Election Name: | 1943 Victorian state election |
Country: | Victoria |
Flag Year: | 1901 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1940 Victorian state election |
Previous Year: | 1940 |
Next Election: | 1945 Victorian state election |
Next Year: | 1945 |
Seats For Election: | 51 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly |
Leader1: | Albert Dunstan |
Leader Since1: | 14 March 1935 |
Party1: | United Country Party (Australia) |
Leaders Seat1: | Korong and Eaglehawk |
Percentage1: | 14.39% |
Swing1: | 0.23 |
Last Election1: | 22 seats |
Seats1: | 25 seats |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Leader2: | John Cain |
Leader Since2: | 18 October 1937 |
Party2: | Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) |
Leaders Seat2: | Northcote |
Percentage2: | 36.13% |
Swing2: | 2.96 |
Last Election2: | 22 seats |
Seats2: | 22 seats |
Seat Change2: | 0 |
Leader3: | Thomas Hollway |
Leader Since3: | 3 December 1940 |
Party3: | United Australia Party |
Colour3: | 080CAB |
Leaders Seat3: | Ballarat |
Percentage3: | 23.07% |
Swing3: | 12.34 |
Last Election3: | 16 seats |
Seats3: | 13 seats |
Seat Change3: | 3 |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Albert Dunstan |
Before Party: | United Country Party (Australia) |
After Election: | Albert Dunstan |
After Party: | United Country Party (Australia) |
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.
See also: Results of the 1943 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly).
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