1940 Victorian Legislative Council election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 15 June 1940 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLC were elected using preferential voting.

Results

Legislative Council

Victorian Legislative Council election, 15 June 1940[1]
Legislative Council
<< 1937–1943 >>

Enrolled voters 471,843
Votes cast 178,666 Turnout 37.9 −8.6
Informal votes 2,823 Informal 1.6 +0.4
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats
won		 Seats
held
  Labor 50,349 28.6 +11.4 4 7
  United Australia 49,654 28.2 −23.7 8 16
  Country 38,244 21.7 −3.2 5 11
  Other 37,596 21.3 +15.4 0 0
Total 175,843     17 34

Retiring Members

United Australia

Candidates

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Province Held by Labor candidates UAP candidates Country candidates Other candidates
 
BallaratUAPGeorge Bolster
BendigoUAPGeorge Lansell
Doutta GallaLaborPaul JonesAlfred Carter
East YarraUAPClifden Eager
GippslandCountryJames Balfour
HiginbothamUAPJames Disney*
William Tyner
MelbourneLaborWilliam Beckett
Melbourne NorthIndependentArchibald FraserEsmond Kiernan (Ind)
Melbourne WestLaborPat KennellyCharles Beever (Ind)
MonashUAPArchibald Crofts
NorthernCountryRichard Kilpatrick*
Dudley Walters
North EasternCountryJohn Harris
North WesternCountryHenry Pye
SouthernUAPWilliam Angliss
South EasternUAPCyril IsaacAlexander Goudie
South WesternUAPAllan McDonaldJames Guthrie (Ind)
WesternUAPMarcus SaltauRobert RankinHorace Holmes (Ind)
gollark: I figure that making new companies able to scale up more easily is probably a good thing.
gollark: Intellectual property is just really weird anyway. Probably important in some form, but really weird.
gollark: In the US's internet market for example the government just throws money at the big internet companies, and actually *creates* monopolies on internet connections in some cities.
gollark: The laws of most countries are complicated enough now that nobody can actually know and understand all of them, or even the ones which directly affect them. Also, I'm responding kind of slowly because my internet service is bad right now and randomly dropping out every few minutes.
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See also

References
  1. Carr, Adam. "Victorian Legislative Council election of 15 June 1940". Psephos.
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