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

Members for Port Melbourne

Member Party Term
  Frederick Derham Unaligned 1889–1892
  Philip Salmon Unaligned [1] 1892–1894
  George Sangster Labor 1894–1902
  Independent Labor 1902–1906
  Labor 1906–1915
  Owen Sinclair Labor 1915–1917
  Independent 1917
  James Murphy Labor 1917–1942
  Tom Corrigan Labor 1942–1952
  Stan Corrigan Labor 1952–1955
  Labor (Anti-Communist) 1955
  Archie Todd Labor 1955–1958

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1955 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Archie Todd 7,701 50.1
Labor (A-C) Stan Corrigan 5,349 34.8
Liberal and Country John Talbot 1,972 12.8
Communist Laurence Troy 340 2.2
Total formal votes 15,362 95.9
Informal votes 657 4.1
Turnout 16,019 93.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Archie Todd 8,492 55.3
Labor (A-C) Stan Corrigan 6,870 44.7
Labor hold Swing
1952 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stan Corrigan 19,942 91.1 +14.9
Communist Albert Bull 1,939 8.9 +3.8
Total formal votes 21,881 96.8 −1.2
Informal votes 716 3.2 +1.2
Turnout 22,597 91.2 −2.2
Labor hold Swing N/A
1952 Port Melbourne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stan Corrigan 16,353 78.93 +2.78
Liberal and Country Kenneth Cole 2,730 13.18 −5.60
Communist William Bird 1,636 7.90 +2.82
Total formal votes 20,719 97.95 −0.03
Informal votes 433 2.05 +0.03
Turnout 21,152 84.0 −9.0
Labor hold Swing +2.78
1950 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Corrigan 18,598 76.2 +7.3
Liberal and Country Alex Taylor 4,587 18.8 -6.1
Communist Ralph Gibson 1,239 5.1 -1.1
Total formal votes 24,424 98.0 +0.4
Informal votes 503 2.0 −0.4
Turnout 24,927 93.4 +0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Tom Corrigan 19,713 80.7 +6.5
Liberal and Country Alex Taylor 4,711 19.3 -6.5
Labor hold Swing +6.5

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Corrigan 17,446 68.9 -7.5
Liberal Stanley Evans 6,315 24.9 +24.9
Communist Ralph Gibson 1,575 6.2 -17.4
Total formal votes 25,336 97.6 +2.3
Informal votes 622 2.4 −2.3
Turnout 25,958 93.0 +6.9
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1945 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Corrigan 16,777 76.4
Communist Ralph Gibson 5,177 23.6
Total formal votes 21,954 95.3
Informal votes 1,076 4.7
Turnout 23,030 86.1
Labor hold Swing
1943 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Corrigan 11,644 61.2 -38.8
Communist John Blake 7,384 38.8 +38.8
Total formal votes 19,028 95.8
Informal votes 828 4.2
Turnout 19,856 87.6
Labor hold Swing N/A
1942 Port Melbourne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Corrigan 10,156 59.6 -40.4
Communist John Blake 6,890 40.4 +40.4
Total formal votes 17,046 97.5
Informal votes 432 2.5
Turnout 17,478 80.4
Labor hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy 15,014 76.2 +2.4
Independent Mary Jones 4,703 23.8 -2.4
Total formal votes 19,717 98.2 +0.9
Informal votes 354 1.8 −0.9
Turnout 20,071 93.8 +0.9
Labor hold Swing +2.4
1935 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy 14,844 73.8 -26.2
Independent Mary Jones 5,258 26.2 +26.2
Total formal votes 20,102 97.3
Informal votes 567 2.7
Turnout 20,669 92.9
Labor hold Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy 16,648 89.5 -10.5
Communist Thomas Le Huray 1,962 10.5 +10.5
Total formal votes 18,610 96.7
Informal votes 637 3.3
Turnout 19,247 90.4
Labor hold Swing N/A
1927 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1924 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1921 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1920 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy 7,062 67.9 +13.6
Independent Owen Sinclair 3,337 32.1 +10.0
Total formal votes 10,399 98.6 +1.7
Informal votes 151 1.4 −1.7
Turnout 10,550 65.8 +5.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Murphy 5,242 54.3
Nationalist James Crichton 2,202 22.8
Independent Labor Owen Sinclair 2,134 22.1
Independent Labor Henry Sanderson 74 0.8
Total formal votes 9,652 96.9
Informal votes 306 3.1
Turnout 9,958 60.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Murphy 71.5
Nationalist James Crichton 28.5
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1915 Port Melbourne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Owen Sinclair unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1914 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Sangster unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1911 Victorian state election: Port Melbourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Sangster 6,295 82.0 N/A
Independent Liberal Reuben Kefford 1,382 18.0 +18.0
Total formal votes 7,677 98.6
Informal votes 108 1.4
Turnout 7,785 50.6
Labor hold Swing N/A

References

  1. ^ 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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