1928 Victorian Legislative Council election

April 2022 June 2020 Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 2 June 1928 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council. MLCs were elected using preferential voting. Results Legislative Council Victorian Legislative Council election, 2 June 1928http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/states/vic/historic/1928council.txt Victorian Legislative Council election of 2 June 1928 Psephos Carr Adam Legislative Council Victorian Legislative Council election 1925 1931 yes 444,278 85,372 19.2 +5.2 1,338 1.6 +0.1 Nationalist 45,644 54.3 +2.3 11 22 Country VIC 17,699 21.1 −1.4 2 5 Country Progressive 7,438 8.9 +8.9 1 1 Labor VIC 3,438 4.1 –3.4 3 6 Others 9,815 11.6 −5.4 0 0 84,034 17 34 |} Retiring Members Joseph Sternberg MLC (Nationalist, Bendigo) had resigned some months prior to the election, but no by-election had been held. Nationalist Theodore Beggs MLC (Nelson) James Merritt MLC (East Yarra) Thomas Payne MLC (Melbourne South) Country Progressive William Crockett MLC (North Western) Candidates Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used. Province Held by Labor candidates Nationalist candidates Country candidates Other candidates  Bendigo Nationalist George Lansell James Curnow (Ind) Alfred Wallis (Ind)East Yarra Nationalist Robert Menzies George Swinburne* Gippsland Nationalist Martin McGregor Thomas Anderson Melbourne Nationalist Herbert Smith Melbourne East Labor John Jones Melbourne North Labor Esmond Kiernan Melbourne South Nationalist Hector Bell Norman Falkiner* Frederick Hughes Edgar Morton Edward Reynolds Melbourne West Labor Robert Williams Nelson Nationalist Alan Currie Northern Country Richard Abbott Robert Gordon Richard Kilpatrick* North Eastern Country John Harris Albert Heaney (CPP)North Western Country Robert Elliott William McCann (CPP)Southern Nationalist William Angliss William Macleod (Ind)South Eastern Nationalist William Tyner* Harold Wilkinson South Western Nationalist Horace Richardson* Julius Solomon Wellington Nationalist Frederick Brawn Western Nationalist Marcus Saltau See also 1929 Victorian state election References Category:1928 elections in Australia Category:Elections in Victoria (state) Category:1920s in Victoria (state) Category:June 1928 in Oceania