1940 Victorian Legislative Council election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 15 June 1940 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, 15 June 1940[1]
Legislative Council
<< 1937–1943 >>

Enrolled voters  | 471,843  |  |
Votes cast  | 178,666  |  | Turnout | 37.9  | −8.6
Informal votes  | 2,823  |  | Informal  | 1.6  | +0.4
Summary of votes by party
Party  | Primary votes  | %  | Swing  | Seats
won  | Seats
held
| Labor | 50,349  | 28.6  | +11.4  | 4  | 7
| United Australia | 49,654  | 28.2  | −23.7  | 8  | 16
| Country | 38,244  | 21.7  | −3.2  | 5  | 11
| Other  | 37,596  | 21.3  | +15.4  | 0  | 0
Total  | 175,843  |  |  | 17  | 34

## Retiring Members

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### United Australia

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* Sir Alan Currie MLC (Nelson)
* John Jones 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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Ballarat | UAP |  | George Bolster |  |
Bendigo | UAP |  | George Lansell |  |
Doutta Galla | Labor | Paul Jones | Alfred Carter |  |
East Yarra | UAP |  | Clifden Eager |  |
Gippsland | Country |  |  | James Balfour |
Higinbotham | UAP |  | James Disney*
William Tyner |  |
Melbourne | Labor | William Beckett |  |  |
Melbourne North | Independent | Archibald Fraser |  |  | Esmond Kiernan (Ind)
Melbourne West | Labor | Pat Kennelly |  |  | Charles Beever (Ind)
Monash | UAP |  | Archibald Crofts |  |
Northern | Country |  |  | Richard Kilpatrick*
Dudley Walters |
North Eastern | Country |  |  | John Harris |
North Western | Country |  |  | Henry Pye |
Southern | UAP |  | William Angliss |  |
South Eastern | UAP |  | Cyril Isaac | Alexander Goudie |
South Western | UAP |  |  | Allan McDonald | James Guthrie (Ind)
Western | UAP |  | Marcus Saltau | Robert Rankin | Horace Holmes (Ind)

## See also

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* 1940 Victorian state election

## References

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1. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victorian Legislative Council election of 15 June 1940". Psephos.

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