Electoral results for the district of Westernport

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

Members for Westernport

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Member Party Term
  Doug Jennings Liberal/Independent 1976–1979
  Alan Brown Liberal 1979–1985

Election results

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Elections in the 1980s

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1982 Victorian state election: Westernport[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Brown 15,126 47.9 +14.4
Labor Russell Joiner 13,153 41.6 +9.2
Independent Lester Wyatt 1,944 6.2 +6.2
Democrats Leslie Reubens 1,372 4.3 -0.6
Total formal votes 31,595 98.3 +0.6
Informal votes 546 1.7 −0.6
Turnout 32,141 93.4 −0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Alan Brown 17,027 53.9 -6.0
Labor Russell Joiner 14,568 46.1 +6.0
Liberal hold Swing -6.0

Elections in the 1970s

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1979 Victorian state election: Westernport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Brown 9,589 33.5 -12.7
Labor Russell Joiner 9,271 32.4 +0.3
Independent Doug Jennings 6,819 23.8 +23.8
National Lawrence Wintle 1,574 5.5 -12.7
Democrats Ronald Bowman 1,404 4.9 +4.9
Total formal votes 28,657 97.7 −0.4
Informal votes 684 2.3 +0.4
Turnout 29,341 93.7 +0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Alan Brown 17,172 59.9 -6.4
Labor Russell Joiner 11,485 40.1 +6.4
Liberal hold Swing -6.4
1976 Victorian state election: Westernport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Doug Jennings 11,237 46.2 -1.6
Labor John Daley 7,812 32.1 -0.3
National Michael Woods 4,429 18.2 +5.0
Democratic Labor Kevin Leydon 866 3.6 -3.0
Total formal votes 24,344 98.1
Informal votes 462 1.9
Turnout 24,806 93.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Doug Jennings 16,146 66.3 +1.6
Labor John Daley 8,198 33.7 -1.6
Liberal hold Swing +1.6

References

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  1. ^ Hughes, Colin A., Don Aitken (1987). Voting for the Australian state lower houses, 1975-1984. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0909779244.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)