1907 Victorian state election

Australian state election

1907 Victorian state election

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All 65 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
33 seats needed for a majority
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Leader  | Thomas Bent |  | George Prendergast
Party  | United Liberal |  | Labor
Leader since  |  |  | 1904
Leader's seat  | Brighton |  | North Melbourne
Last election  | New party |  | 17 seats
Seats won  | 51 seats  |  | 14 seats
Seat change  |  51  |  |  3
Percentage  | 51.36%  |  | 34.40%
Swing  |  51.36%  |  |  1.85%

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| Premier before election

Thomas Bent
United Liberal

| Elected Premier

Thomas Bent
United Liberal

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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.[1] The other 20 seats were uncontested.

The election was in one member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.

## Background

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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.[citation needed]

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.[2][3]

Bent formed the United Liberal Party in February 1907.[2] 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.[4]

## Results

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Legislative Assembly (FPTP)[1][4] Party  | Votes  | %  | Swing  | Seats  | Change

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| 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

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* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1907–1908

## References

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1. ^ a b "Australian Politics and Elections Database: 15 March 1907". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
2. ^ a b "1900–1919: turbulent years". Victorian Electoral Commission.
3. ^ "A Union of Farmers". The Advocate. 9 July 1904.
4. ^ a b "THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT ELECTED 15 MARCH 1907". Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.

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