Victorian state election, 1935

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2 March 1935 (1935-03-02)

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53 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Sir Stanley Argyle	Murray Bourchier	Tom Tunnecliffe
Party	United Australia	United Country	Labor
Leader since	3 September 1930	27 June 1933	14 July 1932
Leader's seat	Toorak	Goulburn Valley	Collingwood
Last election	31 seats	14 seats	16 seats
Seats before	29 seats	17 seats	16 seats
Seats won	25 seats	20 seats	17 seats
Seat change	4	3	1
Percentage	36.17%	13.71%	37.93%
Swing	3.95	1.38	2.79

Premier before election

Sir Stanley Argyle
United Australia

Elected Premier

Sir Stanley Argyle
United Australia

The 1935 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 2 March 1935 to elect 53 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. 12 seats were uncontested.

At the 1932 state election, the United Australia Party won 31 seats, the United Country Party won 16 seats, and the Australian Labor Party won 14 seats. Sine the election the UAP had lost two seats to the UCP in by-elections: Benambra on 15 October 1932, and Gunbower on 1 May 1934.

On 16 May 1933, the UAP member for Waranga, Ernest Coyle, resigned from that party and defected to the UCP.

James Vinton Smith was unendorsed by the UAP at the time of the 1932 election, and won the seat of Oakleigh as an Independent, but was fully endorsed by the party at the 1935 election.

At the end of the Parliament, the United Australia Party held 29 seats (down from 31), the United Country Party held 19 seats (up from 16), and the ALP held 14 seats (unchanged).

Victorian state election, 2 March 1935
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