1943 Victorian state election

none April 2022 1943 Victorian state election Victoria 1901 parliamentary no 1940 Victorian state election 1940 1945 Victorian state election 1945 51 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly33 seats needed for a majority yes 1943 6 12 Albert Dunstan (cropped).jpg 130 130 170 0 0 center Albert Dunstan 14 March 1935 United Country Party (Australia) Korong and Eaglehawk 14.39% 0.23 22 seats 25 seats 3 John_Cain_1954.jpg 180 130 170 32 24 center John Cain 18 October 1937 Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) Northcote 36.13% 2.96 22 seats 22 seats 0 TomHollway.jpg 140 130 170 0 10 center Thomas Hollway 3 December 1940 United Australia uap vic Ballarat 23.07% 12.34 16 seats 13 seats 3 Premier Albert Dunstan United Country Party (Australia) Albert Dunstan United Country Party (Australia) The 1943 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 12 June 1943 to elect 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. Background Country Party unity At the time of the election, the Country Party was in the process of repairing a split which had taken place in December 1937 after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch of the party. The splinter group which supported McEwen had formed the Liberal Country Party on 30 March 1938, which contested the 1940 state election as a separate party. By April 1943, the United Country Party and the Liberal Country Party had formed a joint executive, which had unanimously agreed to reunite the parties. Members of the LCP at the time of the election were endorsed and counted as Victorian Country Party candidates separately from the United Country Party, but the unity agreements meant that their seats were counted for Dunstan's UCP. Results Legislative Assembly Results of the 1943 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) Victorian state election, 12 June 1943Election held on 12 June 1943, Australian Politics and Elections Database (University of Western Australia).Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968 (0708102700). Legislative Assembly Victorian state election 1940 1945 1,015,750 883,679 87.00 −6.41 22,876 2.59 +1.03 Labor VIC 311,051 36.13 +2.96 22 ±0 UAP 198,582 23.07 −12.34 13 −3 yes United Country 112,164 13.03 −1.13 18 −4 Communist 38,802 4.51 +4.13 0 ±0 yes Victorian Country 11,738 1.36 −0.98 7 +6 Independent 188,466 21.89 +7.36 5 +1 860,803 65 |} Notes: Fourteen seats were uncontested at this election, and were retained by the incumbent parties: Labor (7): Bendigo, Brunswick, Dundas, Flemington, Geelong, Northcote, Wonthaggi. Victorian Country (6): Gippsland East, Goulburn Valley, Gunbower, Lowan, Mornington, Upper Goulburn UAP (1): Kew See also Candidates of the 1943 Victorian state election References Category:1943 elections in Australia Category:Elections in Victoria (state) Category:1940s in Victoria (state) Category:June 1943 in Australia Category:History of Australia