1967 Victorian state election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 29 April 1967 to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council.

1967 Victorian state election

← 1964 29 April 1967 (1967-04-29) 1970 →
All 73 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 18 (of the 36) seats in the Victorian Legislative Council 37 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Sir Henry Bolte Clive Stoneham George Moss Party Liberal Labor Country Leader since 3 June 1953 7 October 1958 8 July 1964 Leader's seat Hampden Midlands Murray Valley Last election 38 seats 18 seats 10 seats Seats won 44 seats 16 seats 12 seats Seat change 6 2 2 Popular vote 589,985 596,520 136,126 Percentage 37.49% 37.90% 8.65% Swing 2.14 1.68 0.11 TPP 58.36% 41.64% TPP swing 0.67 0.67
Results in each electorate.
Premier before election Henry Bolte Liberal Elected Premier Henry Bolte Liberal

Since the previous election, the number of Legislative Assembly electorates had been increased from 66 to 73, and the number of members in the Legislative Council had been increased from 34 to 35.

The incumbent Liberal Party government, led by Premier Henry Bolte, was returned for a fifth term.

Results

Legislative Assembly

See also: Results of the 1967 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly)

Victorian state election, 29 April 1967[1] Legislative Assembly << 1964–1970 >>
Enrolled voters		1,723,981
Votes cast		1,625,239		Turnout	94.27	-0.13
Informal votes		51,384		Informal	3.16	+0.85
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor	596,520	37.90	+1.68	16	-2
	Liberal	589,985	37.49	-2.14	44	+6
	Democratic Labor	224,989	14.30	-0.68	0	±0
	Country	136,126	8.65	-0.11	12	+2
	Independent	24,301	1.55	+1.38	1	+1
	Communist	1,443	0.09	-0.16	0	±0
	Liberal Reform Group	491	0.03	+0.03	0	±0
Total		1,573,855			73
Two-party-preferred
	Liberal	918,461	58.4	–0.6
	Labor	655,394	41.6	+0.6

Legislative Council

See also: Results of the 1967 Victorian state election (Legislative Council)

Victorian state election, 29 April 1967[2] Legislative Council << 1964–1970 >>
Enrolled voters		1,723,981
Votes cast		1,625,371		Turnout	94.3	–0.1
Informal votes		59,895		Informal	3.7	+0.7
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats won	Seats held
	Liberal	602,546	38.5	–1.6	10	18
	Labor	577,613	36.9	+1.4	4	9
	Democratic Labor	223,590	14.3	–1.2	0	0
	Country	148,943	9.5	+0.6	4	8
	Independent	12,784	0.8	+0.8	0	0
Total		1,565,476			18	35

Seats changing hands

Seat	Pre-1967				Swing	Post-1967
	Party		Member	Margin		Margin	Member	Party
Coburg		Labor	Charlie Mutton	6.9	-15.7	8.8	Jack Mutton	Independent
Lowan		Liberal	Jim McCabe	-6.0	+3.3	2.7	Ray Buckley	Country
Moonee Ponds		Liberal	Jack Holden	2.9	-4.2	1.3	Tom Edmunds	Labor

• Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats.
• Lowan became a notional Country party seat in the redistribution before the election.

Post-election pendulum

Liberal seats (44)
Marginal
Bendigo	Robert Trethewey	LIB	0.7%
Morwell	Archie Tanner	LIB	1.3%
Dundas	William McDonald	LIB	2.0%
Dandenong	Len Reid	LIB	3.2%
Greensborough	Monte Vale	LIB	3.3%
Portland	Don McKellar	LIB	3.6%
Heatherton	Norman Billing	LIB	3.8%
Prahran	Sam Loxton	LIB	3.8%
Mentone	Bill Templeton	LIB	5.3%
Essendon	Kenneth Wheeler	LIB	5.4%
Ballarat South	Bill Stephen	LIB	5.6%
Fairly safe
Mitcham	Dorothy Goble	LIB	7.0%
Ivanhoe	Vernon Christie	LIB	7.2%
Oakleigh	Alan Scanlan	LIB	8.0%
Geelong	Hayden Birrell	LIB	9.6%
Hawthorn	Walter Jona	LIB	9.6%
Frankston	Edward Meagher	LIB	9.8%
Safe
Scoresby	Geoff Hayes	LIB	10.0%
Bennettswood	Ian McLaren	LIB	10.1%
Glenhuntly	Joe Rafferty	LIB	10.1%
Evelyn	Russell Stokes	LIB	10.8%
Moorabbin	Llew Reese	LIB	10.9%
Bellarine	Aurel Smith	LIB	11.1%
Monbulk	Bill Borthwick	LIB	11.3%
Syndal	Ray Wiltshire	LIB	12.0%
St Kilda	Brian Dixon	LIB	12.1%
Bentleigh	Bob Suggett	LIB	12.2%
Ringwood	Jim Manson	LIB	12.8%
Caulfield	Edgar Tanner	LIB	13.8%
Ballarat North	Tom Evans	LIB	14.5%
Box Hill	George Reid	LIB	14.5%
Gisborne	Julian Doyle	LIB	15.2%
Sandringham	Murray Porter	LIB	15.5%
Narracan	Jim Balfour	LIB	16.0%
Balwyn	Alex Taylor	LIB	18.2%
Dromana	Roberts Dunstan	LIB	18.4%
Glen Iris	Jim MacDonald	LIB	18.5%
Warrnambool	Ian Smith	LIB	19.4%
Kew	Arthur Rylah	LIB	20.3%
Brighton	John Rossiter	LIB	21.2%
Camberwell	Vernon Wilcox	LIB	21.7%
Hampden	Henry Bolte	LIB	21.8%
Malvern	John Bloomfield	LIB	24.2%
Polwarth	Tom Darcy	LIB	27.6%

Labor seats (16)
Marginal
Midlands	Clive Stoneham	ALP	1.0%
Brunswick West	Campbell Turnbull	ALP	1.2%
Moonee Ponds	Tom Edmunds	ALP	1.3%
Preston	Charlie Ring	ALP	3.5%
Fairly safe
Northcote	Frank Wilkes	ALP	6.5%
Deer Park	Jack Ginifer	ALP	6.8%
Broadmeadows	John Wilton	ALP	7.9%
Reservoir	Harry Jenkins	ALP	9.3%
Safe
Brunswick East	Leo Fennessy	ALP	11.0%
Geelong North	Neil Trezise	ALP	11.0%
Melbourne	Arthur Clarey	ALP	11.9%
Albert Park	Keith Sutton	ALP	12.5%
Sunshine	Denis Lovegrove	ALP	12.7%
Richmond	Clyde Holding	ALP	14.8%
Footscray	Bill Divers	ALP	17.9%
Williamstown	Larry Floyd	ALP	18.4%
Country seats (12)
Shepparton	Neil McInnes	CP	1.9% v IND
Lowan	Ray Buckley	CP	2.7% v LIB
Gippsland West	Leslie Cochrane	CP	11.4% v LIB
Kara Kara	Bill Phelan	CP	12.6% v LIB
Mildura	Milton Whiting	CP	17.4%
Gippsland East	Bruce Evans	CP	25.0%
Benambra	Tom Mitchell	CP	26.8%
Benalla	Tom Trewin	CP	27.6%
Murray Valley	George Moss	CP	27.7%
Gippsland South	Herbert Hyland	CP	28.4%
Swan Hill	Harold Stirling	CP	31.7%
Rodney	Russell McDonald	CP	33.9%
Crossbench seats (1)
Coburg	Jack Mutton	IND	8.8% v ALP

See also

• Candidates of the 1967 Victorian state election

References

1. Election held on 29 April 1967, Australian Politics and Elections Database (University of Western Australia).
2. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1967". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 29 September 2015.