1907 Victorian state election

Australian state election June 2020 July 2019 1907 Victorian state election Victoria 1901 parliamentary no 1904 Victorian state election 1904 1908 Victorian state election 1908 All 65 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly33 seats needed for a majority yes 1907 3 15 120px Thomas Bent 8EB5D1 United Liberal Brighton 51.36% 51.36% New party 51 seats 51 135px George Prendergast 1904 Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) North Melbourne 34.40% 1.85% 17 seats 14 seats 3 Premier Thomas Bent United Liberal Thomas Bent United Liberal The 1907 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Friday, 15 March 1907 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=884 Australian Politics and Elections Database: 15 March 1907 University of Western Australia 27 June 2015 The other 20 seats were uncontested. The election was in one member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting. 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.May 2024 The National Citizens' Reform League, led by Thomas Bent, had disbanded shortly after the 1904 state election, leading to the majority of Liberals and Conservatives sitting separately again.1900–1919: turbulent years https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/voting/learn-to-vote/history-of-elections-in-victoria/turbulent-years Victorian Electoral CommissionA Union of Farmers https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169875067 The Advocate 9 July 1904 en Bent formed the United Liberal Party in February 1907. Without Liberal Ministerialists and Liberal Oppositionists competing against each other, three-sided contests were largely eliminated, causing Labor to lose the seats of Ballarat and Geelong.THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT ELECTED 15 MARCH 1907 http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/states/vic/historic/1907assembly.txt Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive Results + Legislative Assembly (FPTP) Party Votes % Swing Seats Change   United Liberal 59,785 51.36 +51.36 49 49   Labor 40,044 34.40 +1.85 14 3   Independent Ministerialists 11,029 9.47 +4.55 1 1   Independent Labor 2,795 2.40 +1.03 1 1   Independent 2,754 2.37 +1.75 0  Formal votes 116,407 99.41  Informal votes 0.59  Total 65  Registered voters / turnout 261,080 61.27 −9.70 See also Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1907–1908 References Category:1907 elections in Australia Category:Elections in Victoria (state) Category:1900s in Victoria (state) Category:March 1907 in Australia