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Elections were held in the
Australian state The states and territories are the national subdivisions and second level of government of Australia. The states are partially sovereignty, sovereign, administrative divisions that are autonomous administrative division, self-governing polity, ...
of Victoria on Saturday 18 June 1955 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's
Legislative Council A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the Brit ...
for six year terms. MLCs were elected in single-member provinces using
preferential voting Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems: * Any electoral system that allows a voter to indicate multiple preferences where preferences marked are weighted or used as cont ...
.


Results


Legislative Council


Retiring Members


Country

* George Tuckett MLC ( Northern)


Candidates

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.


Results by province


Ballarat


Bendigo


Doutta Galla


East Yarra

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


Gippsland


Higinbotham


Melbourne


Melbourne North

* Preferences were not distributed.


Melbourne West

* Sitting MLC Les Coleman was elected in 1949 as a Labor member, but defected to Anti-Communist Labor in the 1955 split.


Monash


Northern

* Preferences were not fully distributed.


North-Eastern


North Western


Southern

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


South Eastern

* Charles Gartside had been elected as a Liberal party MLC in 1949, but was expelled from the party in 1952.


South Western

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


Western

* Hugh MacLeod had been elected as a Liberal party MLC in 1949, but was expelled from the party in 1952.


See also

* 1955 Victorian state election


References

{{Victorian elections 1955 elections in Australia Elections in Victoria (state) Results of Victorian state elections 1950s in Victoria (state) June 1955 in Australia