Electoral results for the Northern Province (Victoria)

This is a list of electoral results for the Northern Province in Victorian state elections.

Members for Northern Province

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party
	Francis Robertson		1882		William Mitchell			David Sterry
			1884
			1884		William Irving Winter
	Walter Simpson		1886
			1886
			1888
			1889					Joseph Abbott		Member 4		Party
			1889								George Simmie
	Frederick Illingworth
			1890
	Joseph Sternberg		1891
			1892
			1894
			1895
			1896
			1898
			1900
			1901		William Baillieu
			1901
			1902
	Martin Cussen		1904
	Richard Abbott		1907
			1910
	Frank Clarke		1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917
			1919
			1922		Richard Abbott	VFU
	George Tuckett	Country	1925
			1928		Richard Kilpatrick	Country
			1931
			1934
			1937
			1940
			1943
			1946		Dudley Walters	Country
			1949
			1952
	Percy Feltham	Country	1955
			1958
			1961
			1964		Michael Clarke	Country
		Independent	1965
	Stuart McDonald	Country	1967
			1970
			1973

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1973 Victorian state election: Northern Province[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Stuart McDonald	28,726	47.7	+4.9
	Liberal	Albert Baker	13,546	22.5	-0.3
	Labor	John White	12,967	21.5	-0.6
	Democratic Labor	John Ryan	5,012	8.3	-4.1
Total formal votes			60,251	96.6	+0.6
Informal votes			2,095	3.4	-0.6
Turnout			62,346	95.0	-1.3
After distribution of preferences
	Country	Stuart McDonald	32,460	53.9
	Liberal	Albert Baker	14,115	23.4
	Labor	John White	13,676	22.7
	Country hold		Swing	N/A

1970 Victorian state election: Northern Province[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Michael Clarke	23,672	42.8	-12.7
	Liberal	Albert Baker	12,585	22.8	+4.7
	Labor	Trevor Monti	12,201	22.1	+22.1
	Democratic Labor	James Bourke	6,865	12.4	+1.7
Total formal votes			55,323	96.0	-0.5
Informal votes			2,284	4.0	+0.5
Turnout			57,607	96.3	-0.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Country	Michael Clarke	35,813	64.7
	Liberal	Albert Baker	19,510	35.3
	Country hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: Northern Province[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Stuart McDonald	30,259	55.5
	Liberal	Laurence Troy	9,874	18.1
	Independent	Percy Feltham	8,539	15.7
	Democratic Labor	Peter Lawrence	5,822	10.7
Total formal votes			54,494	96.5
Informal votes			1,969	3.5
Turnout			56,463	97.0
	Country hold		Swing

• Preferences were not distributed.

1964 Victorian state election: Northern Province[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Michael Clarke	27,453	53.1	+10.8
	Liberal and Country	Laurence Troy	15,418	29.8	+7.6
	Democratic Labor	William Bond	8,809	17.0	+3.9
Total formal votes			51,680	97.0	+0.1
Informal votes			1,621	3.0	-0.1
Turnout			53,301	95.6	-0.8
	Country hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1961 Victorian state election: Northern Province[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Percy Feltham	21,107	42.3	-57.7
	Labor	John Cameron	11,183	22.4	+22.4
	Liberal and Country	Laurence Troy	11,089	22.2	+22.2
	Democratic Labor	Bernard Hallinan	6,528	13.1	+13.1
Total formal votes			49,907	96.9
Informal votes			1,569	3.1
Turnout			51,476	96.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Country	Percy Feltham		73.4	-26.6
	Labor	John Cameron		26.6	+26.6
	Country hold		Swing	N/A

• Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: Northern Province[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Dudley Walters	unopposed
	Country hold		Swing

References

1. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1973". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
2. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1970". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
3. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1967". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
4. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1964". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
5. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1961". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
6. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1958". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 October 2020.