1904 Victorian state election

Australian state election September 2016 June 2020 July 2019 1904 Victorian state election Victoria 1901 parliamentary no 1902 Victorian state election 1902 1907 Victorian state election 1907 All 67 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly34 seats needed for a majority yes 1904 6 1 110px Thomas Bent 1904 9966CC National Citizens Reform League Brighton 36.14 5.93% 47 seats 35 seats 12 131px Frederick Bromley 1904 Labour Carlton DC241F 32.55 14.54% 12 seats 17 seats 5 Premier Thomas Bent National Citizens Reform League Thomas Bent National Citizens Reform League The 1904 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on 1 June 1904 to elect 67 members to the state's Legislative Assembly.http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=883 Australian Politics and Elections Database: 1 June 1904 University of Western Australia 4 September 2016 1 July 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180701140317/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=883 dead It was the first election to be held in Victoria since the passing of the Constitution Act 1903The Constitution Act 1903 http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/tca1903218/ AustLII (also known as the "Constitution Reform Act"), which reduced the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 95 to 67 and removed all two-member electorates. It also created three new electorates representing public and railways officers: the Electoral province for Public Officers and Railway Officers the "Electoral district for Public Officers" and a two-member "Electoral district for Railway Officers". Members of the public service had previously not been eligible to stand as candidates without first resigning. Under these changes, they could stand while a state employee, and if successful in winning a seat, would have a leave of absence while sitting as an MP. Background Ministerialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government. Thomas Bent was elected on 16 February 1904 leader of the Commonwealth Liberal Party, replacing Premier William Irvine who went into federal politics, and went into the election as the incumbent Premier. At the June 1904 election Bent won a comfortable majority with 35 of the 67 seats, and the Labour Party became the second largest party in the Assembly with 17 seats. Results + Legislative Assembly (FPTP) Party Votes % Swing Seats Change   Reform League Ministerialists 55,426 36.14 −5.93 35 12   Labour 49,922 32.55 +14.54 17 5   Liberal Oppositionists 37,422 24.40 +6.31 12 3   Independent Ministerialists 7,554 4.93 −8.52 2 5   Independent Labour 2,108 1.37 −0.50 1 1   Independent 945 0.62 +0.62 0  Formal votes 153,377 99.03 −0.62  Informal votes 1,498 0.97 +0.62  Total 154,875 67  Registered voters / turnout 277,006 63.38 −2.03 See also Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1904–1907 References Category:1904 elections in Australia Category:Elections in Victoria (state) Category:1900s in Victoria (state) Category:June 1904 in Oceania