Electoral results for the district of Goulburn (Victoria)
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Goulburn in Victorian state elections.
Members for Goulburn
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Joseph Smith | Labor | 1945–1947 | |
Philip Grimwade | Liberal | 1947–1950 | |
Joseph Smith | Labor | 1950–1955 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1950s
[edit]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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Joseph Smith | 6,476 | 49.9 | +4.8 | |
Liberal and Country | Philip Grimwade | 4,873 | 37.5 | +7.0 | |
Country | William Hoddinott | 1,637 | 12.6 | −11.8 | |
Total formal votes | 12,986 | 99.6 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 57 | 0.4 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 13,043 | 94.7 | +0.8 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Joseph Smith | 6,774 | 52.2 | +5.5 | |
Liberal and Country | Philip Grimwade | 6,212 | 47.8 | −5.5 | |
Labor gain from Liberal and Country | Swing | +5.5 |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Joseph Smith | 5,632 | 45.1 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | Philip Grimwade | 3,811 | 30.5 | +8.8 | |
Country | Cyril Davy | 3,045 | 24.4 | +8.4 | |
Total formal votes | 12,488 | 99.2 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 101 | 0.8 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 12,589 | 93.9 | +6.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Philip Grimwade | 6,655 | 53.3 | +5.2 | |
Labor | Joseph Smith | 5,833 | 46.7 | −5.2 | |
Liberal gain from Labor | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Joseph Smith | 4,970 | 45.5 | ||
Liberal | Philip Grimwade | 2,374 | 21.7 | ||
Independent Country | Edwin Mackrell | 1,822 | 16.7 | ||
Country | Cyril Davy | 1,748 | 16.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 10,914 | 98.9 | |||
Informal votes | 118 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 11,032 | 87.2 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Joseph Smith | 5,664 | 51.9 | ||
Liberal | Phillip Grimwade | 5,250 | 48.1 | ||
Labor gain from Country | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1975). Voting for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 070811332X.