Electoral results for the district of Swan Hill

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Swan Hill in Victorian state elections.

Members for Swan Hill

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Member Party Term
  John Gray Ministerialist 1904–1917
  Independent
  Commonwealth Liberal
  Nationalist
  Percy Stewart Farmers Union 1917–1919
  Francis Old Farmers Union 1919–1945
  Country
  John Hipworth Country 1945–1949
  Liberal 1949–1952
  Harold Stirling Country 1952–1968
  Henry Broad Country 1968–1973
  Alan Wood Liberal 1973–1983
  Barry Steggall National 1983–2002
  Peter Walsh National 2002–2014

Election results

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Elections in the 2010s

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2010 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Peter Walsh 22,086 75.04 +27.61
Labor Sharon Garrick 4,802 16.32 −2.19
Greens Morgana Russell 1,326 4.51 +0.57
Family First Garion Pearse 1,219 4.14 +0.81
Total formal votes 29,433 95.33 +0.00
Informal votes 1,441 4.67 +0.00
Turnout 30,874 93.35 −0.42
Two-party-preferred result
National Peter Walsh 23,343 79.33 +5.93
Labor Sharon Garrick 6,081 20.67 −5.93
National hold Swing +5.93

Elections in the 2000s

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2006 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Peter Walsh 14,302 47.4 +12.5
Liberal Suellen Tomamichel 7,541 25.0 −1.6
Labor Glenn Morrison 5,582 18.5 −7.9
Greens Simon Roberts 1,189 3.9 −1.3
Family First Martin Jones 1,004 3.3 +3.3
Citizens Electoral Council Trudy Campbell 534 1.8 +1.8
Total formal votes 30,152 95.3 −1.5
Informal votes 1,476 4.7 +1.5
Turnout 31,628 93.8
Two-party-preferred result
National Peter Walsh 22,152 73.4 +9.2
Labor Glenn Morrison 8,029 26.6 −9.2
National hold Swing +9.2
2002 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Peter Walsh 11,066 34.9 −5.8
Liberal Suellen Tomamichel 8,438 26.6 +18.7
Labor Graeme Hill 8,384 26.4 +4.4
Independent Rob Sonogan 2,217 7.0 +7.0
Greens Jacquie Kelly 1,635 5.2 +5.2
Total formal votes 31,740 96.8 +0.2
Informal votes 1,038 3.2 −0.2
Turnout 32,778 94.6
Two-party-preferred result
National Peter Walsh 20,362 64.2 +2.2
Labor Graeme Hill 11,378 35.8 −2.2
National hold Swing +2.2

Elections in the 1990s

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1999 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 12,378 45.2 −13.8
Independent Carl Ditterich 6,192 22.6 +22.6
Labor Dallas Williams 5,511 20.1 +2.7
Independent Bill Maher 1,435 5.2 +5.2
One Nation Bill Croft 1,383 5.1 +5.1
Independent Gerrit Schorel 257 0.9 +0.9
Independent Leigh Bonney 219 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 27,375 96.3 −2.0
Informal votes 1,066 3.7 +2.0
Turnout 28,441 94.5
Two-party-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 16,864 61.4 −7.6
Labor Dallas Williams 10,619 38.6 +7.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 14,450 52.8 −16.2
Independent Carl Ditterich 12,925 47.2 +47.2
National hold Swing −16.2
1996 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 17,007 59.0 −16.4
Independent Tom Bowles 6,270 21.8 +21.8
Labor Vera Alcock 5,027 17.4 +0.6
Natural Law Chris Hadzilias 505 1.8 +1.8
Total formal votes 28,809 98.3 +0.7
Informal votes 509 1.7 −0.7
Turnout 29,318 95.2
Two-party-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 19,782 69.0 −10.4
Labor Vera Alcock 8,908 31.0 +10.4
National hold Swing −10.4
1992 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 22,361 75.4 +16.3
Labor Vera Alcock 4,981 16.8 −3.4
Independent Geoff Burnside 2,306 7.8 +7.8
Total formal votes 29,648 97.6 −0.6
Informal votes 731 2.4 +0.6
Turnout 30,379 96.3
Two-party-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 23,551 79.4 +1.9
Labor Vera Alcock 6,092 20.6 −1.9
National hold Swing +1.9

Elections in the 1980s

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1988 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 15,539 60.74 +2.38
Labor Ronald Stanton 5,132 20.06 −0.64
Liberal Daphne Wilkins 4,912 19.20 −1.74
Total formal votes 25,583 98.20 −0.29
Informal votes 468 1.80 +0.29
Turnout 26,051 92.99 −1.25
Two-party-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 19,940 77.96 +2.17
Labor Ronald Stanton 5,638 22.04 +22.04
National hold Swing +2.17
1985 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 15,192 58.4 +38.6
Liberal Ian Ray 5,450 20.9 −35.7
Labor Ronald Stanton 5,388 20.7 +0.5
Total formal votes 26,030 98.5
Informal votes 398 1.5
Turnout 26,428 94.2
Two-party-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 20,199 77.6 +3.7
Labor Ronald Stanton 5,831 22.4 −3.7
National gain from Liberal Swing N/A
  • The two candidate preferred vote was not counted between the Liberal and National candidates for Swan Hill.
1983 Swan Hill state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Barry Steggall 10,444 44.2 +25.5
Liberal William Richards 7,517 31.8 −26.9
Labor Ronald Stanton 5,648 23.9 +4.7
Total formal votes 23,609 99.1 +0.8
Informal votes 203 0.9 −0.8
Turnout 23,812 88.3 −6.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
National Barry Steggall 14,736 62.4 +62.4
Liberal William Richards 8,873 37.6 −39.4
National gain from Liberal Swing N/A
1982 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Wood 14,493 58.7 −0.3
Labor Ian Hardie 4,748 19.2 +1.5
National David Shannon 4,611 18.7 −4.7
Democrats John Greig 858 3.5 +3.5
Total formal votes 24,710 98.3 −0.1
Informal votes 414 1.7 +0.1
Turnout 25,124 94.6 −0.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Alan Wood 19,024 77.0 +2.2
Labor Ian Hardie 5,686 23.0 −2.2
Liberal hold Swing +2.2

Elections in the 1970s

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1979 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Wood 14,371 59.0 +10.7
National Keith Warne 5,698 23.4 −11.9
Labor Geoffrey Ferns 4,300 17.7 +3.4
Total formal votes 24,369 98.4 −0.2
Informal votes 394 1.6 +0.2
Turnout 24,763 95.5 +0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Alan Wood 18,223 74.8 −8.4
Labor Geoffrey Ferns 6,146 25.2 +8.4
Liberal hold Swing −8.4
  • The two candidate preferred vote was not counted between the Liberal and National candidates for Swan Hill.
1976 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Wood 11,318 48.3 +17.3
National James Mitchell 8,258 35.3 −3.5
Labor Graeme Lechte 3,352 14.3 −8.8
Democratic Labor Daniel Mason 494 2.1 −5.0
Total formal votes 23,422 98.6
Informal votes 331 1.4
Turnout 23,753 94.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Alan Wood 14,097 60.2 +9.2
National James Mitchell 9,325 39.8 −9.2
Liberal hold Swing +9.2
1973 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Broad 7,148 38.9 −1.0
Liberal Alan Wood 5,965 32.5 +12.1
Labor Patricia Fraser 3,958 21.5 −4.9
Democratic Labor Rodger Donohue 1,305 7.1 −6.2
Total formal votes 18,376 97.6 +0.4
Informal votes 453 2.4 −0.4
Turnout 18,829 95.1 −0.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Alan Wood 9,421 51.3 +51.3
Country Henry Broad 8,955 48.7 −21.6
Liberal gain from Country Swing N/A
1970 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Broad 6,960 39.9 −17.3
Labor Jack McLean 4,605 26.4 +11.7
Liberal Laurence Troy 3,564 20.4 +8.9
Democratic Labor Rodger Donohue 2,312 13.3 −3.3
Total formal votes 17,441 97.2 −0.4
Informal votes 495 2.8 +0.4
Turnout 17,936 95.8 +0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Country Henry Broad 12,268 70.3 −11.4
Labor Jack McLean 5,173 29.7 +11.4
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Henry Broad 11,437 65.6 −16.1
Liberal Laurence Troy 6,004 34.4 +34.4
Country hold Swing −16.1

Elections in the 1960s

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1968 Swan Hill state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Broad 8,080 47.9 −9.3
Liberal Gordon Harrison 4,424 26.3 +14.8
Labor John McLean 4,350 25.8 +11.1
Total formal votes 16,854 98.6 +1.0
Informal votes 244 1.4 −1.0
Turnout 17,098 91.9 −3.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Henry Broad 9,492 56.3
Liberal Gordon Harrison 7,362 43.7
Country hold Swing N/A
1967 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 9,842 57.2 −0.8
Democratic Labor John Carty 2,865 16.6 +5.5
Labor Robert Dorning 2,522 14.7 −8.6
Liberal Bernard Treseder 1,985 11.5 +3.9
Total formal votes 17,214 97.6
Informal votes 417 2.4
Turnout 17,631 95.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 14,064 81.7 +7.0
Labor Robert Dorning 3,150 18.3 −7.0
Country hold Swing +7.0
1964 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 7,182 38.7 +11.3
Country Thomas Mellor 4,405 23.8 +23.8
Labor Jack McLean 3,396 18.3 +5.2
Democratic Labor John McMahon 2,118 11.4 −1.7
Liberal and Country Bernard Treseder 1,438 7.8 −11.2
Total formal votes 18,539 96.4 −0.6
Informal votes 686 3.6 +0.6
Turnout 19,225 95.6 −0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 14,589 78.7 −6.7
Labor Jack McLean 3,950 21.3 +6.7
Country hold Swing −6.7
1961 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Herbert Hilton 5,041 27.4 +27.4
Country Harold Stirling 4,514 24.5 −42.9
Liberal and Country Gordon Harrison 3,494 19.0 +19.0
Democratic Labor John McMahon 2,415 13.1 +13.1
Labor Clarence Wohlers 1,812 9.8 +9.8
Independent John Hipworth 1,150 6.2 −26.4
Total formal votes 18,426 97.0 −0.9
Informal votes 566 3.0 +0.9
Turnout 18,992 96.4 +1.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 15,740 85.4 −1.0
Labor Clarence Wohlers 2,686 14.6 +1.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 11,087 60.2 −7.2
Country Herbert Hilton 7,339 39.8 +39.8
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1950s

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1958 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 12,402 67.4
Independent John Hipworth 6,006 32.6
Total formal votes 18,408 97.9
Informal votes 399 2.1
Turnout 18,807 95.3
Country hold Swing
1955 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 8,105 46.4
Independent Duncan Douglas 5,824 33.4
Independent John Hipworth 3,528 20.2
Total formal votes 17,457 98.0
Informal votes 348 2.0
Turnout 17,805 94.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 9,472 54.2
Independent Duncan Douglas 7,985 45.8
Country hold Swing
1952 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harold Stirling 5,171 39.1 −9.2
Electoral Reform John Hipworth 4,082 30.9 +30.9
Independent Duncan Douglas 3,970 30.0 +30.0
Total formal votes 13,223 97.9 −1.2
Informal votes 278 2.1 +1.2
Turnout 13,501 94.3 −0.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harold Stirling 9,124 57.4 +9.1
Electoral Reform John Hipworth 5,504 41.6 +41.6
Country gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A
1950 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country John Hipworth 6,792 51.7 +51.7
Country Samuel Lockhart 6,339 48.3 −16.6
Total formal votes 13,131 99.1 −0.2
Informal votes 124 0.9 +0.2
Turnout 13,255 94.4 0.0
Liberal and Country gain from Country Swing N/A

Elections in the 1940s

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1947 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country John Hipworth 8,324 64.9 +25.4
Labor Philip Meehan 3,360 26.2 −4.3
Independent Country Stanley Taylor 1,145 8.9 +8.9
Total formal votes 12,829 99.3 +1.1
Informal votes 90 0.7 −1.1
Turnout 12,919 94.4 +7.6
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1945 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Country John Hipworth 4,515 39.5
Labor William Kent 3,493 30.5
Country Francis Old 3,429 30.0
Total formal votes 11,437 98.2
Informal votes 208 1.8
Turnout 11,645 86.8
Two-party-preferred result
Independent Country John Hipworth 6,962 60.9
Labor William Kent 4,475 39.1
Independent Country gain from Country Swing
1943 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 4,590 62.7 +3.5
Labor William Kent 2,727 37.3 +37.3
Total formal votes 7,317 97.0 −1.4
Informal votes 223 3.0 +1.4
Turnout 7,540 84.6 −9.4
Country hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 5,030 59.2 −5.0
Country Percy Byrnes 1,776 20.9 −5.1
Country Launcelot Nind 1,686 19.8 +19.8
Total formal votes 8,492 98.4 −0.2
Informal votes 138 1.6 +0.2
Turnout 8,630 94.0 +0.9
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1930s

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1937 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 5,540 64.2 +21.6
Country Percy Byrnes 2,246 26.0 +26.0
United Australia Alfred Jager 842 9.8 +9.8
Total formal votes 8,628 98.6 +0.4
Informal votes 126 1.4 −0.4
Turnout 8,754 93.1 +1.1
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1935 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 3,765 42.6 −12.5
Independent Cyril Judd 2,631 29.8 +29.8
Independent Robert Roberts 1,237 14.0 +14.0
Independent William Sullivan 1,196 13.6 +13.6
Total formal votes 8,829 98.2 −0.6
Informal votes 164 1.8 +0.6
Turnout 8,993 92.0 −1.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Francis Old 4,496 50.9 −8.7
Independent Cyril Judd 4,333 49.1 +49.1
Country hold Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 3,381 40.0 −16.7
Independent Country Ernest Gray 1,958 23.2 +23.2
Independent Phillip Purves 1,826 21.6 +21.6
Country Walton McManus 1,278 15.1 +15.1
Total formal votes 8,443 98.8 −0.4
Informal votes 100 1.2 +0.4
Turnout 8,543 93.1 +2.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Francis Old 5,030 59.6 +2.9
Independent Country Ernest Gray 3,413 40.4 +40.4
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1920s

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1929 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 4,706 56.7 +13.2
Country Progressive Thomas Connellan 3,590 43.3 +16.2
Total formal votes 8,296 99.2 +2.3
Informal votes 71 0.8 −2.3
Turnout 8,367 90.8 +3.7
Country hold Swing N/A
1927 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 3,245 43.5
Independent William Sullivan 2,190 29.4
Country Progressive Ernest Gray 2,021 27.1
Total formal votes 7,456 96.9
Informal votes 240 3.1
Turnout 7,696 87.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Francis Old 4,510 60.5
Independent William Sullivan 2,946 39.5
Country hold Swing
1924 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Francis Old 5,347 52.4 −20.7
Labor Edward Nicholls 3,187 31.2 +31.2
Nationalist Ernest Gray 1,663 16.3 −10.6
Total formal votes 10,197 98.0 −0.9
Informal votes 211 2.0 +0.9
Turnout 10,408 48.5 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country Francis Old 66.2 −6.9
Labor Edward Nicholls 33.8 +33.8
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1921 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Victorian Farmers Francis Old 6,360 73.1 −2.9
Nationalist Royden Patterson 2,340 26.9 +2.9
Total formal votes 8,700 98.9 +5.1
Informal votes 94 1.1 −5.1
Turnout 8,794 48.5 −2.4
Victorian Farmers hold Swing −2.9
1920 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Victorian Farmers Francis Old 6,386 76.0 +25.1
Nationalist Frank Hughes 2,015 24.0 +0.7
Total formal votes 8,401 93.8 −2.5
Informal votes 559 6.2 +2.5
Turnout 8,960 50.9 −5.8
Victorian Farmers hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

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1919 Swan Hill state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Victorian Farmers Francis Old unopposed
Victorian Farmers hold Swing
1917 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Victorian Farmers Percy Stewart 3,877 50.9
Independent Hugh McClelland 1,972 25.9
Nationalist John Gray 1,774 23.3
Total formal votes 7,623 96.3 −0.6
Informal votes 290 3.7 +0.6
Turnout 7,913 56.7 +11.2
Victorian Farmers gain from Nationalist Swing N/A
  • Two candidate preferred vote was not counted.
1914 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Gray 3,459 58.5 −41.5
Liberal Hugh McClelland 2,449 41.5 +41.5
Total formal votes 5,908 96.9
Informal votes 190 3.1
Turnout 6,098 45.5
Liberal hold Swing N/A
1911 Victorian state election: Swan Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Gray unopposed
Liberal hold Swing

References

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  • "Swan Hill District results". Victorian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
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