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Electoral results for the district of Kara Kara and Borung

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Victoria, Australia, district election results

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Kara Kara and Borung in Victorian state elections.

Members for Kara Kara and Borung

Member Party Term
  John Pennington Nationalist 1927–1931
  United Australia 1931–1935
  Finlay Cameron Country 1935–1945

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1943 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Finlay Cameron 5,147 60.9 +10.7
Labor Arthur Ackland 3,302 39.1 +39.1
Total formal votes 8,449 99.1 0.0
Informal votes 78 0.9 0.0
Turnout 8,527 88.6 −6.7
Country hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Finlay Cameron 5,117 50.2 −10.2
Country Patrick Toohey 2,678 26.3 +26.3
Independent John Green 2,390 23.5 −16.1
Total formal votes 10,185 99.1 −0.3
Informal votes 94 0.9 +0.3
Turnout 10,279 95.3 +1.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Finlay Cameron 56.1 −4.3
Country Patrick Toohey 43.9 +43.9
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Two candidate preferred vote was estimated.

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Finlay Cameron 6,248 60.4 +32.8
Independent John Green 4,093 39.6 +22.5
Total formal votes 10,341 99.4 +0.8
Informal votes 145 1.4 −0.8
Turnout 10,405 94.1 −0.6
Country hold Swing N/A
1935 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia John Pennington 4,187 40.3 −33.2
Country Finlay Cameron 2,867 27.6 +27.6
Independent John Green 1,777 17.1 +17.1
Country William Pearse 1,560 15.0 +15.0
Total formal votes 10,391 98.6 −0.9
Informal votes 145 1.4 +0.9
Turnout 10,536 94.7 −1.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Finlay Cameron 5,455 52.5 +52.5
United Australia John Pennington 4,936 47.5 −26.0
Country gain from United Australia Swing N/A
1932 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia John Pennington 7,370 73.5 +14.0
Labor Carl Adler 2,661 26.5 +26.5
Total formal votes 10,031 99.5 0.0
Informal votes 54 0.5 0.0
Turnout 10,085 96.0 +4.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist John Pennington 5,915 59.5 +14.2
Country Progressive Alexander Dowsley 4,026 40.5 +11.2
Total formal votes 9,941 99.5 +2.1
Informal votes 56 0.5 −2.1
Turnout 9,997 91.6 +0.8
Nationalist hold Swing +5.1
1927 Victorian state election: Kara Kara and Borung
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist John Pennington 4,217 45.3
Country Progressive Finlay Cameron 2,732 29.3
Country William Pearce 2,368 25.4
Total formal votes 9,317 97.4
Informal votes 250 2.6
Turnout 9,567 90.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist John Pennington 5,068 54.4
Country Progressive Finlay Cameron 4,249 45.6
Nationalist hold Swing

References

  1. Hughes, Colin A. (1975). Voting for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 070811332X.
Electoral results for the former districts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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