Electoral results for the district of St Kilda

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of St Kilda in Victorian state elections.

Members for St Kilda

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Two members initially, one after the redistribution of 1889.

Member 1 Party Term Member 2 Party Term
  Thomas Fellows Unaligned 1856–1858   Frederick James Sargood Unaligned 1856–1857
  John Crews Unaligned 1858–1859   Henry Chapman Unaligned 1858–1859
  Sir Archibald Michie Unaligned 1859–1861   James Johnston Unaligned 1859–1864
  Kenric Brodribb Unaligned 1861–1864
  Sir Archibald Michie Unaligned 1864–1865   John Crews Unliagned 1864–1865
  Joshua Snowball Unaligned 1866–1867   Brice Bunny Unaligned 1866–1867
  Thomas Fellows Unaligned 1868–1872   Cole Aspinall Unaligned 1868–1870
  Murray Smith Unaligned 1873–1877   James Stephen Unaligned 1870–1874
  Godfrey Carter Unaligned 1877–1883   Edward Dixon Unaligned 1874–1880
  Sir Matthew Davies Unaligned 1883–1889   Joseph Harris Unaligned 1880–1889
  Sir George Turner Unaligned 1889–1901
  William Williams Liberal 1901–1902
  Robert McCutcheon Ministerialist/
Independent Liberal 		1902–1917
  Agar Wynne Unaligned 1917–1920
  Frederic Eggleston Nationalist 1920–1927
  Burnett Gray Liberal 1927–1932
  Sir Archie Michaelis United Australia Party/
Liberal Party 		1932–1952
  John Bourke Labor Party 1952–1955
  Baron Snider Liberal Party 1955–1964
  Brian Dixon Liberal Party 1964–1982
  Andrew McCutcheon Labor Party 1982–1992

Election results

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Elections in the 1980s

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1988 Victorian state election: St Kilda[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Andrew McCutcheon 11,652 49.83 −2.82
Liberal John Callanan 9,988 42.72 −4.63
Democrats Geoffrey Brooks 1,742 7.45 +7.45
Total formal votes 23,382 95.33 −1.12
Informal votes 1,146 4.67 +1.12
Turnout 24,528 87.10 −1.81
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Andrew McCutcheon 12,993 55.57 +2.92
Liberal John Callanan 10,389 44.43 −2.92
Labor hold Swing +2.92
1985 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Andrew McCutcheon 13,918 52.7 +3.6
Liberal Richard Stevenson 12,518 47.3 +4.4
Total formal votes 26,436 96.4
Informal votes 973 3.6
Turnout 27,409 88.9
Labor hold Swing +0.2
1982 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Andrew McCutcheon 11,701 50.9 +6.6
Liberal Brian Dixon 9,406 40.9 −4.0
Democrats Susanne McDougall 1,022 4.5 −1.4
Democratic Labor Daniel Condon 703 3.1 −1.9
Australia Joseph Johnson 143 0.6 +0.6
Total formal votes 22,975 95.9 +0.5
Informal votes 993 4.1 −0.5
Turnout 23,968 90.1 +2.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Andrew McCutcheon 12,431 54.1 +4.3
Liberal Brian Dixon 10,544 45.9 −4.3
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +4.3

Elections in the 1970s

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1979 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brian Dixon 10,112 44.9 −7.7
Labor David Hardy 9,977 44.3 +5.2
Democrats Douglas Davidson 1,327 5.9 +5.9
Democratic Labor John Cotter 1,125 5.0 +5.0
Total formal votes 22,541 95.4 −1.2
Informal votes 1,088 4.6 +1.2
Turnout 23,629 87.5 +1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brian Dixon 11,312 50.2 −5.9
Labor David Hardy 11,229 49.8 +5.9
Liberal hold Swing −5.9
1976 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brian Dixon 13,430 52.6 +6.2
Labor David Hardy 9,969 39.1 −5.0
Independent Peter Lake 1,042 4.1 +4.1
Independent Ronald Petersen 853 3.3 +3.3
Independent Frederick Gray 217 0.9 +0.9
Total formal votes 25,511 96.6
Informal votes 908 3.4
Turnout 26,419 86.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brian Dixon 14,304 56.1 +2.7
Labor David Hardy 11,207 43.9 −2.7
Liberal hold Swing +2.7
1973 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brian Dixon 11,974 50.4 +4.4
Labor Robin Beaumont 9,627 40.5 +0.2
Democratic Labor John Hughes 1,220 5.1 −4.4
Australia Beverley Broadbent 957 4.0 +4.0
Total formal votes 23,778 96.1 +1.1
Informal votes 975 3.9 −1.1
Turnout 24,753 89.6 −2.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brian Dixon 13,394 56.3 +0.4
Labor Robin Beaumont 10,384 43.7 −0.4
Liberal hold Swing +0.4
1970 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brian Dixon 10,318 46.0 −5.5
Labor David Bottomley 9,031 40.3 +4.3
Democratic Labor John Hughes 2,123 9.5 −2.9
Defence of Government Schools Lancelot Hutchinson 775 3.5 +3.5
Independent Neville Penton 180 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 22,427 95.0 −0.9
Informal votes 1,177 5.0 +0.9
Turnout 23,604 91.6 +2.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brian Dixon 12,541 55.9 −6.2
Labor David Bottomley 9,886 44.1 +6.2
Liberal hold Swing −6.2

Elections in the 1960s

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1967 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Brian Dixon 11,906 51.5 +2.2
Labor Brian Zouch 8,326 36.0 −1.8
Democratic Labor John Hughes 2,870 12.4 −0.5
Total formal votes 23,102 95.9
Informal votes 975 4.1
Turnout 24,077 89.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Brian Dixon 14,346 62.1 +1.8
Labor Brian Zouch 8,756 37.9 −1.8
Liberal hold Swing +1.8
1964 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Brian Dixon 7,916 48.1 +1.6
Labor Juliet Dahlitz 6,676 40.5 +1.5
Democratic Labor John Hughes 1,883 11.4 −3.1
Total formal votes 16,475 96.6 −0.1
Informal votes 571 3.4 +0.1
Turnout 17,046 91.8 +1.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Brian Dixon 9,626 58.4 0.0
Labor Juliet Dahlitz 6,849 41.6 0.0
Liberal and Country hold Swing 0.0
1961 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 7,537 46.5 −0.4
Labor Leslie Atherton 6,329 39.0 −0.1
Democratic Labor John Hughes 2,348 14.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 16,214 96.7 −0.4
Informal votes 557 3.3 +0.4
Turnout 16,771 90.3 −0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 9,466 58.4 +0.6
Labor Leslie Atherton 6,748 41.6 −0.6
Liberal and Country hold Swing +0.6

Elections in the 1950s

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1958 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 8,312 46.9
Labor Paul Fraser 6,923 39.1
Democratic Labor John Hughes 2,484 14.0
Total formal votes 17,719 97.1
Informal votes 535 2.9
Turnout 18,254 90.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 10,237 57.8
Labor Paul Fraser 7,482 42.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1955 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 7,238 44.1
Labor John Bourke 6,967 42.4
Victorian Liberal Arnold Blashki 1,755 10.7
Independent Maxwell Fisher 454 2.8
Total formal votes 16,414 96.5
Informal votes 589 3.5
Turnout 17,003 91.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Baron Snider 8,768 53.4
Labor John Bourke 7,646 46.6
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing
1952 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Bourke 10,724 54.5 +6.8
Liberal and Country Archie Michaelis 5,594 28.4 −23.9
Electoral Reform Geoffrey Kiddle 3,378 17.1 +17.1
Total formal votes 19,696 97.7 −1.4
Informal votes 469 2.3 +1.4
Turnout 20,165 93.6 +0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Bourke 11,062 56.2 +8.5
Liberal and Country Archie Michaelis 8,634 43.8 −8.5
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +8.5
1950 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Archie Michaelis 11,477 52.3 +52.3
Labor John Bourke 10,464 47.7 +5.8
Total formal votes 21,941 99.1 +0.3
Informal votes 192 0.9 −0.3
Turnout 22,133 93.3 +2.1
Liberal and Country gain from Independent Swing N/A

Elections in the 1940s

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1947 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Archie Michaelis 13,527 58.1 +28.2
Labor Bill Bourke 9,748 41.9 −2.9
Total formal votes 23,275 98.8 +1.3
Informal votes 277 1.2 −1.3
Turnout 23,552 91.2 +5.2
Independent Liberal hold Swing +7.6
1945 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Dethbridge 9,326 44.8
Ministerial Liberal Archie Michaelis 6,229 29.9
Liberal Leslie Lord 5,284 25.3
Total formal votes 20,839 97.5
Informal votes 534 2.5
Turnout 21,373 86.0
Two-party-preferred result
Ministerial Liberal Archie Michaelis 10,532 50.5
Labor George Dethbridge 10,307 49.5
Ministerial Liberal gain from Liberal Swing
1943 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Archie Michaelis 15,135 53.9 +0.6
Labor Marjorie Bennett 10,503 37.4 +37.4
Independent Ethel Pace 2,428 8.7 +8.7
Total formal votes 28,066 96.6 −1.6
Informal votes 987 3.4 +1.6
Turnout 29,053 86.4 −5.6
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1940 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Archie Michaelis 14,885 53.3 −13.4
Independent Francis Dawkins 13,060 46.7 +46.7
Total formal votes 27,945 98.2 0.0
Informal votes 504 1.8 0.0
Turnout 28,449 92.0 −0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

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1937 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Archie Michaelis 17,559 66.7 +12.1
Labor Marks Feinberg 8,783 33.3 +33.3
Total formal votes 26,342 98.2 +0.3
Informal votes 476 1.8 −0.3
Turnout 26,818 92.5 −3.8
United Australia hold Swing N/A
1935 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Archie Michaelis 13,582 54.6 −1.3
Independent Cyril Nelson 11,317 45.4 +45.4
Total formal votes 24,899 97.9 −1.1
Informal votes 546 2.1 +1.1
Turnout 25,445 96.3 +1.5
United Australia hold Swing −1.3
1932 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Archie Michaelis 13,662 55.9 +10.5
Ind. United Australia Burnett Gray 10,780 44.1 −10.5
Total formal votes 24,442 99.0 −0.2
Informal votes 237 1.0 +0.2
Turnout 24,679 94.8 +1.2
United Australia gain from Ind. United Australia Swing +10.5

Elections in the 1920s

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1929 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Australian Liberal Burnett Gray 13,253 54.6 +4.2
Nationalist Robert Morley 11,035 45.4 +16.4
Total formal votes 24,288 99.2 +2.1
Informal votes 207 0.8 −2.1
Turnout 24,495 93.6 +1.7
Australian Liberal hold Swing N/A
1927 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Australian Liberal Burnett Gray 11,227 50.4
Nationalist Frederic Eggleston 6,456 29.0
Independent Florence Johnson 4,597 20.6
Total formal votes 22,280 97.1
Informal votes 660 2.9
Turnout 22,940 91.9
Australian Liberal gain from Nationalist Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1924 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederic Eggleston unopposed
Nationalist hold Swing
1921 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederic Eggleston 10,104 74.8 +49.1
Labor Walter Gorman 3,399 25.2 +3.5
Total formal votes 13,503 99.6 +6.5
Informal votes 55 0.4 −6.5
Turnout 13,558 39.8 −15.1
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1920 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederic Eggleston 4,472 25.7
Labor Walter Gorman 3,782 21.7 −2.5
Nationalist Alban Morley 3,317 19.0
Nationalist Henry Barnet 2,859 16.4
Nationalist Albert Sculthorpe 1,621 9.3
Nationalist Anthony O'Dwyer 1,371 7.9
Total formal votes 17,422 93.1 −3.6
Informal votes 1,300 6.9 +3.6
Turnout 18,722 54.9 +6.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist Frederic Eggleston 11,065 63.5
Nationalist Alban Morley 6,357 36.5
Nationalist hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

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1917 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Agar Wynne 5,309 38.0
Nationalist John Macfarlan 5,279 37.8
Labor George McGowan 3,374 24.2 −11.3
Total formal votes 13,962 96.7 −1.7
Informal votes 470 3.3 +1.7
Turnout 14,432 48.2 +11.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist Agar Wynne 7,126 51.0
Nationalist John Macfarlan 6,836 49.0
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1914 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert McCutcheon 5,975 64.5 −1.2
Labor Robert Smart 3,287 35.5 +1.2
Total formal votes 9,262 98.4 +0.3
Informal votes 151 1.6 −0.3
Turnout 9,413 37.2 −13.2
Liberal hold Swing −1.2
1911 Victorian state election: St Kilda
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert McCutcheon 6,288 65.7 +3.6
Labor George Mead 3,285 34.3 +34.3
Total formal votes 9,573 98.1 −1.0
Informal votes 183 1.9 +1.0
Turnout 9,756 50.4 +13.5
Liberal hold Swing N/A

References

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  1. ^ Statistics for the General Election Held on Saturday, 1 October 1988. Victoria: Government Printer. 1988.
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