Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932 explained

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1932, as elected at the 1929 state election.

Several realignments took place during the period:

• The Country Progressive Party re-merged with the Country Party in 1930. Harold Glowrey remained as an Independent.
• The Nationalist Party was renamed the United Australia Party (UAP) on 15 September 1931, to match the situation at federal level.^[1]
• During the 1932 election campaign, several Labor members including the Premier, Edmond Hogan, were expelled from the Victorian Labor Party for supporting the Premiers' Plan.

Name	Party	Electorate	Term in office
			1917–1936
	Country Progressive/Country		1927–1945
			1911–1934
	Nationalist		1920–1940
	Labor/Independent		1914–1932; 1935–1950
	Nationalist		1917–1932
	Country		1929–1950
	Labor		1914–1917; 1927–1934
	Labor/Independent		1924–1943
	Country		1920–1936
	Labor		1920–1932; 1935–1938
	Labor		1917–1957
	Country Progressive/Country		1927–1936
	Labor		1924–1945
	Labor		1908–1945
	Nationalist		1927–1943
	Labor		1929–1932; 1934–1945
	Country		1929–1945
	Country		1929–1932
	Labor		1927–1932
	Country Progressive/Country		1920–1950
	Nationalist		1917–1950
			1927–1930
	Labor		1920–1942
	Country Progressive/Ind.		1927–1932
			1927–1932
	Nationalist		1930–1939
	Labor		1924–1955
	Labor		1924–1932
	Labor/Independent		1913–1943
	Labor		1925–1955
	Nationalist		1927–1949
	Country		1929–1970
	Labor/Independent		1924–1932
	Labor		1910–1949
	Labor		1924–1940
	Nationalist		1927–1960
	Labor		1904–1955
	Country		1920–1961
	Nationalist		1927–1933
	Nationalist		1930–1935
	Labor		1924–1932
	Nationalist		1917–1933
	Nationalist		1928–1945
	Labor		1927–1947
	Country		1920–1945
	Independent		1908–1938
	Nationalist		1913–1930
	Nationalist		1929–1961
	Nationalist		1929–1935
	Nationalist		1929–1934
	Country		1927–1945
	Labor		1917–1942
	Country		1919–1945
	Nationalist		1889–1933
	Nationalist		1913–1917; 1918–1935
	Labor		1924–1932
	Labor		1894–1897; 1900–1926; 1927–1937
	Labor		1927–1932; 1937–1947
	Labor		1929–1932
	Labor		1917–1947
	Labor		1904–1906; 1908–1932
	Nationalist		1897–1935
	Labor		1903–1904; 1907–1920; 1921–1947
	Labor/Independent		1919–1927; 1929–1932
	Labor		1912–1932
	Country		1920–1935

In August 1930, the Nationalist member for Hawthorn, former Premier William Murray McPherson, resigned. Nationalist candidate John Austin Gray won the resulting by-election on 27 September 1930.

In October 1930, the Liberal member for Caulfield, Frederick Forrest, died. Nationalist candidate and Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Harold Luxton, won the resulting by-election on 22 November 1930.

Sources

• Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.

References

1. News: State Nationalists: New Name Adopted. 16 September 1931. The Melbourne Argus.