Electoral results for the district of Mentone

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

Members for Mentone

Member Party Term
  George White Labor 1945 – 1947
  Harry Drew Liberal 1947 – 1949
  Liberal and Country 1949 – 1950
  George White Labor 1950 – 1955
  Labor (Anti-Communist) 1955
  Edward Meagher Liberal and Country 1955 – 1965
  Liberal 1965 – 1967
  Bill Templeton Liberal 1967 – 1985
  Peter Spyker Labor 1985 – 1992

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1988 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Peter Spyker 12,971 48.58 −3.39
Liberal Maxwell Read 11,976 44.85 −3.18
Democrats Sarah Austin 1,240 4.64 +4.64
Independent John Murray 515 1.93 +1.93
Total formal votes 26,702 97.00 −0.43
Informal votes 825 3.00 +0.43
Turnout 27,527 93.02 −0.66
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Peter Spyker 13,989 52.40 +0.43
Liberal Maxwell Read 12,707 47.60 −0.43
Labor hold Swing +0.43
1985 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Peter Spyker 14,406 52.0 +0.1
Liberal Bill Templeton 13,315 48.0 −4.9
Total formal votes 27,721 97.4
Informal votes 731 2.6
Turnout 28,452 93.7
Labor gain from Liberal Swing −1.7
  • After the redistribution, Mentone became a notional Labor seat. Sitting Liberal member Bill Templeton did not manage to win it back.
1982 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bill Templeton 13,480 51.2 −0.2
Labor David Tindal 12,855 48.8 +6.2
Total formal votes 26,335 97.9 +0.1
Informal votes 557 2.1 −0.1
Turnout 26,892 94.1 +1.1
Liberal hold Swing −5.3

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bill Templeton 13,491 51.4 −4.5
Labor Barry Hirt 11,190 42.6 +4.7
Democratic Labor Desmond Burke 1,589 6.0 −0.2
Total formal votes 26,270 97.8 −0.4
Informal votes 590 2.2 +0.4
Turnout 26,860 93.0 +0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Templeton 14,851 56.5 −4.4
Labor Barry Hirt 11,419 43.5 +4.4
Liberal hold Swing −4.4
1976 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bill Templeton 14,777 55.9 +6.6
Labor Barry Hirt 10,021 37.9 −3.6
Democratic Labor Desmond Burke 1,650 6.2 −0.7
Total formal votes 26,448 98.2
Informal votes 490 1.8
Turnout 26,938 92.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Templeton 16,097 60.9 +4.8
Labor Barry Hirt 10,351 39.1 −4.8
Liberal hold Swing +4.8
1973 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bill Templeton 12,633 46.0 +4.7
Labor Ian Cathie 12,189 44.4 +0.8
Democratic Labor Daniel Condon 1,699 6.2 −8.9
Defence of Government Schools Ian Black 946 3.4 +3.4
Total formal votes 27,467 97.8 +0.1
Informal votes 621 2.2 −0.1
Turnout 28,088 92.7 −1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Templeton 14,345 52.2 −3.0
Labor Ian Cathie 13,122 47.8 +3.0
Liberal hold Swing −3.0
1970 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Henry Woodley 10,772 43.6 +2.0
Liberal Bill Templeton 10,207 41.3 −0.6
Democratic Labor Kathleen Andrews 3,730 15.1 +1.2
Total formal votes 24,709 97.7 +0.4
Informal votes 593 2.3 −0.4
Turnout 25,302 94.0 −0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Templeton 13,631 55.2 −0.1
Labor Henry Woodley 11,078 44.8 +0.1
Liberal hold Swing −0.1

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Bill Templeton 9,691 41.9 +4.3
Labor Nola Barber 9,612 41.6 −6.5
Democratic Labor George White 3,212 13.9 −0.4
Independent Clifford Baragwanath 612 2.7 +2.7
Total formal votes 23,127 97.3
Informal votes 635 2.7
Turnout 23,762 94.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Templeton 12,789 55.3 +4.6
Labor Nola Barber 10,338 44.7 −4.6
Liberal hold Swing +4.6
1964 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Harold Blair 11,643 44.8 +3.4
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 10,689 41.2 −0.1
Democratic Labor George White 3,635 14.0 −3.3
Total formal votes 25,967 98.4 +0.3
Informal votes 430 1.6 −0.3
Turnout 26,397 94.1 −0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 14,006 53.9 −3.4
Labor Harold Blair 11,961 46.1 +3.4
Liberal and Country hold Swing −3.4
1961 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Nola Barber 10,019 41.4 +1.6
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 10,010 41.3 −2.2
Democratic Labor George White 4,190 17.3 +0.6
Total formal votes 24,219 98.1 −0.3
Informal votes 475 1.9 +0.3
Turnout 24,694 94.4 −0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 13,870 57.3 +0.2
Labor Nola Barber 10,349 42.7 −0.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing +0.2

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 9,596 43.5
Labor Alfred O'Connor 8,776 39.8
Democratic Labor George White 3,687 16.7
Total formal votes 22,059 98.4
Informal votes 364 1.6
Turnout 22,423 94.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 12,601 57.1
Labor Alfred O'Connor 9,458 42.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1955 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 10,198 42.8
Labor Alfred O'Connor 8,259 34.7
Labor (A-C) George White 5,356 22.5
Total formal votes 23,813 98.0
Informal votes 475 2.0
Turnout 24,288 94.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Edward Meagher 13,982 58.7
Labor Alfred O'Connor 9,431 41.3
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing
1952 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George White 20,870 62.5 +11.4
Liberal and Country Charles Bridgford 12,538 37.5 −11.4
Total formal votes 33,408 98.6 −0.7
Informal votes 467 1.4 +0.7
Turnout 33,875 94.0 −0.5
Labor hold Swing +11.4
1950 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George White 15,046 51.4 +4.0
Liberal and Country Harry Drew 14,231 48.6 −4.0
Total formal votes 29,277 99.3 0.0
Informal votes 218 0.7 0.0
Turnout 29,495 94.5 +0.4
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +4.0

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Harry Drew 13,940 52.6 +16.9
Labor George White 12,549 47.4 −2.5
Total formal votes 26,489 99.3 +0.9
Informal votes 192 0.7 −0.9
Turnout 26,681 94.1 +5.3
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +6.5
1945 Victorian state election: Mentone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George White 10,768 49.9
Liberal John Warren 7,708 35.7
Independent Robert Roberts 3,095 14.4
Total formal votes 21,571 98.4
Informal votes 346 1.6
Turnout 21,917 88.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor George White 11,633 53.9
Liberal John Warren 9,938 46.1
Labor gain from Liberal Swing

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