Victorian state election, 1943

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12 June 1943 (1943-06-12)

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Albert Dunstan	John Cain	Thomas Hollway
Party	United Country	Labor	United Australia
Leader since	14 March 1935	18 October 1937	3 December 1940
Leader's seat	Korong and Eaglehawk	Northcote	Ballarat
Last election	22 seats	22 seats	16 seats
Seats won	25 seats	22 seats	13 seats
Seat change	3	0	3
Percentage	14.39%	36.13%	23.07%
Swing	0.23	2.96	12.34

Premier before election

Albert Dunstan
United Country

Elected Premier

Albert Dunstan
United Country

The 1943 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 12 June 1943 to elect 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

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 was expelled from the state branch of the party. The splinter group which supported McEwen had formed the Liberal Country Party 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.

Victorian state election, 12 June 1943
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