Victorian state election, 1964

Victorian state election, 1964

27 June 1964

All 66 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 17 (of the 34) seats in the Victorian Legislative Council   First party Second party Third party   Leader Henry Bolte Clive Stoneham George Moss Party Liberal and Country Labor Country Leader since 3 May 1953 1958 1964 Leader's seat Hampden Midlands Murray Valley Last election 39 seats 17 seats 9 seats Seats won 38 seats 18 seats 10 seats Seat change 1 1 1 Percentage 39.63% 36.22% 8.76% Swing 3.20 2.33 1.62

Premier before election Henry Bolte Liberal and Country Premier after election Henry Bolte Liberal and Country

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on 27 June 1964 to elect the 66 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 17 members of the 34-member Legislative Council. The Liberal and Country Party (LCP) government of Premier Henry Bolte won a fourth term in office.

Key dates

Date	Event
6 May 1964	The Parliament was prorogued.[1]
14 May 1964	Writs were issued by the Administrator to proceed with an election.[2]
5 June 1964	Close of nominations.
27 June 1964	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
8 July 1964	The Bolte Ministry was reconstituted, with two new ministers sworn in.[3]
14 July 1964	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
14 July 1964	Parliament resumed for business.[4]

Results

The election produced almost no change in the electoral balance.

Victorian state election, 27 June 1964[5] Legislative Assembly << 1961 — 1967 >>
Enrolled voters		1,635,311
Votes cast		1,543,778		Turnout	94.40	–0.01
Informal votes		35,631		Informal	2.31	–0.14
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Liberal and Country	597,748	39.63	+3.20	38	– 1
	Labor	546,279	36.22	–2.33	18	+ 1
	Democratic Labor	225,779	14.97	–1.98	0	± 0
	Country	132,067	8.76	+1.62	10	+ 1
	Other	3,741	0.25	–0.01	0	± 0
	Independent	2,533	0.17	–0.49	0	– 1
Total		1,508,147			66
Two-party-preferred
	Liberal and Country	890,164	59.0	+1.1
	Labor	617,873	41.0	–1.1

Seats changing hands

Seat	Pre-1964				Swing	Post-1964
	Party		Member	Margin		Margin	Member	Party
Bendigo		Labor	Bill Galvin	4.5	-6.3	1.8	Robert Trethewey	Liberal and Country
Geelong West		Liberal and Country	Max Gillett	0.2	-0.3	0.1	Neil Trezise	Labor
Kara Kara		Liberal and Country	Keith Turnbull	13.8	-15.1	1.3	Bill Phelan	Country
Moorabbin		Independent Liberal	Bob Suggett	8.7	N/A	11.0	Bob Suggett	Liberal and Country

• Members in italics did not recontest their seats.
• In addition, Labor retained the seat of Broadmeadows which it had won from the LCP at the 1962 by-election.

Post-election pendulum

LCP SEATS (38)
Marginal
Bendigo	Robert Trethewey	LCP	1.8%
Lowan	Jim McCabe	LCP	1.8% v CP
Mentone	Edward Meagher	LCP	3.9%
Ballarat South	Bill Stephen	LCP	4.7%
Dandenong	Len Reid	LCP	5.6%
Morwell	Jim Balfour	LCP	5.6%
Fairly Safe
Moonee Ponds	Jack Holden	LCP	6.0%
Hawthorn	Walter Jona	LCP	6.4%
Evelyn	Russell Stokes	LCP	6.7%
Essendon	Kenneth Wheeler	LCP	7.0%
Oakleigh	Alan Scanlan	LCP	7.5%
St Kilda	Brian Dixon	LCP	8.4%
Dundas	William McDonald	LCP	8.9%
Ripponlea	Edgar Tanner	LCP	9.6%
Safe
Geelong	Hayden Birrell	LCP	10.0%
Moorabbin	Bob Suggett	LCP	11.0%
Ivanhoe	Vernon Christie	LCP	11.4%
Scoresby	Bill Borthwick	LCP	11.6%
Ormond	Joe Rafferty	LCP	12.1%
Ringwood	Jim Manson	LCP	12.5%
Sandringham	Murray Porter	LCP	12.7%
Mulgrave	Ray Wiltshire	LCP	13.4%
Portland	George Gibbs	LCP	14.8%
Prahran	Sam Loxton	LCP	14.8%
Ballarat North	Tom Evans	LCP	15.6%
Box Hill	George Reid	LCP	17.8%
Toorak	Philip Hudson	LCP	18.3%
Caulfield	Alexander Fraser	LCP	18.4%
Mornington	Roberts Dunstan	LCP	19.5%
Camberwell	Vernon Wilcox	LCP	19.6%
Hampden	Henry Bolte	LCP	20.2%
Elsternwick	Richard Gainey	LCP	20.8%
Brighton	John Rossiter	LCP	22.0%
Polwarth	Tom Darcy	LCP	22.0%
Balwyn	Alex Taylor	LCP	22.6%
Kew	Arthur Rylah	LCP	22.6%
Burwood	Jim MacDonald	LCP	22.8%
Malvern	John Bloomfield	LCP	25.5%

LABOR SEATS (18)
Marginal
Geelong West	Neil Trezise	ALP	0.1%
Broadmeadows	John Wilton	ALP	0.6%
Melbourne	Arthur Clarey	ALP	1.0%
Midlands	Clive Stoneham	ALP	1.1%
Brunswick West	Campbell Turnbull	ALP	5.5%
Fairly safe
Preston	Charlie Ring	ALP	8.5%
Northcote	Frank Wilkes	ALP	8.6%
Grant	Roy Crick	ALP	9.1%
Coburg	Charlie Mutton	ALP	9.7%
Flemington	Kevin Holland	ALP	9.8%
Albert Park	Keith Sutton	ALP	9.9%
Reservoir	Harry Jenkins	ALP	9.9%
Safe
Brunswick East	Leo Fennessy	ALP	10.7%
Richmond	Clyde Holding	ALP	16.0%
Fitzroy	Denis Lovegrove	ALP	17.0%
Yarraville	Roy Schintler	ALP	17.9%
Footscray	William Divers	ALP	18.9%
Williamstown	Larry Floyd	ALP	20.0%
COUNTRY SEATS (10)
Kara Kara	Bill Phelan	CP	1.3% v LCP
Rodney	Russell McDonald	CP	12.1% v LCP
Benalla	Tom Trewin	CP	12.5% v LCP
Murray Valley	George Moss	CP	13.5% v LCP
Gippsland West	Leslie Cochrane	CP	14.6% v LCP
Gippsland East	Bruce Evans	CP	16.9% v LCP
Mildura	Milton Whiting	CP	17.4%
Benambra	Tom Mitchell	CP	25.4%
Gippsland South	Herbert Hyland	CP	27.6% v DLP
Swan Hill	Harold Stirling	CP	28.7%

See also

• Candidates of the Victorian state election, 1964
• Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1961–1964
• Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1964–1967
• Bolte Ministry

References

1. "Discharging members of the Legislative Council from attendance and dissolving the Legislative Assembly". Victorian Government Gazette. 6 May 1964. p. 1964:1420.
2. Chief Electoral Officer, Victoria (1964). Statistics relating to the general election held on Saturday 27 June 1964 (6947/64). Accessed at Baillieu Library, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
3. "Ministers of the Crown". Victorian Government Gazette. 8 July 1964. p. 1964:2233.
4. "Fixing the time for holding the first session of the forty-third Parliament of Victoria". Victorian Government Gazette. 30 June 1964. p. 1964:2131.
5. Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Victoria, Assembly election, 27 June 1964". Retrieved 1 February 2010.