Electoral results for the district of Bulla and Dalhousie

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Bulla and Dalhousie in Victorian state elections.

Members for Bulla and Dalhousie

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Member Party Term
  Reg Pollard Labor 1927–1932
  Harry White United Australia 1932–1943
  Reginald James Country 1943–1944
  Leslie Webster Country 1944–1945

Election results

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Elections in the 1940s

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1944 Bulla and Dalhousie state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reginald Hoban 2,688 31.8 −2.4
Country Leslie Webster 2,502 29.6 N/A
Liberal Aubrey Saunders 1,451 17.1 +0.1
Independent Albert Pennell 1,002 11.8 +11.8
Independent Edward Cummins 822 9.7 +9.7
Total formal votes 8,465 98.0 +1.1
Informal votes 170 2.0 −1.1
Turnout 8,635 84.7 −3.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Leslie Webster 4,730 55.9 +0.2
Labor Reginald Hoban 3,735 44.1 −0.2
Country hold Swing +0.2
1943 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edward Cummins 3,003 34.2 −1.9
Country Reginald James 1,689 19.3 −5.4
United Australia Aubrey Saunders 1,493 17.0 −22.2
Ind. United Australia Howard Everard 1,487 16.9 +16.9
Country John Ryan 1,100 12.5 +12.5
Total formal votes 8,772 96.9 −2.1
Informal votes 280 3.1 +2.1
Turnout 9,052 88.3 −4.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Reginald James 4,882 55.7 +55.7
Labor Edward Cummins 3,890 44.3 −3.4
Country gain from United Australia Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Harry White 3,581 39.2 −6.2
Labor Charlie Mutton 3,304 36.1 +5.5
Country John Milligan 2,254 24.7 +0.7
Total formal votes 9,139 99.0 +0.1
Informal votes 94 1.0 −0.1
Turnout 9,233 92.9 −0.7
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Harry White 4,781 52.3 −4.0
Labor Charlie Mutton 4,358 47.7 +4.0
United Australia hold Swing −4.0

Elections in the 1930s

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1937 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Harry White 4,243 45.4 −0.6
Labor Charlie Mutton 2,866 30.6 −3.3
Country John Milligan 2,241 24.0 +3.9
Total formal votes 9,350 98.9 −0.1
Informal votes 102 1.1 +0.1
Turnout 9,452 93.6 −0.8
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Harry White 5,262 56.3 −2.6
Labor Charles Mutton 4,088 43.7 +2.6
United Australia hold Swing −2.6
1935 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Harry White 4,353 46.0 +15.1
Labor Charlie Mutton 3,206 33.9 −8.2
Country John Ryan 1,905 20.1 −7.0
Total formal votes 9,464 99.0 0.0
Informal votes 93 1.0 0.0
Turnout 9,557 94.4 +1.6
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Harry White 5,573 58.9 +4.6
Labor Charlie Mutton 3,891 41.1 −4.6
United Australia hold Swing +4.6
1932 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Pollard 4,004 42.1 −12.2
United Australia Harry White 2,937 30.9 +6.0
Country Leon Stahl 2,578 27.1 +6.4
Total formal votes 9,519 99.0 +0.2
Informal votes 99 1.0 −0.2
Turnout 9,618 92.8 +0.9
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Harry White 5,164 54.3 +10.6
Labor Reg Pollard 4,355 45.7 −10.6
United Australia gain from Labor Swing +10.6

Elections in the 1920s

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1929 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Pollard 4,911 54.3 +6.3
Nationalist Francis Lobb 2,253 24.9 +4.5
Country Claude Anderson 1,876 20.7 +2.1
Total formal votes 9,040 98.8 +0.6
Informal votes 111 1.2 −0.6
Turnout 9,151 91.9 +2.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Reg Pollard 56.3 +0.2
Nationalist Francis Lobb 43.7 −0.2
Labor hold Swing +0.2
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1927 Victorian state election: Bulla and Dalhousie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Pollard 4,183 48.0
Nationalist Andrew Rowan 1,774 20.4
Country Alexander Wilson 1,625 18.6
Australian Liberal John Murphy 1,131 13.0
Total formal votes 8,713 98.2
Informal votes 159 1.8
Turnout 8,872 89.0
After distribution of preferences
Labor Reg Pollard 4,695 53.9
Nationalist Andrew Rowan 2,118 24.3
Country Alexander Wilson 1,900 21.8
Labor hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed to completion.

References

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  1. ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1975). Voting for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 070811332X.