Victorian state election, 1904

Victorian state election, 1904
1 June 1904 (1904-06-01)
the 67 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

  First party Second party
 
Leader Thomas Bent George Prendergast
Party Reform League Australian Labour Party
Leader since 1904 1904
Leader's seat Brighton North Melbourne
Last election seats 12 seats
Seats won 35 seats 17 seats
Seat change Increase Increase 5
Percentage 36.14 32.55
Swing Increase +30.86 Increase 14.54%
Premier before election

Thomas Bent
Reform

 Elected Premier

Thomas Bent
Reform

The 1904 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on 1 June 1904 to elect 55 of the 67 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.[1] The other 12 seats were uncontested.

Since the 1902 election, the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly was reduced from 95 to 67. The election was in one and two member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.

Background

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.

Thomas Bent was elected on 16 February 1904 leader of the Commonwealth Liberal Party, replacing Premier William Irvine who went into federal politics, and went into the election as the incumbent Premier. In 1904 George Prendergast became the first leader of the Victorian Branch of the Labour Party, the party previously choosing not to have a formal leader. (At the time the Labor in the name of the party was spelt Labour.) At the June 1904 election Bent won a comfortable majority with 35 of the 67 seats, and the Labour Party became the second largest party in the Assembly with 17 seats.

Results

Legislative Assembly

Victorian state election, 1 June 1904[1]
Legislative Assembly
<< 1902–1907 >>

Enrolled voters 277,006
Votes cast 153,377 Turnout 63.38%
Informal votes 1,498 Informal
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Reform League 55,426 36.14 +30.86 35
  Labour 49,922 32.55 +14.54 17
  Opposition 37,422 24.40 +6.31 12
  Independent Ministerialists 7,554 4.93 -8.52 2
  Independent Labor 2,108 1.37 -0.50 1
  Independent 945 0.62 * 0
Total 153,377     67  

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Australian Politics and Elections Database: 1 June 1904". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 September 2016.


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