Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932
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from 1929 to 1932, as elected at the 1929 state election. Several realignments took place during the period: * The Country Progressive Party re-merged with the Country Party in 1930. Harold Glowrey remained as an Independent. * The Nationalist Party was renamed the
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(UAP) on 15 September 1931, to match the situation at federal level. * During the 1932 election campaign, several Labor members, including the premier, Edmond Hogan, were expelled from the Victorian Labor Party for supporting the
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. : In August 1930, the Nationalist member for Hawthorn, former
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William Murray McPherson, resigned. Nationalist candidate John Austin Gray won the resulting by-election on 27 September 1930. : In October 1930, the Liberal member for Caulfield, Frederick Forrest, died. Nationalist candidate and Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Harold Luxton, won the resulting by-election on 22 November 1930.


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