This is a list of

members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly {{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2015 {{Use Australian English, date=June 2015 The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victorian Legislative ...

from 1943 to 1945, as elected at the 1943 state election. On 25 September 1945, a cross-party group of five United Australia members, two Country members and one Independent voted with Labor and two left-wing Independents to defeat the Dunstan Ministry. The end result, on 2 October 1945, was the swearing in of the Macfarlan Ministry and the calling of the 1945 election. : Independent Nunawading MLA

Ivy Weber Ivy Lavinia Weber (7 June 1892 – 6 March 1976) was an Australian politician. Born at Captains Flat in New South Wales to schoolteacher John Filshie and his wife Elizabeth Seaman, she was educated at the local schools, eventually becoming ...

resigned in July 1943 to contest the

Division of Henty The Division of Henty was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1913 and abolished in 1990. It was named for the Henty family of Portland, the first European settlers in Victoria. It was located in the so ...

at the 1943 federal election. Labor candidate Bob Gray won the resulting by-election in September 1943. : Country Party Waranga MLA

Ernest Coyle Ernest Augustine Coyle (2 March 1874 – 31 August 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born in Eaglehawk to blacksmith Thomas Coyle and Harriet Kate Goodfellow. Orphaned at a young age, he grew up with his grandmother in Rushworth, w ...

died on 31 August 1943. Country Party candidate

Wollaston Heily Wollaston Bruce Heily (25 February 1884 – 1 October 1963) was an Australian politician. He was born in Rushworth to medical practitioner John Vickers Heily and Annie Jack. He attended state schools and became a clerk for the Commercial Ba ...

won the resulting by-election in October 1943. : Country Party Lowan MLA

Hamilton Lamb George Hamilton Lamb (1 January 1900 – 7 December 1943) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1935 until his death in 1943, representing the electorate of Lowan for the Country Party. Early ...

died on 7 December 1943 at a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the

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in Thailand. Official notification of his death did not reach Australia until 1 September 1944, nearly nine months later. Country candidate

Wilfred Mibus Johan Wilfred John "Mick" Mibus, known as Wilfred Mibus or Mick Mibus (14 September 1900 – 18 April 1964) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party representative of the electoral district of Lowan (called Borung from 1945 to 1955 ...

won the resulting by-election on 4 November 1944. : Country Party Rodney MLA

William Dunstone William Dunstone (27 October 1877 – 12 April 1944) was an Australian politician. He was born in Newstead to farmer James Dunstone and Elizabeth Jane Winn. He grew up around Seymour, where he attended state schools and worked on his fath ...

died on 12 April 1944. Country Party candidate

Richard Brose Richard Keats Brose (6 May 1897 – 14 May 1969) was an Australian politician. He was born in Colac to law clerk Joseph Frederick Brose and Ellen Elizabeth Catt. He was twice wounded serving with the AIF during World War I, and was a dairy ...

won the resulting by-election in June 1944. : Country Party Bulla and Dalhousie MLA

Reginald James Reginald Alfred John James (1 June 1893 – 27 September 1944) was an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Australia – Victoria, Country Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1943 to 1944, representing the electo ...

died on 27 September 1944. Country Party candidate Leslie Webster won the resulting by-election in November. : Labor Bendigo MLA Arthur Cook died on 10 April 1945. Labor candidate Bill Galvin won the resulting by-election on 26 May 1945. : Labor Clifton Hill MLA

Bert Cremean Herbert Michael "Bert" Cremean (8 May 1900 – 24 May 1945) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the districts of Dandenong (1929–1932) and Clifton Hill (1934–1945). He was Dep ...

died on 24 May 1945. Labor candidate

Jack Cremean John Lawrence Cremean (26 January 1907 – 11 August 1982) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk. He was secretary to federal Labor minister Arthur Calwell from 1942 to 1 ...

, his brother, won the resulting by-election on 7 July 1945. : Liberal Prahran MLA

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died on 2 July 1945. Labor candidate

Bill Quirk William J. Quirk (born September 1, 1946) is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly from 2012 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Quirk represented the California's 20th Stat ...

won the resulting by-election on 18 August 1945. : Heidelberg MLA

Henry Zwar Henry Peter Zwar, OBE (2 December 1873 – 12 January 1959) was an Australian liberal/conservative politician, local government councillor, local government head, Member of Lower House and tannery owner. Early life Zwar was born in 1873 in Br ...

announced on 8 October 1945 that he would not be an endorsed Liberal for the upcoming election and did not belong to the Liberal Party.

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(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851).

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