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1927 Victorian State Election
The 1927 Victorian state election was held in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria on Saturday, 9 April 1927, to elect the 65 members of the state's Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly.Colin A Hughes, ''A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964'', Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968 (). For the first time, a Victorian state election was held on a Saturday, and voting for the Legislative Assembly was compulsory.Victorian Electoral CommissionUnit 2: Voting rights and responsibilities/ref> As a consequence, voter turnout in contested seats increased from 59.24% at the 1924 election to 91.76% at the 1927 election, although the informal vote increased from 1.01% in 1924 to 1.94% in 1927. Key dates Results Legislative Assembly Notes: *Eight seats were uncontested at this election, and were retained by the incumbent parties: **Labor (4): Electoral district of Foots ...
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Legislative Assembly Of Victoria
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria that follows a Westminster System, Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the Monarchy in Australia, King, represent ... in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Melbourne. The main colour used for the upholstery and carpets furnishing the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly is green. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker. There are presently 88 member of parliament, members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria (Australia), Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the ...
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the List of Australian states and territories by gross state product, second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate climate, temperate coa ...
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Candidates Of The 1927 Victorian State Election
The 1927 Victorian state election was held on 9 April 1927. Seat changes * Abbotsford Labor MLA Gordon Webber contested Heidelberg. * Ballarat East Labor MLA William McAdam contested Ballarat. * Ballarat West Nationalist MLA Matthew Baird contested Ballarat. *Bendigo West Labor MLA Arthur Cook contested Bendigo. * Boroondara Nationalist MLA Edmund Greenwood contested Nunawading. * Bulla Labor MLA Ralph Hjorth contested Grant. * Castlemaine and Maldon Nationalist MLA Harry Lawson contested Castlemaine and Kyneton. * Dalhousie Labor MLA Reg Pollard contested Bulla and Dalhousie. * Daylesford Labor MLA James McDonald contested Mildura. * Eaglehawk Country Progressive MLA Albert Dunstan contested Eaglehawk. *East Melbourne Nationalist MLA Alfred Farthing contested Caulfield. * Essendon Labor MLA Frank Keane contested Coburg. * Fitzroy Labor MLA Maurice Blackburn contested Clifton Hill. * Glenelg Labor MLA Ernie Bond contested Port Fairy and Glenelg. * Grenville La ...
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Motion Of No Confidence
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office. The no-confidence vote is a defining constitutional element of a parliamentary system, in which the government's/executive's mandate rests upon the continued support (or at least non-opposition) of the majority in the legislature. Systems differ in whether such a motion may be directed against the prime minister, against the government (this could be a majority government or a minority government/coalition government), against individual cabinet ministers, against the cabinet as a whole, or some combination of the above. A censure motion is different from a no-confidence motion. In a parliamentary system, a vote of no confidence leads to the resignation of the prime minister and cabinet, or, depen ...
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Electoral District Of Brighton
The electoral district of Brighton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in south-eastern Melbourne, including the suburbs of Brighton and Elwood, and parts of Brighton East and Hampton. It lies within the Southern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council. It is one of only three electorates (along with Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ... and Williamstown) to have existed continuously since 1856. Brighton was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855, as: "''Commencing on the Sea Coast at the South-west Angle of Section 25, Parish of Moorabbin, thence by a Line East to the South-east Angle of Section 55 ; on the East by a Line bearing North, being the Parish Boundary from th ...
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Electoral District Of Goulburn Valley
The Electoral district of Goulburn Valley was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The district was replaced by the district of Goulburn in 1945. Members for Goulburn Valley :George Graham represented Numurkah and Nathalia 1889–1904. :John Mitchell was a farmer and builder who was an MLA from the 1914 Victorian State election until the 1920 Victorian State election. Election results See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories The parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia. All the parliaments are based on the Westminster system, and each is regulated by its own constituti ... * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1904 establishments in Australia 1945 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ...
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Electoral District Of Polwarth
The electoral district of Polwarth is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in south-west rural Victoria, west of Geelong, and covers the Colac and Corangamite local government areas (LGA), parts of the Moyne, Golden Plains and Surf Coast LGAs, and slivers of the Ararat and Greater Geelong LGAs, running along the Great Ocean Road taking in Anglesea, Cape Otway, Peterborough, Aireys Inlet, Lorne, Wye River, Apollo Bay and Port Campbell, covering the inland towns of Winchelsea, Colac, Camperdown and Terang along the Princes Highway, and Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore and Mortlake on the Hamilton Highway, and finally, includes the Otway Ranges and Lake Corangamite. The seat has existed since 1889 and has always been held by conservative parties. The Liberal Party has held the seat continuously since 1970, although the Nationals have provided strong challenges on occasions, such as at the 1999 election when election night figu ...
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Electoral District Of Benambra
The electoral district of Benambra is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in north-eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The largest settlement is the city of Wodonga, Victoria, Wodonga. Benambra also includes the towns of Baranduda, Victoria, Baranduda, Barnawartha, Victoria, Barnawartha, Beechworth, Victoria, Beechworth, Chiltern, Victoria, Chiltern, Corryong, Victoria, Corryong, Eskdale, Victoria, Eskdale, Kiewa, Victoria, Kiewa, Mitta Mitta, Victoria, Mitta Mitta, Mount Beauty, Victoria, Mount Beauty, Rutherglen, Victoria, Rutherglen, Tallangatta, Victoria, Tallangatta, Tangambalanga, Victoria, Tangambalanga, Tawonga, Victoria, Tawonga, Wahgunyah, Victoria, Wahgunyah, and Yackandandah, Victoria, Yackandandah. It lies in the Northern Victoria Region of the upper house, the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. The district of Benambra was created by the ''Electoral Act Amendment A ...
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Electoral District Of Richmond (Victoria)
Richmond is an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is currently a 13 km2 electorate in the inner east of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, Cremorne, Victoria, Cremorne, Burnley, Victoria, Burnley, Abbotsford, Victoria, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Victoria, Collingwood, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Clifton Hill, North Fitzroy, Victoria, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy, Victoria, Fitzroy. Historically a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party, Richmond has in recent elections become increasingly marginal against the Australian Greens Victoria, Greens, who eventually won the seat at the 2022 Victorian state election. History Richmond is one of only three electorates (along with Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton and Electoral district of Williamstown, Willia ...
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Electoral District Of Port Melbourne
Port Melbourne was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 1889, replacing the previous electorate of Sandridge, which was the former name for Port Melbourne. Port Melbourne was defined by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888 (taking effect at 1889 elections) as: It was initially won by then-Sandridge MLA Frederick Derham. It was abolished in 1958 and merged into the electorate of Albert Park. The last MLA for Port Melbourne, Archie Todd went on to contest and win the Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament ... seat of Melbourne West Province. Members for Port Melbourne Election results Notes : There are conflicting sources as to whether Phillip Salmon, member from 1892 to 1894, was endorsed ...
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Electoral District Of Northcote
The electoral district of Northcote is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the suburbs of Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, and part of Preston. It lies on the northern bank of the Yarra River between the Merri and Darebin creeks. The seat was created in 1927 as a replacement for Jika Jika, and has been a safe Labor seat for most of its existence. It has only been held by seven members. The seat's most historically prominent member is 34th Premier John Cain (senior). Upon Cain's death in 1957, he was succeeded by Frank Wilkes, who went on to become state Labor leader from 1977 to 1981. Former ABC newsreader Mary Delahunty was elected in a 1998 by-election. As the electorate was safe for the Labor Party, the Liberals declined to nominate a candidate. However, partly due to the presence of a One Nation candidate, the Liberals took the unusual step of campaigning for the Australian Democrats, issuing a ' How to Vote Lib ...
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Electoral District Of Footscray
The electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, covering the suburbs of Footscray, Victoria, Footscray, Maidstone, Victoria, Maidstone, Maribyrnong, Victoria, Maribyrnong, Seddon, Victoria, Seddon, West Footscray, Victoria, West Footscray, and parts of Yarraville, Victoria, Yarraville. The seat was first created by ''The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876'' taking effect at the 1877 elections. It was abolished in 1904 and recreated in 1927. In its current incarnation it has been held by the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party for its entire existence. It has usually been a comfortably safe Labor seat, as it lies in Labor's traditional heartland of western and northern Melbourne. Members for Footscray Election results Graphical summary External links Electorate profile: Footscray District, Victorian Electoral Commission References

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