1934 Victorian Legislative Council election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 9 June 1934 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLC were elected using preferential voting.

## Results

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### Legislative Council

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Victorian Legislative Council election, 9 June 1934[1]
Legislative Council
<< 1931–1937 >>

Enrolled voters  | 469,395  |  |
Votes cast  | 47,375  |  | Turnout | 10.1  | −9.8
Informal votes  | 799  |  | Informal  | 1.7  | +1.1
Summary of votes by party
Party  | Primary votes  | %  | Swing  | Seats
won  | Seats
held
| United Australia | 21,743  | 46.7  | −18.1  | 10  | 22
| Labor | 8,211  | 17.7  | −0.9  | 1  | 3
| Country | 4,844  | 10.4  | +7.9  | 3  | 6
| Other  | 11,778  | 25.3  | +11.2  | 3  | 3
Total  | 46,576  |  |  | 17  | 34

## Retiring Members

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### United Australia

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* Frederick Brawn MLC (Wellington)
* Horace Richardson MLC (South Western)

## 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  | UAP candidates  | Country candidates  | Other candidates

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Bendigo | UAP |  | George Lansell |  |
East Yarra | UAP |  | Clifden Eager |  |
Gippsland | UAP |  | Martin McGregor |  |
Melbourne | UAP |  | Herbert Smith |  |
Melbourne East | Labor | William Beckett | Henry Hall |  |
Melbourne North | Labor |  |  |  | Esmond Kiernan (Ind)
Melbourne South | UAP |  | Harold Cohen |  |
Melbourne West | Labor | William Walsh | James Gray |  | Robert Williams (Ind)
Nelson | UAP |  | Alan Currie | George Hucker |
Northern | Country |  |  | Richard Kilpatrick |
North Eastern | Country |  |  | John Harris |
North Western | Country |  |  | Henry Pye |
Southern | UAP |  | William Angliss |  |
South Eastern | UAP |  | William Tyner | Lionel Stark |
South Western | UAP |  | James Gill |  | John Jones (Ind UAP)
Wellington | UAP |  | George Bolster |  | Robert Ramsay (Ind)
Western | UAP |  | Marcus Saltau |  |

## See also

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* 1935 Victorian state election

## References

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1. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victorian Legislative Council election of 9 June 1934". Psephos.

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