Electoral results for the district of Grenville

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

Members for Grenville

Two members initially, one from 1904.

Member 1	Term	Member 2 (until 1904)	Term
Robert Gillespie	Oct 1859 – Jul  1861	Richard Henry Lock	Oct 1859 – Jul  1861
Robert Gillespie	Aug 1861 – Mar 1862	Alfred Arthur O'Connor	Aug 1861 – Aug 1864
Mark Pope[b]	Mar 1862 – Dec 1865	Thomas Randall	Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
Henry Henty	Feb 1866 – Dec 1867	Sir Francis Murphy	Feb 1866 – Jan 1871
Thomas Russell	Mar 1868 – Jan 1873
		William Clarke	Apr 1871 – Apr 1877
John Montgomery[b]	May 1873 – Mar 1874
Mark Pope	May 1874 – Jul  1874 [d]
Richard Henry Lock	Aug 1874 – Apr 1877
John Bird	May 1877 – Feb 1880	David Davies	May 1877 – Jun 1894
Alexander Young	May 1880 – Sep 1894
George Russell[b]	July 1894 – Apr 1900	David Kerr	Oct 1894 – Sep 1897
		Michael Stapleton	Oct 1897 – Nov 1899
James Sadler[b]	June 1900 – Aug 1902	David Kerr[b]	Dec 1899 – May 1904
Austin Austin	Oct 1902 – May 1904

Single Member District 1904–1927
Member		Party	Term
	Charles McGrath	Labor	1904–1913
	John Chatham[b]	Labor	1913–1916
		Independent	1916–1917
	David Gibson	VFU	1917–1921
	Arthur Hughes	Labor	1921–1927

^[b] = elected in a by-election

^[d] = died in office

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1924 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Hughes	1,735	54.8	+10.2
	Country	David Gibson	792	25.0	+0.7
	Nationalist	George Burchett	638	20.2	-10.1
Total formal votes			3,165	98.5	-0.5
Informal votes			47	1.5	+0.5
Turnout			3,212	75.5	+0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Arthur Hughes		56.8	+1.7
	Country	David Gibson		43.2	+43.2
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.7

• Two party preferred vote was estimated.

1921 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Hughes	1,593	44.6	-2.1
	Nationalist	George Turner	1,111	31.1	+31.1
	Victorian Farmers	David Gibson	868	24.3	-29.0
Total formal votes			3,572	99.0	+3.3
Informal votes			36	1.0	-3.3
Turnout			3,608	74.9	-6.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Arthur Hughes	1,968	55.1	+8.4
	Nationalist	George Turner	1,604	44.9	+44.9
	Labor gain from Victorian Farmers		Swing	N/A

1920 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Victorian Farmers	David Gibson	2,048	53.3	+25.2
	Labor	James Scullin	1,792	46.7	+4.3
Total formal votes			3,627	95.7	-2.4
Informal votes			174	4.3	+2.4
Turnout			4,014	81.4	+13.6
	Victorian Farmers hold		Swing	+0.6

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Frederick Hower	1,538	42.4	-16.3
	Victorian Farmers	David Gibson	1,021	28.1	+28.1
	Nationalist	Henry Vernon	816	22.5	-18.8
	Nationalist	George Meudell	252	7.0	+7.0
Total formal votes			3,627	98.1	+0.2
Informal votes			72	1.9	-0.2
Turnout			3,699	67.8	-1.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Victorian Farmers	David Gibson	1,911	52.7
	Labor	Frederick Hower	1,716	47.3
	Victorian Farmers gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

1914 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Chatham	2,496	58.7	-5.9
	Liberal	Nicholas Howell	1,758	41.3	+5.9
Total formal votes			4,254	97.9	-0.7
Informal votes			92	2.1	+0.7
Turnout			4,346	69.1	-2.9
	Labor hold		Swing	-5.9

1911 Victorian state election: Grenville

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Charles McGrath	3,168	64.6	-7.4
	Liberal	David Poynton	1,738	35.4	+7.4
Total formal votes			4,906	98.6	-0.2
Informal votes			71	1.4	+0.2
Turnout			4,977	72.0	+8.8
	Labor hold		Swing	-7.4