| Election Name: | 1907 Victorian state election |
| Country: | Victoria |
| Flag Year: | 1901 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1904 Victorian state election |
| Previous Year: | 1904 |
| Next Election: | 1908 Victorian state election |
| Next Year: | 1908 |
| Seats For Election: | All 65 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly 33 seats needed for a majority |
| Leader1: | Thomas Bent |
| Color1: | 8EB5D1 |
| Party1: | United Liberal |
| Leaders Seat1: | Brighton |
| Percentage1: | 51.36% |
| Swing1: | 51.36% |
| Last Election1: | New party |
| Seats1: | 51 seats |
| Seat Change1: | 51 |
| Leader3: | George Prendergast |
| Leader Since3: | 1904 |
| Party3: | Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) |
| Leaders Seat3: | North Melbourne |
| Percentage3: | 34.40% |
| Swing3: | 1.85% |
| Last Election3: | 17 seats |
| Seats3: | 14 seats |
| Seat Change3: | 3 |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Thomas Bent |
| Before Party: | United Liberal |
| After Election: | Thomas Bent |
| After Party: | United Liberal |
The 1907 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Friday, 15 March 1907 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.[1] The other 20 seats were uncontested.
The election was in one member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.
Ministerialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government.
The National Citizens' Reform League, led by Thomas Bent, had disbanded shortly after the 1904 state election, leading to the majority of Liberals and Conservatives sitting separately again.[2] [3]
Bent formed the United Liberal Party in February 1907.[2] Without Liberal Ministerialists and Liberal Oppositionists competing against each other, three-sided contests were largely eliminated, causing Labor to lose the seats of Ballarat and Geelong.[4]
| Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Liberal | 59,785 | 51.36 | +51.36 | 49 | 49 | |||
| Labor | 40,044 | 34.40 | +1.85 | 14 | 3 | |||
| Independent Ministerialists | 11,029 | 9.47 | +4.55 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Independent Labor | 2,795 | 2.40 | +1.03 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Independent | 2,754 | 2.37 | +1.75 | 0 | ||||
| Formal votes | 116,407 | 99.41 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 0.59 | |||||||
| Total | 65 | |||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 261,080 | 61.27 | −9.70 | |||||