The 1943 Victorian state election was held in the
Australian state
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of
Victoria
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on Saturday 12 June 1943 to elect 65 members of the state's
Legislative Assembly.
Background
Country Party unity
At the time of the election, the Country Party was in the process of repairing a split which had taken place in December 1937 after federal MP
John McEwen
Sir John McEwen, (29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980) was an Australian politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Australia, holding office from 1967 to 1968 in a caretaker capacity after the disappearance of Harold Holt. He was the ...
was expelled from the state branch of the party. The splinter group which supported McEwen had formed the
Liberal Country Party
The Liberal Country Party (LCP) was a splinter group of the United Country Party, the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party, formed after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch for accepting a ministry in the Lyon ...
on 30 March 1938, which contested the
1940 state election as a separate party. By April 1943, the United Country Party and the Liberal Country Party had formed a joint executive, which had unanimously agreed to reunite the parties. Members of the LCP at the time of the election were endorsed and counted as Victorian Country Party candidates separately from the United Country Party, but the unity agreements meant that their seats were counted for Dunstan's UCP.
Results
Legislative Assembly
Notes:
*Fourteen seats were uncontested at this election, and were retained by the incumbent parties:
**Labor (7):
Bendigo,
Brunswick,
Dundas,
Flemington,
Geelong,
Northcote,
Wonthaggi
Wonthaggi is a seaside town located south east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Known originally for its coal mining, it is now the largest town in South Gippsl ...
.
**Victorian Country (6):
Gippsland East,
Goulburn Valley
The Goulburn Valley is a sub-region, part of the Hume region of the Australian state of Victoria. The sub-region consists of those areas in the catchment of the Goulburn River and other nearby streams, and is part of the Murray-Darling Basin. T ...
,
Gunbower,
Lowan,
Mornington,
Upper Goulburn
**UAP (1):
Kew
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See also
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Candidates of the 1943 Victorian state election
References
{{Victorian elections
1943 elections in Australia
Elections in Victoria (Australia)
1940s in Victoria (Australia)
June 1943 events