Electoral_results_for_the_district_of_Ovens
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Ovens in Victorian state elections.
One member initially, two from the increase in members of 1859.
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Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term |
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Daniel Cameron [lower-alpha 1] | Nov. 1856 – Mar. 1857 | ||
John Wood[2] | Apr. 1857[lower-alpha 2] – July 1861 | ||
Alexander Keefer[3] | Oct. 1859 – Mar. 1860 | ||
John Donald[4] | Mar. 1860[lower-alpha 2] – July 1861 | ||
William Charles Weekes[5] | Aug. 1861 – Aug. 1864 | Peter Wright | Aug. 1861 – Aug. 1864 |
George Verney Smith[3] | Nov. 1864 – Apr. 1877 | George Kerferd[6] | Nov. 1864 – Jan. 1886 |
George Billson[7] | May 1877 – June 1880 | ||
William Zincke[8] | July 1880 – Feb. 1883 | ||
George Billson[7] | Feb. 1883 – Feb. 1886 | ||
Joseph Ferguson[9] | Mar. 1886 – Mar. 1889 | Ferguson Tuthill[10] | Jan. 1886[lower-alpha 2] – Mar. 1889 |
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More information Single Member District 1889–1927, Member ...
Single Member District 1889–1927 | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Joseph Ferguson | Unaligned | 1889–1894 | |
J. A. Isaacs | Unaligned | 1894–1902 | |
Thomas Ashworth | Unaligned | 1902–1904 | |
Alfred Billson | Unaligned | 1904–1916 | |
Nationalist | 1916–1924 | ||
Liberal | 1924–1927 | ||
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- Daniel Cameron was also member for Ovens in the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council December 1855 to March 1856.[1]
Elections in the 1920s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Australian Liberal | Alfred Billson | 1,986 | 56.4 | +56.4 | |
Labor | John Price | 1,533 | 43.6 | +43.6 | |
Total formal votes | 3,519 | 98.8 | |||
Informal votes | 43 | 1.2 | |||
Turnout | 3,562 | 73.0 | |||
Australian Liberal gain from Nationalist | Swing | N/A | |||
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- Alfred Billson was the sitting Nationalist MP for Ovens.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Alfred Billson | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Alfred Billson | unopposed | |||
Nationalist hold | Swing | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Alfred Billson | 1,580 | 46.7 | -5.7 | |
Labor | William Gribble | 1,026 | 30.3 | -17.3 | |
Nationalist | Erle Evans | 776 | 22.9 | +22.9 | |
Total formal votes | 3,382 | 95.9 | -2.0 | ||
Informal votes | 146 | 4.1 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 3,528 | 58.9 | -7.3 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Alfred Billson | 2,022 | 59.8 | +7.4 | |
Labor | William Gribble | 1,360 | 40.2 | -7.4 | |
Nationalist hold | Swing | +7.4 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alfred Billson | 2,293 | 52.4 | -8.3 | |
Labor | Christopher Bennett | 2,083 | 47.6 | +8.3 | |
Total formal votes | 4,376 | 97.9 | +2.2 | ||
Informal votes | 93 | 2.1 | -2.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,469 | 66.2 | +1.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -8.3 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alfred Billson | 2,599 | 60.7 | -0.9 | |
Labor | Christopher Bennett | 1,680 | 39.3 | +0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 4,279 | 95.7 | -3.6 | ||
Informal votes | 191 | 4.3 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,470 | 64.3 | +5.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.9 | |||
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- "Daniel Cameron". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- Eastwood, Jill. "Wood, John Dennistoun (1829–1914)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- "Alexander Keefer". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- "John Donald". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- "William Charles Weekes". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- Beever, Margot. "Kerferd, George Briscoe (1831–1889)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- "George Billson". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- "William Lawrence Zincke". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- "Joseph Ferguson". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- "Ferguson Hendley Tuthill". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- 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.