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Victorian state election, 1929

Victorian state election, 1929
Victoria (Australia)
← 1927 30 November 1929 (1929-11-30) 1932 →

45 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Edmond Hogan William McPherson John Allan
Party Labor Nationalist Country
Leader since 1927
Leader's seat Warrenheip and Grenville Hawthorn Rodney
Last election 28 seats 15 seats 10 seats
Seats before 28 seats 17 seats 10 seats
Seats won 30 seats 17 seats 11 seats
Seat change Increase 2 Steady 0 Increase 1
Percentage 39.09% 38.26% 8.83%
Swing Decrease 2.70 Increase 7.37 Increase 0.70

Premier before election

William McPherson
Country

Elected Premier

Edmond Hogan
Labor


William McPherson
Country

Edmond Hogan
Labor

The 1929 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 30 November 1929 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The other 20 seats were uncontested.

The Nationalist Party had gained two seats in the Assembly since the previous election, having won two by-elections in seats held by independents. Henry Bodman (Gippsland South) died on 2 November 1927, and Walter West won the seat for the Nationalists on 3 December.Speaker Oswald Snowball (Brighton), who had been disendorsed by the Nationalists in the previous election after voting against the redistribution bill, had rejoined the Nationalists since but died on 16 March 1928. Ian Macfarlan won the seat in the by-election on 24 April 1928.

Victorian state election, 30 November 1929
Legislative Assembly
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