Electoral results for the district of Geelong explained

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Geelong in Victorian state elections.

Members for Geelong

First incarnation (1856–1859, 4 members)
Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term
Sir Charles Sladen	1856–1857	Alexander Fyfe	1856–1857	Charles Read	1856–1858	John Brooke	1856–1859
Alexander Thomson	1857–1859	George Board	1858–1859	James Harrison	1858–1859

Second incarnation (1877–1889, 3 members)
Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term
Charles Kernot	1877–1880	Robert de Bruce Johnstone	1877–1881	Sir Graham Berry	1877–1886
Charles Andrews Sr.	1880
Charles Kernot	1880–1882	George Cunningham	1881–1886
Joseph Connor	1882–1886
John Donaghy	1886–1889	James Munro	1886–1889	Charles Andrews Sr.	1886–1889

Third incarnation (1889–1904, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
James Munro	1889–1892	Charles Andrews Sr.	1889–1894
John Rout Hopkins	1892–1894
H. B. Higgins	1894–1900	William Gurr	1894–1902
Charles Andrews Jr.	1900–1904	George Martin	1902–1904

Fourth incarnation (1904–1976, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
		William Colechin	Labor	1904–1907
		William Gurr	Ministerialist	1907–1908
		William Plain	Labor	1908–1916
			Nationalist	1916–1917
		Robert Purnell	Nationalist	1917–1920
		William Brownbill	Labor	1920–1932
		Edward Austin	United Australia	1932–1935
		William Brownbill	Labor	1935–1938
		Fanny Brownbill	Labor	1938–1948
		Edward Montgomery	Liberal	1948–1950
		James Dunn	Labor	1950–1955
		Sir Thomas Maltby	Liberal	1955–1961
		Hayden Birrell	Liberal	1961–1976
Fifth incarnation (1985–present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
		Hayden Shell	Labor	1985–1992
		Ann Henderson	Liberal	1992–1999
		Ian Trezise	Labor	1999–2014
		Christine Couzens	Labor	2014–present

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

References

• Web site: Geelong District results . Victorian Electoral Commission . 21 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321155532/http://vec.vic.gov.au/Results/GeelongDistrictResults.html . 21 March 2012 .