Electoral results for the district of Glen Iris

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

Members for Glen Iris

First incarnation 1945–1955
Member		Party	Term
	Ian McLaren	Independent	1945–1947
	Les Norman	Liberal / LCP	1947–1952
	Thomas Hollway	Electoral Reform League	1952–1955

Second incarnation 1967–1976
Member		Party	Term
	Jim MacDonald	Liberal	1967–1976

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1973 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	13,690	56.5	+2.9
	Labor	Douglas Gammon	7,064	29.2	−5.5
	Democratic Labor	Edward Cleary	1,749	7.2	−4.4
	Australia	Jack Hammond	1,731	7.1	+7.1
Total formal votes			24,234	98.3	+0.4
Informal votes			425	1.7	−0.4
Turnout			24,659	92.9	−0.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	15,869	65.5	+2.0
	Labor	Douglas Gammon	8,365	34.5	−2.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.0

1970 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	12,261	53.6	−2.4
	Labor	Douglas Gammon	7,942	34.7	+5.3
	Democratic Labor	John Preece	2,657	11.6	−3.0
Total formal votes			22,860	97.9	+0.3
Informal votes			479	2.1	−0.3
Turnout			23,339	93.4	−0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	14,519	63.5	−5.0
	Labor	Douglas Gammon	8,341	36.5	+5.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.0

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	12,944	56.0	−6.5
	Labor	Allan McDonald	6,779	29.4	+3.9
	Democratic Labor	Kenneth Abbott	3,378	14.6	+2.6
Total formal votes			23,101	97.6
Informal votes			565	2.4
Turnout			23,666	94.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Jim MacDonald	15,815	68.5	−4.3
	Labor	Allan McDonald	7,286	31.5	+4.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.3

Elections in the 1950s

1952 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Electoral Reform	Thomas Hollway	15,152	56.4	+56.4
	Liberal and Country	Les Norman	10,727	39.9	−26.6
	Communist	Ian Turner	971	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			26,850	97.9	−1.4
Informal votes			585	2.1	+1.4
Turnout			27,435	94.7	0.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Electoral Reform	Thomas Hollway	15,638	58.2	+58.2
	Liberal and Country	Les Norman	11,212	41.8	−24.7
	Electoral Reform gain from Liberal and Country		Swing	N/A

1950 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Les Norman	16,532	66.5	+5.3
	Labor	Gwendolyn Noad	8,333	33.5	+33.5
Total formal votes			24,865	99.3	+0.2
Informal votes			179	0.7	−0.2
Turnout			25,044	94.7	+1.2
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Les Norman	14,190	61.2	+20.6
	Independent	Ian McLaren	8,991	38.8	+8.4
Total formal votes			23,181	99.1	+0.5
Informal votes			211	0.9	−0.5
Turnout			23,392	93.5	+5.6
	Liberal gain from Independent		Swing	+18.2

1945 Victorian state election: Glen Iris

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Moir	8,305	40.6
	Independent	Ian McLaren	6,223	30.4
	Labor	Thomas Brennan	5,921	29.0
Total formal votes			20,449	98.6
Informal votes			287	1.4
Turnout			20,736	87.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Ian McLaren	11,646	57.0
	Liberal	Alan Moir	8,803	43.0
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing