1909 Brighton state by-election

1928 Brighton state by-election March 2024 Victoria parliamentary no 1908 Victorian state election 1908 1911 Victorian state election 1911 8 October 1909 Electoral district of Brighton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly 150x150px Oswald Snowball Liberal 8DB4D2 3,362 60.3% Commonwealth Liberal Party IND 150x150px John Hamilton Independent Liberal 8DB4D2 1,170 31.8 Australian Labor Party ALP 150x150px Daniel McNamara Labor EF0011 439 7.9 MP Thomas Bent Liberal Oswald Snowball Liberal The 1909 Brighton state by-election was held on 8 October 1909 to elect the next member for Brighton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the death of incumbent MP and former premier Thomas Bent. Bent, who served as premier from February 1904 until January 1909, died on 17 September 1909 at his home in Bay Street, Brighton. He had been unopposed at the previous election in 1908.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10734753 Trove, National Library of Australia Death of Sir Thomas Bent The Argus 18 September 1909 Prior to the election, the United Liberal Party (which Bent had led in 1908) had merged with the Liberal Party.Parliament in Exile: Aspects of the Victorian Parliament at the Exhibition Building, 1901 to 1927 https://www.aspg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6-Isaacs-PARLIAMENT-IN-EXILE.pdf Australasian Study of Parliament Group This led to the ULP splitting and the Liberal Party forming. The by-election was won by Liberal candidate Oswald Snowball. Other candidates were Independent Liberal John Hamilton and future Labor MLC Daniel McNamara. This was the first state election in Victoria in which women could vote. Results 1909 Brighton state by-electionTHE TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/states/vic/historic/1908assembly.txt Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive Oswald Snowball commonwealth liberal 3,362 60.3 −39.7 John Hamilton independent commonwealth liberal 1,170 31.8 +31.8 Daniel McNamara labor vic 439 7.9 +7.9 3,571 99.94 N/A 35 0.06 N/A 3,606 72.1 N/A commonwealth liberal References Brighton Category:Victorian state by-elections Brighton