Electoral results for the district of Ballarat East

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

Members for Ballarat East

First incarnation (1859–1889)
MemberPartyTerm
  John Humffray Unaligned 1859–1864
  John Cathie Unaligned 1859–1864
  Charles Jones Unaligned 1864–1867
  Charles Dyte Unaligned 1864–1871
  John Humffray Unaligned 1868–1871
  John James Unaligned 1871–1886
  Robert Walsh Unaligned 1871–1874
  Townsend McDermott Unaligned 1874–1877
  Daniel Brophy Unaligned 1877–1880
  James Russell Unaligned 1880
  Daniel Brophy Unaligned 1880–1883
  James Russell Unaligned 1883–1889
  Edward Murphy Unaligned 1886–1889
Second incarnation (1889–1927)
MemberPartyTerm
  John Dunn Comm Liberal 1889–1894
  Robert McGregor Comm Liberal 1894–1924
  Nationalist
  William McAdam Labor 1924–1927
Third incarnation (1992–present)
MemberPartyTerm
  Barry Traynor Liberal 1992–1999
  Geoff Howard Labor 1999–2014

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Victorian state election, 2010: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Ben Taylor 15,758 43.40 +9.80
Labor Geoff Howard 14,076 38.77 -4.18
Greens Linda Zibell 5,363 14.77 +3.01
Family First Gary Greville 1,109 3.05 -2.03
Total formal votes 36,306 95.69 -0.47
Informal votes 1,636 4.31 +0.47
Turnout 37,942 93.50 +1.58
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Geoff Howard 18,702 51.51 -5.13
Liberal Ben Taylor 17,604 48.49 +5.13
Labor hold Swing -5.13

Elections in the 2000s

Victorian state election, 2006: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Geoff Howard 14,292 42.95 -5.87
Liberal Geoff Hayes 11,183 33.60 -2.44
Greens Michele Harvie 3,915 11.76 -1.36
Independent Dianne Hadden 2,199 6.61 +6.61
Family First Grace Bailey 1,690 5.08 +5.08
Total formal votes 33,279 96.16 -0.82
Informal votes 1,328 3.84 +0.82
Turnout 34,607 91.92 -2.27
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Geoff Howard 18,850 56.64 -0.97
Liberal Geoff Hayes 14,429 43.36 +0.97
Labor hold Swing -0.97
Victorian state election, 2002: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Geoff Howard 16,268 48.62 -5.07
Liberal Gerard FitzGerald 12,010 36.04 -10.27
Greens Scott Kinnear 4,373 13.12 +13.12
Independent Suresh Pathy 402 1.21 +1.21
CEC Valiant Halborg 271 0.81 +0.81
Total formal votes 33,324 96.98 -0.72
Informal votes 1,037 3.02 +0.72
Turnout 34,361 94.19
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Geoff Howard 19,300 57.80 +4.11
Liberal Gerard FitzGerald 14,092 42.20 -4.11
Labor hold Swing +4.11

Elections in the 1990s

Victorian state election, 1999: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Geoff Howard 16,100 53.7 +3.7
Liberal Barry Traynor 13,886 46.3 -3.7
Total formal votes 29,986 97.7 -0.7
Informal votes 706 2.3 +0.7
Turnout 30,692 94.4
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.7
Victorian state election, 1996: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Barry Traynor 14,232 48.3 -1.9
Labor Frank Sheehan 14,110 47.9 +2.4
Independent Ralph Manno 481 1.6 +1.6
Call to Australia Ray Suttie 415 1.4 +1.4
Natural Law Alan McDonald 241 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 29,479 98.4 +0.9
Informal votes 473 1.6 -0.9
Turnout 29,952 94.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Barry Traynor 14,736 50.1 -1.6
Labor Frank Sheehan 14,709 49.9 +1.6
Liberal hold Swing -1.6
Victorian state election, 1992: Ballarat East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Barry Traynor 14,133 50.1 +5.9
Labor Frank Sheehan 12,818 45.5 -0.5
Independent Petra Krjutschkow 1,242 4.4 +4.4
Total formal votes 28,193 97.5 +0.0
Informal votes 716 2.5 -0.0
Turnout 28,909 95.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Barry Traynor 14,529 51.6 +1.1
Labor Frank Sheehan 13,654 48.4 -1.1
Liberal hold Swing +1.1

References

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