Electoral results for the district of Dalhousie

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Dalhousie in Victorian state elections.

Members for Dalhousie

First incarnation 1859–1889
Member Term
  Peter Snodgrass Oct. 1859  – Aug. 1864
  George John Sands Nov. 1864  – July 1867
  Charles Duffy Aug. 1867  – Mar. 1874
  John Gavan Duffy May 1874  – Feb. 1886
  George John Sands Mar. 1886  – Mar. 1887
  John Gavan Duffy June 1887# – Mar. 1889
Second incarnation 1904–1927
Member Party Term
  Reginald Argyle Unaligned 1904–1914
  Allan Cameron Liberal 1914–1917
  Nationalist 1917–1923
  Reg Pollard Labor 1924#–1927

      # = by-election

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1924 Victorian state election: Dalhousie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Pollard 2,232 40.8 +40.8
Nationalist Angus McNab 1,796 32.9 −67.1
Country Gerald McKenna 1,438 26.3 +26.3
Total formal votes 5,466 99.4
Informal votes 36 0.6
Turnout 5,502 82.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Reg Pollard 2,857 52.3 +52.3
Nationalist Angus McNab 2,609 47.7 −52.3
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing N/A
1924 Dalhousie state by-election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Angus McNab 1,568 34.2
Labor Reg Pollard 1,522 33.3
Country Gerald McKenna 1,023 22.3
Independent John McCarthy 475 10.4
Total formal votes 4,588 98.7
Informal votes 62 1.3
Turnout 4,650 71.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Reg Pollard 2,339 51.0
Nationalist Angus McNab 2,249 49.0
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing N/A
1921 Victorian state election: Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Allan Cameron unopposed
Nationalist hold Swing
1920 Victorian state election: Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Allan Cameron 2,482 47.0 +10.9
Victorian Farmers Thomas Paterson 1,927 36.5 +36.5
Ind. Nationalist Robert Mitchell 875 16.5 +16.5
Total formal votes 5,284 95.0 −2.5
Informal votes 280 5.0 +2.5
Turnout 5,564 78.9 +4.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist Allan Cameron 2,857 54.1
Victorian Farmers Thomas Paterson 2,427 45.9
Nationalist hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Reginald Argyle 2,232 42.7 −4.4
Nationalist Allan Cameron 1,888 36.1 −16.8
Labor Joseph O'Connor 868 16.6 +16.6
Nationalist Alexander Wilson 244 4.7 +4.7
Total formal votes 5,232 97.5 −0.4
Informal votes 136 2.5 +0.4
Turnout 5,368 74.7 +2.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist Allan Cameron 2,708 51.8 −1.1
Nationalist Reginald Argyle 2,524 48.2 +1.1
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1914 Victorian state election: Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Allan Cameron 2,770 52.9 +52.9
Liberal Reginald Argyle 2,465 47.1 −4.2
Total formal votes 5,235 97.9 −1.4
Informal votes 112 2.1 +1.4
Turnout 5,347 71.8 −5.9
Independent gain from Liberal Swing N/A
1911 Victorian state election: Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reginald Argyle 3,010 51.3 +0.9
Independent John Duffy 1,615 27.5 −22.1
Labor Richard Taafe 1,239 21.1 +21.1
Total formal votes 5,864 98.7 –0.6
Informal votes 75 1.3 +0.6
Turnout 5,939 77.7 +1.9
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Dalhousie By-Flection". Kilmore Free Press (MORNING ed.). Kilmore, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 7 February 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 11 October 2013.