Electoral results for the district of Collingwood

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

Members for Collingwood

The district initially had two members, which was increased to three from 1859,^[1] reverted to two after 1877, and was represented by only one member from 1904.

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Thomas Embling	Nov 1856 – July 1861	George Harker	Nov 1856 – Aug 1859	Member 3	Term
Thomas Embling	Nov 1856 – July 1861	George Milner Stephen	Oct 1859 – July 1861	Charles Jardine Don	Oct 1859 – Aug 1864
Graham Berry	Aug 1861 – Dec 1865	John Edwards	Aug 1861 – Dec 1867	George Harker	Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
Thomas Embling	Feb 1866 – Dec 1867	John Edwards	Aug 1861 – Dec 1867	Isaac Reeves	Feb 1866 – Oct 1869
John Everard	Mar 1868^[2] – Feb 1871	William Bates^[3]	Mar 1868 – Mar 1874	Isaac Reeves	Feb 1866 – Oct 1869
George Harker^[3]	Apr 1871 – Mar 1874	William Bates^[3]	Mar 1868 – Mar 1874	William Vale^[3]	Oct 1869^[b] – Mar 1874
John Everard	May 1874 – July 1874^[2]	James Forester Sullivan	May 1874 – Feb 1876	Albert Lee Tucker	May 1874 – Apr 1877
George David Langridge	Aug 1874^[b] – Mar 1891
		James Mirams	Feb 1876 – Feb 1886
		William Guard Feild	Mar 1886 – Mar 1889
John Hancock	Jun 1891^[b] – Apr 1892	William Beazley	Apr 1889 – May 1904
Edgar Wilkins	May 1892 – Dec 1908	William Beazley	Apr 1889 – May 1904

Single Member District
Member		Party	Term
	Martin Hannah	Labor	1904 – 1920
	Martin Hannah	Independent	1920 – 1921
	Tom Tunnecliffe	Labor	1921 – 1947
	Bill Towers	Labor	1947^[b] – 1958

^[b] = by-election

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1955 Victorian state election: Collingwood^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Bill Towers	8,906	63.4
	Labor (A-C)	William Livy	3,399	24.2
	Liberal and Country	Martha Yuille	1,746	12.4
Total formal votes			14,051	97.8
Informal votes			318	2.2
Turnout			14,369	93.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Bill Towers	9,343	66.5
	Labor (A-C)	William Livy	4,708	33.5
	Labor hold		Swing

1952 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Towers	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1950 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Towers	18,026	78.6	+5.2
	Liberal and Country	Richard Taylor	4,918	21.4	−5.2
Total formal votes			22,944	98.2	+0.8
Informal votes			430	1.8	−0.8
Turnout			23,374	91.1	−0.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.2

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Towers	17,690	73.4	−26.6
	Liberal	William Boughton	6,420	26.6	+26.6
Total formal votes			24,110	97.4
Informal votes			653	2.6
Turnout			24,763	91.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1947 Collingwood state by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Bill Towers	13,273	65.7
	Liberal	William Boughton	4,067	20.1
	Independent	James Baker	1,615	8.0
	Communist	Leslie Loye	1,256	6.2
Total formal votes			20,211	96.6
Informal votes			713	3.4
Turnout			20,924	79.4
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Preferences were not distributed.

1945 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1943 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	9,032	46.1	−2.2
	Independent Labor	James Baker	4,838	24.7	−10.3
	Communist	Ralph Gibson	4,016	20.5	+13.6
	Independent	William King	1,694	8.6	+8.6
Total formal votes			19,580	93.7	−2.0
Informal votes			1,323	6.3	+2.0
Turnout			20,903	85.3	−5.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	12,279	62.7
	Independent Labor	James Baker	7,301	37.3
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1940 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	9,694	48.3	−33.2
	Independent Labor	James Baker	7,023	35.0	+35.0
	United Australia	Frederick Dods	1,950	9.7	−8.8
	Communist	John Blake	1,388	6.9	+6.9
Total formal votes			20,055	95.7	−2.5
Informal votes			893	4.3	+2.5
Turnout			20,948	91.0	−1.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe		52.1
	Independent	James Baker		47.9
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Two candidate preferred vote was estimated.

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	17,286	81.5	+15.3
	United Australia	Oliver Dixon	3,915	18.5	−3.4
Total formal votes			21,201	98.2	+1.0
Informal votes			392	1.8	−1.0
Turnout			21,593	92.6	+0.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.5

1935 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	13,806	66.2	−33.8
	United Australia	Robert Breen	4,562	21.9	+21.9
	Communist	Ernie Thornton	2,501	12.0	+12.0
Total formal votes			20,869	97.2
Informal votes			602	2.8
Turnout			21,471	92.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe		77.0	−23.0
	United Australia	Robert Breen		23.0	+23.0
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Two party preferred vote was estimated.

1932 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1927 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	16,392	77.2
	Nationalist	Ralph Stredwick	4,843	22.8
Total formal votes			21,235	98.2
Informal votes			391	1.8
Turnout			21,626	90.6
	Labor hold		Swing

1924 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1921 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	5,313	56.4	+8.8
	Independent Labor	Martin Hannah	2,437	25.9	−2.2
	Nationalist	Alexander Young	876	9.3	−15.0
	Independent	James Reid	786	8.3	+8.3
Total formal votes			9,412	98.1	+4.8
Informal votes			183	1.9	−4.8
Turnout			9,595	64.9	−4.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe		58.2	+8.7
	Independent Labor	Martin Hannah		41.8	−8.7
	Labor gain from Independent Labor		Swing	+8.7

Two candidate preferred vote was estimated.

1920 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Thomas McAllen	4,732	47.6
	Independent Labor	Martin Hannah	2,793	28.1
	Nationalist	Harry Evans	2,417	24.3
Total formal votes			9,942	93.3
Informal votes			714	6.7
Turnout			10,656	69.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent Labor	Martin Hannah	5,017	50.5
	Labor	Thomas McAllen	4,925	49.5
	Independent Labor gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Martin Hannah	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1914 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Martin Hannah	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1911 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Martin Hannah	5,227	66.5	+25.3
	Liberal	Stanley Lewis	2,632	33.5	+10.4
Total formal votes			7,859	98.5	−1.1
Informal votes			120	1.5	+1.1
Turnout			7,979	59.6	−5.7
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Victorian state election: Collingwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Martin Hannah	984	40.2	+40.2
	Independent Ministerial	Edgar Wilkins	816	33.1	–23.7
	Liberal	Harry Evans	565	23.1	+23.1
	Victorian Socialist	Percy Laidler	85	3.5	+3.5
Total formal votes			2,923	99.6
Informal votes			13	0.4
Turnout			2,936	65.3
	Labor gain from Independent Ministerial		Swing	+40.2

References

^ "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^ ^a ^b Johnson, Robert A. "Everard, John (1825–1886)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Parliament". The Argus. Trove. 26 Apr 1871. Retrieved 25 Apr 2013.
^ 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.

[1] "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 12 May 2013.

[ADBeverard-2] Johnson, Robert A. "Everard, John (1825–1886)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.

[1871-Elect-3] "Parliament". The Argus. Trove. 26 Apr 1871. Retrieved 25 Apr 2013.

[4] 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.

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