Electoral results for the district of Wangaratta and Ovens

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in Victorian state elections.

Members for Wangaratta and Ovens

Member Party Term
  John Bowser Country 1927–1929
  Lot Diffey Country 1929–1945

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1943 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 6,478 66.5 −7.3
Labor Charles McKissack 3,263 33.5 +33.5
Total formal votes 9,741 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 108 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 9,849 87.0 −5.6
Country hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 7,700 73.8 −26.2
Liberal Country Rupert Whalley 2,727 26.2 +26.2
Total formal votes 10,427 98.7
Informal votes 141 1.3
Turnout 10,568 92.6
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey unopposed
Country hold Swing
1935 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey 5,601 53.6 −46.4
Labor Paul Jones 4,853 46.4 +46.4
Total formal votes 10,454 99.1
Informal votes 93 0.9
Turnout 10,547 94.1
Country hold Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Lot Diffey unopposed
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Walker 3,428 38.3 +38.3
Country Lot Diffey 2,821 31.6 −30.8
Country Progressive William Higgins 1,375 15.4 +15.4
Independent Country Percival Inchbold 1,313 14.7 +14.7
Total formal votes 8,937 98.7 +1.9
Informal votes 114 1.3 −1.9
Turnout 9,051 95.1 +3.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country Lot Diffey 4,869 54.5 +1.3
Labor Clive Walker 4,068 45.5 +45.5
Country hold Swing N/A
1927 Victorian state election: Wangaratta and Ovens
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country John Bowser 3,221 38.8
Australian Liberal William Higgins 3,116 37.6
Country Lot Diffey 1,953 23.6
Total formal votes 8,290 96.8
Informal votes 271 3.2
Turnout 8,561 92.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country John Bowser 4,409 53.2
Australian Liberal William Higgins 3,881 46.8
Country hold Swing

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.
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