Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1943–1945
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly:* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864...

from 1943 to 1945, as elected at the 1943 state election.

On 25 September 1945, a cross-party group of five United Australia members, two Country members and one Independent voted with Labor and two left-wing Independents to defeat the Dunstan Ministry. The end result, on 2 October 1945, was the swearing in of the Macfarlan Ministry and the calling of the 1945 election.
Name Party Electorate
Electoral districts of Victoria
The Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the Australian State, is elected from 88 single-member electorates called districts.-Current districts:This is a list of districts .* Electoral district of Albert Park* Electoral district of Altona...

Term in office
Albert Allnutt  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

/Min.
Mildura
Electoral district of Mildura
Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 27,162 km² rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale...

 
1927–1945
Hon Henry Bailey
Henry Bailey (Australian politician)
Henry Stephen Bailey was an Australian politician.Born in Ballarat East to stoker Thomas William Bailey and Margaret Kemple, he attended state school and St Patrick's College before becoming a law clerk at Ballarat and Port Fairy...

 
Country Warrnambool
Electoral district of Warrnambool
The Electoral district of Warrnambool was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Warrnambool:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1914–1932, 1935–1950
William Barry
William Barry (Australian politician)
William Peter Barry was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Carlton from July 1932 until April 1955...

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
Carlton  1932–1955
Matthew Bennett  Country Gippsland West
Electoral district of Gippsland West
ĦThe electoral district of Gippsland West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Gippsland West:-External links:...

 
1929–1950
Richard Brose Country Rodney
Electoral district of Rodney
The Electoral district of Rodney is a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.The Rodney District covers an area of 7,808 square kilometres, including the towns of Echuca, Rochester, Nathalia, Cohuna, Heathcote, Gunbower, Kyabram, Rushworth and Stanhope.The district...

 
1944–1964
Fanny Brownbill
Fanny Brownbill
Fanny Eileen Brownbill was an Australian state politician, serving as the Labor Party Member for Geelong, Victoria, serving from 1938 until her death in 1948...

 
Labor Geelong
Electoral district of Geelong
The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong...

 
1938–1948
John Cain
John Cain (senior)
John Cain was an Australian politician, who became the 34th premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was the only premier of Victoria whose son also served as premier.-Early life:Cain was born, one of 18...

 
Labor Northcote
Electoral district of Northcote
The Electoral district of Northcote is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently covers the suburbs of Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, and part of Preston. It lies on the northern bank of the Yarra River between the Merri and Darebin creeks.The seat...

 
1917–1957
Finlay Cameron  Country Kara Kara and Borung
Electoral district of Kara Kara and Borung
The Electoral district of Kara Kara and Borung was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Kara Kara and Borung:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories...

 
1935–1945
Arthur Cook  Labor Bendigo  1924–1945
Frederick Cook  McEwen Country Benalla
Electoral district of Benalla
Benalla is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The electorate covers a rural area of 17,120 km², and includes the towns of Benalla, Bright, Eildon, Euroa, Mansfield, Mount Beauty, Murchison, Myrtleford, Nagambie and Violet Town...

 
1936–1961
Tom Corrigan  Labor Port Melbourne
Electoral district of Port Melbourne
Electoral district of Port Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Port Melbourne:...

 
1942–1952
Ned Cotter  Labor Richmond  1908–1945
Ernest Coyle Country Waranga  1927–1943
Herbert Cremean  Labor Clifton Hill
Electoral district of Clifton Hill
Electoral district of Clifton Hill was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Clifton Hill:...

 
1929–1945
William Cumming  United Australia
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

/Min.
Hampden
Electoral district of Hampden
Hampden was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1904 until its abolision on 1976. Most of the territory located in the old division of Hampden was transferred into the re-created electorate of Ripon. Hampden's most notable member was the...

 
1935–1945
Patrick Denigan  Labor Allandale
Electoral district of Allandale
The electoral district of Allandale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Allandale:...

 
1936–1945
Lot Diffey  Country Wangaratta and Ovens  1929–1945
Keith Dodgshun  Country Ouyen
Electoral district of Ouyen
The Electoral district of Ouyen was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Ouyens:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1938–1955
Hon Albert Dunstan
Albert Dunstan
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG was an Australian politician. A member of the Country Party , Dunstan was the 33rd Premier of Victoria. His term as Premier was the second-longest in the state's history, behind Sir Henry Bolte...

 
Country Korong and Eaglehawk
Electoral district of Korong and Eaglehawk
Electoral district of Korong and Eaglehawk was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Korong and Eaglehawk:...

 
1920–1950
William Dunstone Country Rodney
Electoral district of Rodney
The Electoral district of Rodney is a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.The Rodney District covers an area of 7,808 square kilometres, including the towns of Echuca, Rochester, Nathalia, Cohuna, Heathcote, Gunbower, Kyabram, Rushworth and Stanhope.The district...

 
1936–1944
John Ellis  United Australia Prahran
Electoral district of Prahran
Prahran is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 12km² electorate in the inner south-east of Melbourne, taking in the suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor, as well as parts of Balaclava, St Kilda, St Kilda East and Toorak...

 
1932–1945
William Everard
William Everard (Australian politician)
William Hugh Everard , Australian politician, was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Evelyn from 1917 until his retirement in 1950...

 
United Australia/Min. Evelyn
Electoral district of Evelyn
The Electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859.The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew...

 
1917–1950
Frank Field
Frank Field (Australian politician)
Francis "Frank" Field was an Australian politician.Born in North Carlton to public servant William John Field and Kate Emily Honeybone, he attended St Mary's Primary School in Dandenong and St Kevin's College before studying at Melbourne University, from which he graduated with a Master of Arts...

 
Labor Dandenong
Electoral district of Dandenong
The Electoral district of Dandenong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1904 when the district of Dandenong and Berwick was abolished....

 
1937–1947
Bill Fulton  Country Gippsland North  1942–1945; 1947–1952
Bob Gray United Australia Nunawading
Electoral district of Nunawading
The electoral district of Nunawading was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Nunawading:...

 
1943–1947; 1952–1955
Edward Guye
Edward Guye
Edward Fritz Guye was an Australian politician who sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1958.Guye was born in Brentford, England, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London. His father died in 1901...

 
Country Polwarth
Electoral district of Polwarth
The Electoral district of Polwarth is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers much of the rural territory west of Geelong and includes the towns of Anglesea, Lorne, Lismore, Colac, Camperdown, Terang and Mortlake....

 
1940–1958
William Haworth
William Haworth
Sir William Crawford Haworth was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at state schools before attending the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Pharmacy. He became a pharmaceutical chemist, and served in the military 1940-44...

 
United Australia/Min. Albert Park
Electoral district of Albert Park
The Electoral district of Albert Park is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the inner city suburbs of South Melbourne, Albert Park, Port Melbourne and St Kilda...

 
1937–1945
Tom Hayes  Labor Melbourne
Electoral district of Melbourne
The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne...

 
1924–1955
Harry Hedditch  Country Port Fairy and Glenelg  1943–1945; 1947–1950
Wollaston Heily Country Waranga  1943–1945
Bill Hodson  Labor Castlemaine and Kyneton  1940–1945
Frederick Holden  Independent/Country Grant  1932–1950
Jack Holland  Labor Flemington
Electoral district of Flemington
Flemington was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 1904 with the abolition of Essendon and Flemington, when it was won by Edward Warde, formerly the Labor member for that seat. It was briefly abolished in 1945 and recreated in 1955 before being abolished...

 
1925–1955
Leslie Hollins
Leslie Hollins
Leslie Henry Hollins was an Australian politician.Born at Wonthaggi to farmer Henry Hollins and Lilian Mary Theresa Gardner, he attended local state schools before becoming an automotive engineer. He worked with the Melbourne General Omnibus Company in 1915 before serving in the Australian...

 
Social Credit
Douglas Credit Party
The Douglas Credit Party was an Australian political party based around the social credit theory of monetary reform, first set out by C. H. Douglas. It gained its strongest result in Queensland in 1935, when it gained 7.02% of first preferences. The party's strongest federal result was at the 1934...

/Min.
Hawthorn
Electoral district of Hawthorn
The Electoral district of Hawthorn is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1889 and has usually been a safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors....

 
1940–1945
Thomas Hollway
Thomas Hollway
Thomas Tuke "Tom" Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952....

 
United Australia Ballarat  1932–1955
Andrew Hughes
Andrew Hughes (Australian politician)
Andrew Arthur Hughes was an Australian politician.Born in South Yarra to brickmaker George Alfred Hughes and Eliza Smartt, Hughes attended Brighton State School and then the College of the Bible in Glen Iris, becoming a minister of religion...

 
Independent Socialist Caulfield
Electoral district of Caulfield
-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*...

 
1943–1945
Col. Wilfrid Kent Hughes
Wilfrid Kent Hughes
Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes KBE, MVO, MC was an Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister.Kent Hughes was born in Melbourne to an upper middle-class family...

 
United Australia Kew
Electoral district of Kew
The Electoral district of Kew is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies a few kilometres east of Melbourne and is centred around the suburb of Kew and also contains parts of Balwyn and Canterbury....

 
1927–1949
Raymond Hyatt
Raymond Hyatt
John Allison Raymond Hyatt was an Australian politician.Born in Blakeville to sawmiller Harry Hyatt and Elizabeth Dalton, he attended Blakeville State School and became a sawmiller and timber contractor...

 
Labor Warrenheip and Grenville  1943–1947
Hon Herbert Hyland
Herbert Hyland
Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland , storekeeper, investor, and politician, was born on 15 March 1884 at Prahran, Melbourne, second son of George Hyland, a Victorian-born painter, and his wife Mary, née Thornhill, from Ireland...

 
Country Gippsland South
Electoral district of Gippsland South
The Electoral district of Gippsland South is a Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Eastern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council ....

 
1929–1970
Jim Jewell  Labor Brunswick
Electoral district of Brunswick
The Electoral district of Brunswick is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and is based around the suburb of Brunswick....

 
1910–1949
Alfred Kirton  Country Mornington
Electoral district of Mornington
The Electoral district of Mornington is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Mornington:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories...

 
1932–1947
Brig. Sir George Knox  United Australia Upper Yarra  1927–1960
Hamilton Lamb Country Lowan
Electoral district of Lowan
The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Western Victoria Region of the Legislative Council ....

 
1935–1943
Hon John Lemmon  Labor Williamstown
Electoral district of Williamstown
Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville...

 
1904–1955
Hon Albert Lind  Country Gippsland East
Electoral district of Gippsland East
The Electoral district of Gippsland East is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers most of eastern Victoria and includes the towns of Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Orbost, Omeo, Maffra and Heyfield....

 
1920–1961
Alec McDonald  Country Stawell and Ararat
Electoral district of Stawell and Ararat
The Electoral district of Stawell and Ararat was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Stawell and Ararat:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories...

 
1935–1945
John McDonald
John McDonald (Victorian politician)
Sir John Gladstone Black McDonald was 37th Premier of Victoria from 27 June 1950 to 17 December 1952, except for a few days in October 1952 when Thomas Hollway led a brief Electoral Reform League government...

 
Country Goulburn Valley
Electoral district of Goulburn Valley
The Electoral district of Goulburn Valley was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Goulburn Valley:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1936–1955
Ian MacFarlan
Ian MacFarlan
Ian MacFarlan was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Liberal Party in the Australian state of Victoria during 1945...

 
United Australia/Min. Brighton
Electoral district of Brighton
The Electoral district of Brighton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Brighton:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories...

 
1928–1945
William McKenzie  Labor Wonthaggi
Electoral district of Wonthaggi
The Electoral district of Wonthaggi was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Wonthaggi:...

 
1927–1947
Edwin Mackrell  Country/Min. Upper Goulburn  1920–1945
Thomas Maltby  United Australia/Min. Barwon  1929–1961
Hon Norman Martin  Country Gunbower
Electoral district of Gunbower
The Electoral district of Gunbower was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Gunbower:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1934–1945
Samuel Merrifield  Labor Essendon
Electoral district of Essendon
The Electoral district of Essendon is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne and covers the suburbs of Essendon, Moonee Ponds and Ascot Vale...

 
1943–1955
Wilfred Mibus Country Lowan
Electoral district of Lowan
The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Western Victoria Region of the Legislative Council ....

 
1944–1964
Archie Michaelis  United Australia/Min. St Kilda
Electoral district of St Kilda
The Electoral district of St. Kilda was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of St Kilda:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1932–1952
William Moncur  Country Walhalla
Electoral district of Walhalla
The Electoral district of Walhalla was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of Walhalla:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly...

 
1927–1945
John Mullens
John Mullens
John Michael Mullens was an Australian politician. Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was educated there at St Patrick's College before becoming a teacher in state schools...

 
Labor Footscray
Electoral district of Footscray
The Electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne and covers the suburbs of Footscray, Maribyrnong and Seddon....

 
1937–1945
Charlie Mutton  Ind. Labor Coburg
Electoral district of Coburg
Electoral district of Coburg was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Coburg:...

 
1940–1967
Hon Francis Old  Country Swan Hill
Electoral district of Swan Hill
The Electoral district of Swan Hill is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Northern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council ....

 
1919–1945
Trevor Oldham  United Australia Boroondara  1933–1953
James Paton  Country Benambra
Electoral district of Benambra
The Electoral district of Benambra is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in north-east Victoria and includes the towns of Chiltern, Wodonga, Yackandandah, Beechworth, Tallangatta, and Corryong...

 
1932–1947
Squire Reid  Labor Oakleigh
Electoral district of Oakleigh
The Electoral district of Oakleigh is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the suburbs of Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Hughesdale, Oakleigh East, Oakleigh and parts of Chadstone, Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley, Glen Huntly and Ormond.The seat is Labor Party...

 
1927–1932; 1937–1947
Hon William Slater
Bill Slater (politician)
-Early life:Slater is believed to have been born in 1890. He was born to parents of Irish background. His father left his family when he was four years old. He and two siblings were brought up by his mother in Prahran. After briefly attending Armadale State School Slater left school early to sell...

 
Labor Dundas  1917–1947
Clive Stoneham
Clive Stoneham
Clive Philip Stoneham, OBE was an Australian politician. He was an ALP member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for 28 years from 1942 to 1970, representing the electorates of Maryborough and Daylesford and Midlands...

 
Labor Maryborough and Daylesford
Electoral district of Maryborough and Daylesford
The Electoral district of Maryborough and Daylesford was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Maryborough and Daylesford:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories...

 
1942–1970
Harold Thonemann  United Australia Toorak  1941–1945
Hon Tom Tunnecliffe  Labor Collingwood  1903–1904; 1907–1920;
1921–1947
Ivy Weber
Ivy Weber
Ivy Lavinia Weber was an Australian politician.Born at Captains Flat in New South Wales to schoolteacher John Filshie and his wife Elizabeth Seaman, she was educated at the local schools, eventually becoming a physical culturist and organiser...

Independent Nunawading
Electoral district of Nunawading
The electoral district of Nunawading was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Nunawading:...

 
1937–1943
Leslie Webster  Country Bulla and Dalhousie  1944–1947
Henry Zwar  Ind. UAP Heidelberg
Electoral district of Heidelberg
Electoral district of Heidelberg was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Heidelberg:...

 
1932–1945

In July 1943, the Independent member for Nunawading
Electoral district of Nunawading
The electoral district of Nunawading was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Nunawading:...

, Ivy Weber
Ivy Weber
Ivy Lavinia Weber was an Australian politician.Born at Captains Flat in New South Wales to schoolteacher John Filshie and his wife Elizabeth Seaman, she was educated at the local schools, eventually becoming a physical culturist and organiser...

, resigned to contest Division of Henty
Division of Henty
The Division of Henty was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1913 and abolished in 1990. It was named for the Henty family of Portland, the first European settlers in Victoria. It was located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, including at various times...

 in the 1943 federal election
Australian federal election, 1943
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...

. UAP candidate Bob Gray won the resulting by-election in September 1943.
On 31 August 1943, the Country member for Waranga, Ernest Coyle, died. Country candidate Wollaston Heily won the resulting by-election in October 1943.
On 7 December 1943, the Country member for Lowan
Electoral district of Lowan
The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Western Victoria Region of the Legislative Council ....

, Hamilton Lamb, died. Country candidate Wilfred Mibus won the resulting by-election in 1944.
On 12 April 1944, the Country member for Rodney
Electoral district of Rodney
The Electoral district of Rodney is a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.The Rodney District covers an area of 7,808 square kilometres, including the towns of Echuca, Rochester, Nathalia, Cohuna, Heathcote, Gunbower, Kyabram, Rushworth and Stanhope.The district...

, William Dunstone, died. Country candidate Richard Brose won the resulting by-election in June 1944.

Sources

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    Parliament of Victoria
    The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...

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