1907 Victorian state election
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The 1907 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Friday, 15 March 1907 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.[1] The other 20 seats were uncontested.
The election was in one member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.
Background[edit]
Ministerialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government.
The National Citizens' Reform League, led by Thomas Bent, had disbanded shortly after the 1904 state election, leading to the majority of Liberals and Conservatives sitting separately again.[2][3]
Bent formed the United Liberal Party in February 1907.[2] Without Liberal Ministerialists and Liberal Oppositionists competing against each other, three-sided contests were largely eliminated, causing Labor to lose the seats of Ballarat and Geelong.[4]
Results[edit]
| Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||
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| United Liberal | 59,785 | 51.36 | +51.36 | 49 |  49
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| Labor | 40,044 | 34.40 | +1.85 | 14 |  3
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| Independent Ministerialists | 11,029 | 9.47 | +4.55 | 1 | 1
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| Independent Labor | 2,795 | 2.40 | +1.03 | 1 | 1
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| Independent | 2,754 | 2.37 | +1.75 | 0 | 
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| Formal votes | 116,407 | 99.41 | |||||
| Informal votes | 0.59 | ||||||
| Total | 65 | ||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 261,080 | 61.27 | –9.70 | ||||
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Australian Politics and Elections Database: 15 March 1907". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ a b "1900-1919: turbulent years". Victorian Electoral Commission.
- ^ "A Union of Farmers". The Advocate. 9 July 1904.
- ^ a b "THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT ELECTED 15 MARCH 1907". Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.
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