Electoral results for the district of Ouyen

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

Members for Ouyen

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Member Party Term
  Harold Glowrey Country Progressive 1927–1932
  Albert Bussau Country 1932–1938
  Keith Dodgshun Country 1938–1945

Election results

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Elections in the 1940s

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1943 Victorian state election: Ouyen[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Keith Dodgshun 5,211 67.8 −5.2
Labor Frederick Watson 1,823 23.7 +23.7
Independent Robert Johnstone 650 8.5 −18.5
Total formal votes 7,684 98.9 +0.1
Informal votes 85 1.1 −0.1
Turnout 7,769 87.4 −5.9
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1940 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Keith Dodgshun 6,786 73.0 −27.0
Independent Robert Johnstone 2,505 27.0 +27.0
Total formal votes 9,291 98.8
Informal votes 110 1.2
Turnout 9,401 93.3
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

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1938 Ouyen state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Keith Dodgshun unopposed
Country hold Swing
1937 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Albert Bussau unopposed
Country hold Swing
1935 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Albert Bussau 7,289 72.2 +20.0
Labor Wilhelm Kruse 2,804 27.8 +27.8
Total formal votes 10,093 99.2 0.0
Informal votes 81 0.8 0.0
Turnout 10,174 92.0 −1.8
Country hold Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Albert Bussau 5,192 52.2 −47.8
Independent Country Harold Glowrey 4,748 47.8 +47.8
Total formal votes 9,940 99.2
Informal votes 82 0.8
Turnout 10,022 93.8
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1920s

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1929 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Progressive Harold Glowrey unopposed
Country Progressive hold Swing
1927 Victorian state election: Ouyen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Progressive Harold Glowrey 3,529 39.6
Country Henry Pickering 3,350 37.6
Labor Francis Williamson 2,032 22.8
Total formal votes 8,911 97.9
Informal votes 194 2.1
Turnout 9,105 86.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Progressive Harold Glowrey 4,908 55.1
Country Henry Pickering 4,003 44.9
Country Progressive gain from Country Swing

References

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  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.