The 1907 Victorian state election was held in the
Australian state
The states and territories are federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the federal government and local governments. States are self-governing ...
of
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
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on Friday, 15 March 1907 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's
Legislative Assembly.
The other 20 seats were uncontested.
The election was in one member districts, using
first past the post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
(plurality) voting.
Background
Ministerialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government.
Results
Legislative Assembly
See also
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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1907–1908
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 15 March 1907 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 29 December 1908.
:Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Asse ...
References
1907 elections in Australia
Elections in Victoria (Australia)
1900s in Victoria (Australia)
March 1907 events
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