1928 Brighton state by-election
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The 1928 Brighton state by-election was held on 24 April 1928 to elect the next member for Brighton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the death of incumbent MP Oswald Snowball.
Snowball, an Independent Nationalist who was also the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, died on 16 March.[1]
The by-election was won by Nationalist candidate and future premier Ian Macfarlan, who narrowly defeated feminist and housewives' advocate Eleanor Glencross.[2]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | William Finlayson | 4,262 | 22.6 | ||
| Independent | Eleanor Glencross | 3,985 | 21.1 | ||
| Nationalist | Ian Macfarlan | 3,920 | 20.8 | ||
| Nationalist | Henry Abbott | 1,554 | 8.2 | ||
| Nationalist | Alfred Kelly | 1,445 | 7.7 | ||
| Nationalist | James Ramsay | 1,280 | 6.8 | ||
| Nationalist | Henry Hall | 1,037 | 5.5 | ||
| Australian Liberal | Daniel Hoban | 823 | 4.4 | ||
| Independent | Martin Hannah | 340 | 1.8 | ||
| Independent | Thomas Ryan | 193 | 1.0 | ||
| Total formal votes | 18,839 | 93.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,243 | 6.2 | |||
| Turnout | 20,082 | 88.6 | |||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Nationalist | Ian Macfarlan | 9,685 | 51.4 | ||
| Independent | Eleanor Glencross | 9,154 | 48.6 | ||
| Nationalist gain from Ind. Nationalist | Swing | N/A | |||
References
[edit]- ^ Snowball, Oswald Robinson, Parliament of Victoria.
- ^ Wright, R. "Macfarlan, Ian (1881–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
- ^ "THE TWENTY-NINTH PARLIAMENT". Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.