1925 Victorian Legislative Council election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 4 June 1925 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council. MLC were elected using preferential voting.

## Results

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### Legislative Council

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Victorian Legislative Council election, 4 June 1925[1]
Legislative Council
<< 1922–1928 >>

Enrolled voters  | 399,510  |  |
Votes cast  | 56,033  |  | Turnout | 14.0  | +0.7
Informal votes  | 847  |  | Informal  | 1.5  | −0.4
Summary of votes by party
Party  | Primary votes  | %  | Swing  | Seats
won  | Seats
held
| Nationalist | 28,708  | 52.0  | −1.8  | 11  | 22
| Country | 12,976  | 23.5  | +10.0  | 3  | 6
| Labor | 4,133  | 7.5  | −17.5  | 3  | 6
| Other  | 9,369  | 17.0  | +9.3  | 0  | 0
Total  | 55,186  |  |  | 17  | 34

## Retiring Members

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### Nationalist

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* Austin Austin MLC (South Western)
* Sir Arthur Robinson MLC (Melbourne South)

## Candidates

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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

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Bendigo | Nationalist |  | Herbert Keck |  |
East Yarra | Nationalist |  | William Edgar |  | Wilbur Anderson (Prog Lib)
Gippsland | Nationalist |  | George Davis |  |
Melbourne | Nationalist |  | Henry Cohen |  |
Melbourne East | Labor | Daniel McNamara |  |  |
Melbourne North | Labor | William Beckett |  |  |
Melbourne South | Nationalist | Richard Keane | Murray Jones
Frank Clarke* |  |
Melbourne West | Labor | Arthur Disney |  |  |
Nelson | Nationalist |  | Edwin Bath | William Hedge |
Northern | Nationalist |  |  | William Day
George Tuckett*
Alfred Wallis |
North Eastern | Country |  |  | Albert Zwar |
North Western | Country |  |  | George Goudie |
Southern | Nationalist |  | Russell Clarke | Randall Green |
South Eastern | Nationalist |  | Alfred Chandler |  |
South Western | Nationalist |  | Howard Hitchcock | John Hancock |
Wellington | Nationalist |  | Alexander Bell |  | Robert Cooke (Ind)
Western | Nationalist |  | Edward White | William Laird | William Williamson (Ind)

## See also

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* 1924 Victorian state election

## References

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1. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victorian Legislative Council election of 4 June 1925". Psephos.

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