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.[citation needed]
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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