1958 Victorian Legislative Council Election
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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 21 June 1958 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 ...
. This was the last time Legislative Council elections were held separately to those of the Legislative Assembly.


Results


Legislative Council


Retiring Members


Democratic Labor

* Paul Jones MLC ( Doutta Galla) — elected as Labor


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

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


East Yarra


Gippsland

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


Higinbotham

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


Melbourne

* Maurie Sheehy was elected in 1952 as a member of Labor, then defected to the DLP in 1955.


Melbourne North

* Two party preferred vote was estimated. * Jack Little was elected in 1952 as a member of Labor, then defected to the DLP in 1955.


Melbourne West

* Bert Bailey was elected in 1952 as a member of Labor, then defected to the DLP in 1955.


Monash

* Thomas Brennan was elected in 1952 as a member of Labor, then defected to the DLP in 1955.


Northern


North-Eastern


North-Western


Southern


South-Eastern

* Two party preferred vote was estimated.


South-Western


Western


See also

* 1958 Victorian state election


References

{{Victorian elections 1958 elections in Australia Elections in Victoria (state) Results of Victorian state elections 1950s in Victoria (state) June 1958 in Australia Victorian Legislative Council