Victorian Election 1992 1992 VICTORIAN STATE ELECTION SUMMARY OF RESULTS Introduction ....................................................................................................1 Summary of Redistribution ...........................................................................3 Legislative Assembly Results Summary of Results ..............................................................................7 Detailed Results by District ................................................................. 13 Summary of Two-Party Preferred Results ........................................... 30 Regional Summaries ........................................................................... 35 Legislative Council Results Summary of Results ............................................................................ 37 Detailed Results by Province .............................................................. 39 Summary of Two-Party Preferred Results ........................................... 43 Antony Green ABC-TV Election Unit September 1995 Victorian Election 1992 Victorian Election 1992 INTRODUCTION This paper contains a summary of the results of the 1992 elections for the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. It contains details of voting for all Assembly districts and Council provinces. Primary and two-party preferred counts are given for all electorates. The following paragraphs explain the format for the results. The results for all electorates at the 1988 election have been adjusted to fit the new electoral boundaries. All swings are calculated based on these adjusted figures. First Count: The votes shown for each candidate are the total primary votes received. Percentage votes are calculated as a percentage of the formal vote for each electorate. Swing is calculated by subtracting the percentage vote received by a party at the 1988 election from the percentage received in 1992. Where the parties contesting the district differ from 1988, ghost candidates indicated by "...." have been included representing candidates not contesting the 1992 election. As a result, all primary swings add to zero, subject to rounding errors. Final Count: Represents the two-candidate preferred count after the final distribution of preferences in an electorate. All votes which did not indicate a preference to the two remaining candidate are included in the total listed as Exhausted. Two-candidate preferred percentages are calculated by dividing the two-candidate preferred vote by the votes remaining in the count, that is the formal votes minus the total exhausted votes. Two-candidate preferred swings are shown compared to the 1988 election. Note that in the detailed results, all swing figures are compared to the 1988 election. By-elections have been ignored. All figures are based on information provided by the Victorian State Electoral Office. However, responsibility for all calculations and omissions is taken by the author. Antony Green - ABC-TV Election Unit 1 Victorian Election 1992 Symbols .. Nil or rounded to zero * Sitting Member .... 'Ghost' candidate, where party contesting in 1988 was absent in 1992 Party Abbreviations ALP Labor Party CIR Community Initiative Referendum Alliance CTA Call to Australia DLP Democratic Labor Party DEM Australian Democrats GCA Geelong Community Alliance GRN The Greens IND Independents LAW Natural Naw Party LIB Liberal Party NAT National Party OTH Others 2 Antony Green - ABC-TV Election Unit Victorian Election 1992 SUMMARY OF REDISTRIBUTION S e a t s H e l d b y P a r t y State of Parties Labor Liberal National Total Old Boundaries 46 33 9 88 New Boundaries 45 34 9 88 Summary: There were 17 abolished electorates (12 Labor, 4 Liberal, one National) and 17 new electorates (11 Labor, 5 Liberal, one Nation.) In addition, two Labor seats became notional Liberal seats and two Liberals seats became notional Labor. On the old boundaries, Labor lost its majority with the loss of three seats on a uniform swing of 0.9%. On the new boundaries the swing for Labor to lose its majority was two seats on a swing of 1.4%. Abolished Electorates (17) Name Margin Notes Ballarat North LIB 3.6 Replaced by Ballarat West. Liberal MP Stephen Elder contested Ripon. Ballarat South ALP 0.2 Replaced by Ballarat East but as a marginal Liberal electorate. Balwyn LIB 14.3 Liberal MP Robert Clark contested Box Hill. Brunswick ALP 16.7 Labor MP Tom Roper contested Coburg. Derrimut ALP 13.3 Replaced by Melton. Doveton ALP 8.3 Labor MP Rob Jolly contested Berwick. Frankston North ALP 8.8 Replaced by Frankston East. Frankston South LIB 4.9 Replaced by Frankston Greensborough ALP 6.1 Replaced by Eltham. Sitting MP Sherryl Garbutt contested Bundoora. Lowan NAT 32.0 Replaced by Wimmera Mentone ALP 2.4 Replaced by Mordialloc. Reservoir ALP 16.4 Labor MP Jim Simmonds retired Ringwood ALP 1.7 Labor MP Kay Setches contested new seat of Bayswater. St Albans ALP 12.7 Labor MP Alex Andrianopoulos contested Mill Park. St Kilda ALP 5.6 Labor MP and Minister Andrew McCutcheon retired after being unable to find a winnable seat to contest. Syndal LIB 0.7 Liberal MP Geoffrey Coleman contested Bennettswood. Whittlesea ALP 4.7 Labor MP Max McDonald retired. New Electorates (17) Name Margin Notes Altona ALP 14.8 New seat with no sitting MP Ballarat East LIB 0.5 Replaced Ballarat South. Notionally Liberal held on the new boundaries, it was contested by sitting Labor MP Frank Sheehan. Ballarat West LIB 1.7 Replaced Ballarat North. Sitting Liberal MP Stepehen Elder contested Ripon. Bayswater ALP 3.0 Contested by Kay Setches, Labor MP for the abolished seat of Ringwood. Cranbourne ALP 1.4 New seat with no sitting MP Eltham ALP 4.6 Replaced Greensborough. Sitting Labor MP Sherryl Garbutt contested Bundoora. Frankston LIB 6.1 Replaced Frankston South and re-contested by Liberal MP Graeme Weiderman Frankston East ALP 6.4 Replaced Frankston North and re-contested by Labor MP Jane Hill Melton ALP 12.2 Replaced Derrimut and re-contested by Labor MP David Cunnungham Mill Park ALP 20.7 Contested by Alex Andrianopoulos, Labor MP for the abolished seat of St Albans. Mordialloc ALP 2.2 Replaced Mentone and contested by Labor MP Peter Spyker. Also contested by Liberal MP for Malvern Geoff Leigh. Mooroolbark ALP 1.9 New seat with no sitting MP Antony Green - ABC-TV Election Unit 3 Victorian Election 1992 New Electorates (17) - continued Name Margin Notes Pakenham LIB 3.4 Contested by Rob Maclellan, Liberal MP for Berwick. Seymour LIB 2.8 Contested by Liberal Central Highlands MLC Marie Tehan. Tullamarine ALP 4.9 Contested by Labor MP for Coburg Peter Gavin. Wimmera NAT 27.6 Replaced Lowan and contested by sitting MP Bill McGrath. Yan Yean ALP 7.5 New seat with no sitting MP Continuing Electorates (71) Name Old Margin New Margin Notes Albert Park ALP 8.9 ALP 10.4 Labor MP Ron 'Bunna' Walsh contested Monash Province. Bellarine ALP 0.7 LIB 1.1 Became a notional Liberal seat but re-contested by sitting Labor MP Graha Ernst. Benalla NAT 18.0 NAT 20.6 Benambra LIB 21.6 LIB 21.9 Liberal MP Lou Lieberman had won Liberal endorsement for the Federal seat of Indi and did not contest the election. Bendigo East LIB 5.7 LIB 5.1 Bendigo West ALP 0.9 ALP 1.6 Bennettswood LIB 2.2 LIB 3.3 Sitting Liberal MP Roger Pescott failed to win Federal pre-selection, then lost the selection ballot for Bennettswood to Geoffrey Coleman, whose seat of Syndal had been abolished. Pescott contested the Labor seat of Mitcham. Bentleigh ALP 1.4 ALP 1.5 Berwick LIB 1.4 ALP 4.6 The new Berwick largely consisted of the abolished seat of Doveton, with Doveton's Labor MP Rob Jolly . contesting Berwick. Much of the old Berwick became the new seat of Pakenham and was contested by sitting Berwick Liberal MP Rob Maclellan. Box Hill ALP 2.1 LIB 7.0 An amalgamation of Labor held Box Hill and Liberal held Balwyn. Contested by both seat's sitting MPs, Labor's Margaret Ray from Box Hill and Liberal Robert Clark from Balwyn. Brighton LIB 13.1 LIB 12.6 Broadmeadows ALP 9.9 ALP 12.6 Bulleen LIB 9.2 LIB 9.2 Bundoora ALP 10.2 ALP 9.1 Labor MP and former Premier John Cain retired. Contested by Greensborough Labor MP Sherryl Garbutt. Burwood LIB 5.6 LIB 2.2 Carrum ALP 7.5 ALP 6.6 Caulfield LIB 5.1 LIB 4.2 Clayton ALP 8.9 ALP 11.0 Coburg ALP 15.3 ALP 15.7 Absorbed much of the abolished seat of Brunswick. Coburg MP Peter Gavin contested the new outer suburban seat of Tullamarine, while Coburg was contested by Brunswick MP Tom Roper. Dandenong ALP 12.6 ALP 11.2 Labor MP Terry Norris retired. Dandenong North ALP 8.1 ALP 8.0 Doncaster LIB 7.4 LIB 7.4 Dromana LIB 1.8 LIB 1.2 Liberal MP Ron Wells lost Liberal endorsement and contested Eumemmering Province. Essendon ALP 6.7 ALP 5.4 Retiring Labor MP Barry Rowe contested Gisborne. Evelyn LIB 4.0 LIB 3.3 Footscray ALP 23.7 ALP 22.3 Labor MP Rob Fordham retired. Forest Hill LIB 2.9 LIB 3.5 4 Antony Green - ABC-TV Election Unit Victorian Election 1992 Continuing Electorates (71) - continued Name Old Margin New Margin Notes Geelong ALP 2.5 ALP 2.6 Geelong North ALP 14.0 ALP 14.1 Labor MP Neil 'Nipper' Trezise retired. Gippsland East NAT 19.4 NAT 19.2 National MP Bruce Evans retired. Gippsland South NAT 20.2 NAT 21.0 National MP Tom Wallace retired but chose to contest Labor held Morwell. Gippsland West LIB 12.6 LIB 12.4 Gisborne LIB 6.4 LIB 7.4 The Labor candidate was retiring Labor MP for Essendon Barry Rowe. Glen Waverley LIB 8.5 LIB 7.2 Hawthorn LIB 8.0 LIB 8.8 Ivanhoe LIB 2.4 ALP 3.9 Became a notional Labor seats but re-contested by Liberal MP Vin Heffernan. Keilor ALP 11.4 ALP 10.5 Kew LIB 11.0 LIB 12.2 Knox ALP 6.0 ALP 5.0 Labor MP Steve Crabb retired.