Electoral results for the district of Geelong East

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Geelong East in Victorian state elections.

Members for Geelong East

First incarnation (1859–1877, 2 members)
Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
James Cowie	1859  – 1860	Alexander Thomson	1859 – 1861
Augustus Greeves	1860[b] – 1861
Butler Cole Aspinall	1861  – 1864	John Richardson	1861 – 1876
George Cunningham	1864  – 1867
Charles Kernot	1868  – 1871
John Masters Garratt	1871  – 1877	Charles Kernot	1876[b] – 1877

Kernot went on to represent the re-created Geelong from 1877.

Second incarnation (1976–1985)
Member		Party	Term
	Phil Gude	Liberal	1976–1979
	Graham Ernst	Labor	1979–1985

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1982 Victorian state election: Geelong East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Graham Ernst	13,726	53.6	+5.9
	Liberal	Raymond Carey	9,977	39.0	-5.6
	Democrats	Robert Mann	1,059	4.1	-0.6
	Democratic Labor	James Jordan	855	3.3	+0.2
Total formal votes			25,617	97.9	0.0
Informal votes			561	2.1	0.0
Turnout			26,178	94.0	-0.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Graham Ernst	14,421	56.3	+4.6
	Liberal	Raymond Carey	11,196	43.7	-4.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.6

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Geelong East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Graham Ernst	11,713	47.7	-0.8
	Liberal	Phil Gude	10,953	44.6	-6.9
	Democrats	Reginald Swetten	1,153	4.7	+4.7
	Democratic Labor	Roderick Jordan	752	3.1	+3.1
Total formal votes			24,571	97.9	+0.9
Informal votes			534	2.1	-0.9
Turnout			25,105	94.5	+0.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Graham Ernst	12,702	51.7	+3.2
	Liberal	Phil Gude	11,869	48.3	-3.2
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.2

1976 Victorian state election: Geelong East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Phil Gude	11,637	51.5	+6.6
	Labor	Dennis O'Brien	10,971	48.5	+3.1
Total formal votes			22,608	97.0
Informal votes			691	3.0
Turnout			23,299	93.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.4