Results of the 1952 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly)

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Victorian state election, 6 December 1952[1][2]
Legislative Assembly
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Enrolled voters 1,119,486
Votes cast 1,047,671 Turnout 93.58 −0.82
Informal votes 18,991 Informal 1.81 +0.67
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 504,773 49.07 +3.78 37 +13
  Liberal and Country 255,685 24.85 −15.84 11 −16
  Electoral Reform League 98,641 9.59 +9.59 4 +4
  Country 85,843 8.34 −2.30 12 −1
  Independent 71,068 6.90 +4.04 1 ±0
Total 1,028,680     65  
Two-party-preferred
  Labor 734,668 56.7 +6.3
  Liberal and Country 560,521 43.3 –6.3

This is a list of electoral district results for the Victorian 1952 election.

Results by electoral district[edit]

Albert Park[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Albert Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Keith Sutton 12,985 65.7 +14.4
Liberal and Country Desmond Byrne 6,770 34.3 -14.4
Total formal votes 19,755 97.9 -2.0
Informal votes 417 2.1 +2.0
Turnout 20,172 90.5 -0.2
Labor hold Swing +14.4

Allandale[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Allandale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Russell White 7,620 51.1 +17.0
Labor Patrick Denigan 7,277 48.9 +5.8
Total formal votes 14,897 98.8 -0.5
Informal votes 183 1.2 +0.5
Turnout 15,080 94.7 -1.0
Country hold Swing -4.2

Ballarat[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Ballarat
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Sheehan 11,042 54.0 +7.2
Liberal and Country William Roff 9,424 46.0 -7.2
Total formal votes 20,466 99.0 -0.2
Informal votes 211 1.0 +0.2
Turnout 20,677 96.2 -0.6
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +7.2

Barwon[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Barwon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Thomas Maltby 8,483 51.7 -48.3
Labor Charles Plummer 7,915 48.3 +48.3
Total formal votes 16,398 99.0
Informal votes 172 1.0
Turnout 16,570 93.8
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Benalla[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Benalla
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Frederick Cook unopposed
Country hold Swing

Benambra[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Benambra
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Tom Mitchell 7,241 57.3 -16.7
Labor Geoffrey Holland 5,386 42.7 +42.7
Total formal votes 12,627 98.9 +1.0
Informal votes 139 1.1 -1.0
Turnout 12,766 90.9 -1.3
Country hold Swing N/A

Bendigo[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Bendigo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Galvin unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Borung[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Wilfred Mibus 8,174 61.9 +5.5
Labor Lionel Reid 5,030 38.1 +38.1
Total formal votes 13,204 99.3 +0.2
Informal votes 99 0.7 -0.2
Turnout 13,303 95.6 -0.5
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Box Hill[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Box Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bob Gray 17,661 52.2 +7.6
Liberal and Country George Reid 12,987 38.3 -17.1
Independent Thomas Mullett 3,218 9.5 +9.5
Total formal votes 33,866 98.4 -0.8
Informal votes 560 1.6 +0.8
Turnout 34,426 93.4 -1.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bob Gray 18,305 54.0 +9.4
Liberal and Country George Reid 15,561 46.0 -9.4
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +9.4

Brighton[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Brighton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Electoral Reform Ray Tovell 12,167 48.2 +48.2
Independent Allistair Bruce 5,786 22.9 +22.9
Liberal and Country Raymond Trickey 4,874 19.3 -80.7
Independent Grace Stratton 1,244 4.9 +4.9
Independent Finlay Julyan 1,174 4.7 +4.7
Total formal votes 25,245 97.6
Informal votes 631 2.4
Turnout 25,876 94.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Electoral Reform Ray Tovell 15,729 62.3 +62.3
Independent Allistair Bruce 9,516 37.7 +37.7
Electoral Reform gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Brunswick[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Brunswick
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Peter Randles unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Camberwell[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Camberwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Florence Rodan 8,664 32.9 -2.0
Liberal and Country Robert Whately 7,084 26.9 -38.2
Electoral Reform Vernon Wilcox 5,564 21.1 +21.1
Independent Reginald Cooper 5,046 19.1 +19.1
Total formal votes 26,358 97.8 -1.5
Informal votes 599 2.2 +1.5
Turnout 26,957 94.2 +0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Robert Whately 15,472 58.7 -6.4
Labor Florence Rodan 10,886 41.3 +6.4
Liberal and Country hold Swing -6.4

Carlton[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Carlton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Barry 18,152 91.9 +17.6
Communist John Prescott 1,597 8.1 +8.1
Total formal votes 26,358 97.8 -0.4
Informal votes 599 2.2 +0.4
Turnout 26,957 94.2 +0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Caulfield[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Caulfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Electoral Reform Alexander Dennett 12,492 62.6 +62.6
Independent Labor Robert Flanagan 7,273 37.4 +37.4
Total formal votes 19,965 97.8 -1.3
Informal votes 443 2.2 +1.3
Turnout 20,408 91.6 -0.1
Electoral Reform gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Clifton Hill[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph O'Carroll unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Coburg[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Coburg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Labor Charlie Mutton 12,617 53.6 +20.8
Labor Kevin Hayes 10,927 46.4 +7.4
Total formal votes 23,544 98.3 -0.7
Informal votes 404 1.7 +0.7
Turnout 23,948 94.1 -1.6
Progressive Labor hold Swing -4.4

Collingwood[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Towers unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Dandenong[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Dandenong
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Les Coates 23,350 55.4 +5.6
Electoral Reform William Dawnay-Mould 14,609 34.7 +34.7
Independent Liberal Walter Peterson 3,439 8.2 +8.2
Communist Arthur O'Donoghue 742 1.8 +1.8
Total formal votes 42,120 97.9 -1.2
Informal votes 888 2.1 +1.2
Turnout 43,028 94.1 -0.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Les Coates 24,362 57.8 +8.0
Electoral Reform William Dawnay-Mould 17,778 42.2 +42.2
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Dundas[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Dundas
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bob McClure 8,165 55.1 +13.1
Liberal and Country William McDonald 6,646 44.9 -2.5
Total formal votes 14,811 99.2 0.0
Informal votes 123 0.8 0.0
Turnout 14,934 96.9 +0.9
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +11.1

Elsternwick[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Elsternwick
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Maynes 8,453 42.4 +3.2
Electoral Reform John Don 8,389 42.1 +42.1
Independent Andrew Sinclair 3,075 15.4 +15.4
Total formal votes 19,917 98.2 -1.1
Informal votes 370 1.8 +1.1
Turnout 20,287 94.5 +1.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Electoral Reform John Don 11,152 55.5 +55.5
Labor John Maynes 8,865 44.5 +5.3
Electoral Reform gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Essendon[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Essendon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Fewster 19,808 64.2 +15.1
Liberal and Country Kenneth Wheeler 8,279 26.8 -19.4
Henry George Justice Lancelot Hutchinson 2,765 9.0 +9.0
Total formal votes 30,852 98.4 -0.6
Informal votes 485 1.6 +0.6
Turnout 31,337 94.4 -0.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor George Fewster 20,085 65.1 +13.8
Liberal and Country Kenneth Wheeler 10,767 34.9 -13.8
Labor hold Swing +13.8

Evelyn[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Evelyn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Phillip Connell 8,465 48.8 +14.4
Liberal and Country Roland Leckie 6,589 38.0 -15.8
Electoral Reform Lindsay Gown 1,477 8.5 +8.5
Independent Lyndhurst Mullett 822 4.7 +4.7
Total formal votes 17,353 98.3 -0.5
Informal votes 304 1.7 +0.5
Turnout 17,657 92.8 -0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Phillip Connell 9,044 52.1 +7.1
Liberal Roland Leckie 8,309 47.9 -7.1
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +7.1

Footscray[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Footscray
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Holland 18,969 93.3 +20.6
Communist Francis Johnson 1,362 6.7 +1.1
Total formal votes 20,331 96.3 -2.1
Informal votes 781 3.7 +2.1
Turnout 21,112 90.3 -4.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Geelong[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Geelong
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Dunn 13,684 69.8 +13.9
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 5,929 30.2 -13.9
Total formal votes 19,613 98.9 -0.7
Informal votes 215 1.1 +0.7
Turnout 19,828 93.3 -1.8
Labor hold Swing +13.9

Gippsland East[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Gippsland East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Albert Lind unopposed
Country hold Swing

Gippsland North[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Gippsland North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Hector Stoddart 8,840 52.5 +4.2
Country Bill Fulton 7,992 47.5 +16.1
Total formal votes 16,832 99.0 -0.1
Informal votes 169 1.0 +0.1
Turnout 17,001 92.4 +0.1
Labor gain from Country Swing +2.9

Gippsland South[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Gippsland South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Herbert Hyland 9,899 55.1 -21.5
Labor Sydney Crofts 8,071 44.9 +44.9
Total formal votes 17,970 99.0 -1.7
Informal votes 169 1.0 +1.7
Turnout 18,150 93.8 -1.3
Country hold Swing N/A

Gippsland West[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Gippsland West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Leslie Cochrane 6,989 45.3 +3.6
Labor Thomas Holland 5,574 36.2 +36.2
Liberal and Country Mac Steward 2,857 18.5 -22.6
Total formal votes 15,420 98.6 +0.9
Informal votes 215 1.4 -0.9
Turnout 15,635 94.2 +0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Country Leslie Cochrane 9,293 60.3 +6.9
Labor Thomas Holland 6,127 39.7 +39.7
Country hold Swing N/A

Glen Iris[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Glen Iris
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Electoral Reform Thomas Hollway 15,152 56.4 +56.4
Liberal and Country Les Norman 10,727 39.9 -26.6
Communist Ian Turner 971 3.6 +3.6
Total formal votes 26,850 97.9 -1.4
Informal votes 585 2.1 +1.4
Turnout 27,435 94.7 0.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Electoral Reform Thomas Hollway 15,638 58.2 +58.2
Liberal and Country Les Norman 11,212 41.8 -24.7
Electoral Reform gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Goulburn[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Goulburn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph Smith 8,478 62.5 +12.6
Liberal and Country John Roberts 5,087 37.5 0.0
Total formal votes 13,565 99.0 -0.6
Informal votes 133 1.0 +0.6
Turnout 13,698 93.6 -1.1
Labor hold Swing +10.3

Grant[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Grant
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Leslie D'Arcy 10,678 60.3 +14.8
Liberal and Country Alexander Fraser 6,498 36.7 +5.2
Independent Thomas Fynmore 541 3.0 +3.0
Total formal votes 17,717 98.6 -0.4
Informal votes 251 1.4 +0.4
Turnout 17,968 92.9 +0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Leslie D'Arcy 10,948 61.8 +12.6
Liberal and Country Alexander Fraser 6,169 38.2 -12.6
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +12.6

Hampden[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Hampden
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert Balcombe 6,703 48.0 +5.2
Liberal and Country Henry Bolte 6,358 45.6 -11.6
Independent Keith McGarvie 891 6.4 +6.4
Total formal votes 13,952 98.6 -0.5
Informal votes 192 1.4 +0.5
Turnout 14,144 94.7 -0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Henry Bolte 7,012 50.3 -6.9
Labor Robert Balcombe 6,940 49.7 +6.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing -6.9

Hawthorn[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Hawthorn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles Murphy 9,948 48.7 +6.8
Liberal and Country Les Tyack 6,813 33.3 -6.5
Electoral Reform Charles Calderwood 3,677 18.0 +18.0
Total formal votes 20,438 98.0 -1.1
Informal votes 409 2.0 +1.1
Turnout 20,847 94.2 +0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Charles Murphy 10,940 53.5 +7.8
Liberal and Country Les Tyack 9,498 46.5 -7.8
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +7.8

Ivanhoe[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Ivanhoe
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Michael Lucy 14,800 44.0 +2.4
Independent Reginald Leonard 9,058 26.9 +26.9
Liberal and Country Frank Block 8,424 25.0 -33.4
Electoral Reform Harcourt Bell 1,372 4.1 +4.1
Total formal votes 33,654 98.2 -1.1
Informal votes 606 1.8 +1.1
Turnout 34,260 94.8 +0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Michael Lucy 18,069 53.5 +11.9
Liberal and Country Frank Block 15,585 46.5 -11.9
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +11.9

Kew[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Kew
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Arthur Rylah 7,780 37.4 -62.6
Labor Norman Williams 6,696 32.2 +32.2
Electoral Reform John Eddy 6,303 30.3 +30.3
Total formal votes 20,779 98.0
Informal votes 418 2.0
Turnout 21,197 93.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Arthur Rylah 13,076 62.9 -37.1
Labor Norman Williams 7,703 37.1 +37.1
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Korong[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Korong
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Keith Turnbull 4,359 36.2 -0.4
Labor Campbell Turnbull 3,892 32.4 -0.3
Country Frank Coghill 3,371 28.0 -2.7
Electoral Reform Wallace Lunn 409 3.4 +3.4
Total formal votes 12,031 99.0 -0.3
Informal votes 125 1.0 +0.3
Turnout 12,156 95.2 -0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Keith Turnbull 7,332 60.9 +0.5
Labor Campbell Turnbull 4,699 39.1 -0.5
Liberal and Country hold Swing +0.5

Malvern[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Malvern
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Trevor Oldham 7,081 36.5 -21.4
Labor Francis Gaffy 6,589 33.9 +0.8
Electoral Reform Roy Schilling 3,956 20.4 +20.4
Independent Mascotte Brown 1,788 9.2 +0.1
Total formal votes 19,414 97.6 -1.0
Informal votes 475 2.4 +1.0
Turnout 19,889 92.0 -0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Trevor Oldham 11,487 59.2 -5.9
Labor Francis Gaffy 7,927 40.8 +5.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing -5.9

Melbourne[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Hayes unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Mentone[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George White 20,870 62.5 +11.4
Liberal and Country Charles Bridgford 12,538 37.5 -11.4
Total formal votes 33,408 98.6 -0.7
Informal votes 467 1.4 +0.7
Turnout 33,875 94.0 -0.5
Labor hold Swing +11.4

Mernda[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Mernda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edmund Morrissey 8,694 50.9 -9.8
Liberal Arthur Ireland 8,389 49.1 +9.8
Total formal votes 17,083 98.5 +3.2
Informal votes 259 1.5 -3.2
Turnout 17,342 92.5 -0.2
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +9.8

Midlands[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Midlands
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Stoneham unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Mildura[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Mildura
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alan Lind 6,860 51.1 +3.9
Country Nathaniel Barclay 6,573 48.9 +12.1
Total formal votes 13,433 99.0 +0.1
Informal votes 133 1.0 -0.1
Turnout 13,566 95.4 +0.8
Labor gain from Country Swing +1.6

Moonee Ponds[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Moonee Ponds
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Samuel Merrifield unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Mornington[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Mornington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Norman Parker 7,970 41.2 +13.6
Liberal and Country William Leggatt 7,162 37.0 -22.5
Electoral Reform Gerard Hirst 2,918 15.1 +15.1
Independent Morton Moyes 1,317 6.8 +6.8
Total formal votes 19,367 98.2 -0.8
Informal votes 350 1.8 +0.8
Turnout 19,717 93.0 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country William Leggatt 10,858 56.1 -13.7
Labor Norman Parker 8,509 43.9 +13.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing -13.7

Murray Valley[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Murray Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Findlay 6,846 44.8 +7.5
Country George Moss 6,617 43.3 +4.1
Liberal and Country James Mosbey 1,820 11.9 -11.6
Total formal votes 15,283 98.9 -0.3
Informal votes 171 1.1 +0.3
Turnout 15,454 93.9 -1.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country George Moss 7,996 52.3 -6.9
Labor William Findlay 7,287 47.7 +6.9
Country hold Swing -6.9

Northcote[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Northcote
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Cain unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Oakleigh[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Oakleigh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Val Doube 17,308 65.5 +19.8
Liberal and Country Charles Laming 9,135 34.5 +0.1
Total formal votes 26,443 98.5 -0.6
Informal votes 405 1.5 +0.6
Turnout 26,848 94.1 -1.4
Labor hold Swing +14.4

Polwarth[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Polwarth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Edward Guye 8,340 57.6 0.0
Labor Clair Larson 6,142 42.4 +9.9
Total formal votes 14,482 99.0 -0.5
Informal votes 146 1.0 +0.5
Turnout 14,628 95.3 -0.6
Liberal and Country hold Swing -8.9

Portland[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Portland
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert Holt 9,543 64.8 +13.5
Liberal and Country Howard Turner 5,190 35.2 -3.0
Total formal votes 14,733 99.2 -0.3
Informal votes 117 0.8 +0.3
Turnout 14,850 96.1 -0.1
Labor hold Swing +12.5

Port Melbourne[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stan Corrigan 19,942 91.1 +14.9
Communist Albert Bull 1,939 8.9 +3.8
Total formal votes 21,881 96.8 -1.2
Informal votes 716 3.2 +1.2
Turnout 22,597 91.2 -2.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Prahran[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Prahran
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert Pettiona 13,009 61.6 +6.0
Liberal and Country Charles Gawith 8,114 38.4 -6.0
Total formal votes 21,123 98.2 -0.8
Informal votes 380 1.8 +0.8
Turnout 21,503 92.2 -2.0
Labor hold Swing +6.0

Preston[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Preston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Ruthven unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Rainbow[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Rainbow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Keith Dodgshun unopposed
Country hold Swing

Richmond[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Richmond
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Scully 18,474 90.2 +15.7
Communist Kenneth Miller 2,016 9.8 +3.4
Total formal votes 20,490 96.2 -1.4
Informal votes 814 3.8 +1.4
Turnout 21,304 93.4 -2.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Ripon[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Ripon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ernie Morton 8,726 59.9 +10.9
Liberal and Country Rutherford Guthrie 5,846 40.1 +0.6
Total formal votes 14,572 99.1 -0.5
Informal votes 133 0.9 +0.5
Turnout 14,705 95.5 -0.3
Labor hold Swing +8.4

Rodney[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Rodney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Brose 8,827 65.7 +8.4
Liberal and Country Morton Garner 4,615 34.3 -8.4
Total formal votes 13,442 96.5 -1.6
Informal votes 483 3.5 +1.6
Turnout 13,925 95.0 +0.1
Country hold Swing +8.4

St Kilda[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Bourke 10,724 54.5 +6.8
Liberal and Country Archie Michaelis 5,594 28.4 -23.9
Electoral Reform Geoffrey Kiddle 3,378 17.1 +17.1
Total formal votes 19,696 97.7 -1.4
Informal votes 469 2.3 +1.4
Turnout 20,165 93.6 +0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Bourke 11,062 56.2 +8.5
Liberal and Country Archie Michaelis 8,634 43.8 -8.5
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +8.5

Scoresby[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Scoresby
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Knox 11,045 56.4 -18.1
Labor Henry Moore 8,535 43.6 +43.6
Total formal votes 19,580 98.5 +0.3
Informal votes 288 1.5 -0.3
Turnout 19,868 92.6 -0.5
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Shepparton[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Shepparton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country John McDonald 7,367 46.4 +4.7
Labor Gordon Anderson 6,231 39.2 +4.9
Liberal and Country Ian McIntosh 2,293 14.4 -9.7
Total formal votes 15,891 98.6 -0.5
Informal votes 217 1.4 +0.5
Turnout 16,108 95.0 +0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country John McDonald 9,124 57.4 -4.1
Labor Gordon Anderson 6,767 42.6 +4.1
Country hold Swing -4.1

Sunshine[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Sunshine
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ernie Shepherd unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Swan Hill[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 5,171 39.1 -9.2
Electoral Reform John Hipworth 4,082 30.9 +30.9
Independent Duncan Douglas 3,970 30.0 +30.0
Total formal votes 13,223 97.9 -1.2
Informal votes 278 2.1 +1.2
Turnout 13,501 94.3 -0.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 9,124 57.4 +9.1
Electoral Reform John Hipworth 5,504 41.6 +41.6
Country gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A

Toorak[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Toorak
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Henry Peagram 8,925 43.7 +1.4
Liberal and Country Horace Petty 7,424 36.4 -21.3
Electoral Reform Mabel Brookes 4,068 19.9 +19.9
Total formal votes 20,417 98.3 -0.9
Informal votes 343 1.7 +0.9
Turnout 20,760 90.7 -4.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Horace Petty 10,425 51.1 -6.6
Labor Henry Peagram 9,992 48.9 +6.6
Liberal and Country hold Swing -6.6

Warrnambool[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Warrnambool
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Malcolm Gladman 7,256 51.1 +9.3
Liberal and Country Ronald Mack 6,957 48.9 +14.8
Total formal votes 14,213 99.4 0.0
Informal votes 87 0.6 0.0
Turnout 14,300 96.1 -0.3
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +2.1

Williamstown[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Williamstown
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Lemmon 16,673 64.9 -0.3
Independent Ernest Jackson 5,472 21.3 +21.3
Communist Alexander Dobbin 3,559 13.8 +4.9
Total formal votes 25,704 98.0 -0.8
Informal votes 525 2.0 +0.8
Turnout 26,229 94.0 -1.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor John Lemmon 18,453 71.8 -1.4
Independent Ernest Jackson 7,251 28.2 +28.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Wonthaggi[edit]

1952 Victorian state election: Wonthaggi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country William Buckingham 8,176 56.4 +15.4
Labor Percy Vagg 5,843 40.3 +5.1
Communist Robert Hamilton 484 3.3 +3.3
Total formal votes 14,503 98.6 -0.9
Informal votes 207 1.4 +0.9
Turnout 14,710 94.9 -0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country William Buckingham 8,224 56.7 -6.4
Labor Percy Vagg 6,279 43.3 +6.4
Country hold Swing -6.4

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Election held on 6 December 1952, Australian Politics and Elections Database (University of Western Australia).
  2. ^ Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968 (ISBN 0708102700).
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