochrane | 1,854 | 20.5 | 20.5 | |
United Australia | David Thomas | 1,370 | 15.1 | −41.7 | |
Total formal votes | 9,048 | 98.9 | 0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 100 | 1.1 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 9,148 | 95.5 | 1.1 | ||
Country gain from United Australia | Swing | N/A |
- Coyle was elected as a UAP member for Waranga in the 1932 election, but joined the Country party in 1933.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Ernest Coyle | 4,987 | 56.8 | 8.2 | |
Country | John McEwen | 3,799 | 43.2 | 24.6 | |
Total formal votes | 8,588 | 98.8 | 0.0 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.2 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 8,890 | 94.4 | 0.2 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Ernest Coyle | 4,176 | 48.6 | 7.6 | |
Labor | John Minogue | 2,809 | 32.7 | −5.3 | |
Country | William Pook | 929 | 10.8 | −9.7 | |
Country | Edward Buckland | 674 | 7.8 | 7.8 | |
Total formal votes | 8,588 | 98.8 | 0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.2 | −0.7 | ||
Turnout | 8,690 | 94.2 | 3.0 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Gerald Honan | 3,176 | 38.0 | ||
Nationalist | Ernest Coyle | 2,322 | 27.7 | ||
Country | John McKee | 1,747 | 20.5 | ||
Nationalist | Henry Thomas | 1,122 | 13.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,367 | 98.1 | |||
Informal votes | 161 | 1.9 | |||
Turnout | 8,528 | 91.2 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Ernest Coyle | 4,518 | 54.0 | ||
Labor | Gerald Honan | 3,849 | 46.0 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationalist | John Gordon | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationalist | John Gordon | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | John Gordon | 3,102 | 66.6 | 0.9 | |
Labor | Thomas McKendrick | 1,554 | 33.4 | −0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 4,656 | 93.5 | −2.4 | ||
Informal votes | 324 | 6.5 | 2.4 | ||
Turnout | 4,980 | 70.5 | 7.4 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | 0.9 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | John Gordon | 2,811 | 65.7 | −8.0 | |
Labor | Leon Villiers | 1,465 | 34.3 | 8.0 | |
Total formal votes | 4,276 | 95.9 | −2.1 | ||
Informal votes | 183 | 4.1 | 2.1 | ||
Turnout | 4,459 | 63.1 | −4.5 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing | −8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Gordon | 3,442 | 73.7 | 23.6 | |
Labor | Daniel Nagle | 1,229 | 26.3 | 26.3 | |
Total formal votes | 4,671 | 98.0 | −1.0 | ||
Informal votes | 98 | 2.0 | 1.0 | ||
Turnout | 4,769 | 67.6 | −12.3 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Gordon | 2,845 | 50.1 | 24.4 | |
Independent | Henry Thomas | 2,829 | 49.9 | 29.9 | |
Total formal votes | 5,674 | 99.0 | −0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 57 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,731 | 79.9 | 7.8 | ||
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.