Country: | Victoria |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1955 Victorian Legislative Council election |
Previous Year: | 1955 |
Next Election: | Results of the 1961 Victorian state election (Legislative Council) |
Next Year: | 1961 |
Party1: | Liberal Party of Australia |
Seats Before1: | 10 |
Seats1: | 8 |
Seats After1: | 17 |
Seat Change1: | 7 |
Popular Vote1: | 451,462 |
Percentage1: | 35.8% |
Swing1: | 5.3pp |
Party2: | Australian Labor Party |
Seats Before2: | 10 |
Seats2: | 5 |
Seats After2: | 9 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 494,892 |
Percentage2: | 35.8% |
Swing2: | 0.3pp |
Party4: | Country |
Seats Before4: | 8 |
Seats4: | 4 |
Seats After4: | 8 |
Popular Vote4: | 69,028 |
Percentage4: | 5.5% |
Swing4: | 0.6pp |
Party5: | Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1980) |
Seats Before5: | 1 |
Seats5: | 0 |
Seats After5: | 0 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 187,618 |
Percentage5: | 14.9% |
Swing5: | 1.6pp |
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 21 June 1958 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLCs were elected in single-member provinces using preferential voting. This was the last time Legislative Council elections were held separately to those of the Legislative Assembly.
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Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.
Province | Held by | Labor candidates | LCP candidates | Country candidates | DLP candidates | Other candidates | |||||
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Jack Jones | Maurice Calnin | David Milburn (Ind) | |||||||||
Arthur Smith | George Morison | Arthur White | |||||||||
Nicholas Dawe | Herbert Morris | ||||||||||
John Hoare | Sir Clifden Eager (Ind) | ||||||||||
Frederick Gregory | Bill Fulton | John Hansen | |||||||||
Genevieve Mann | Sir Arthur Warner | Grace Stratton (Ind) | |||||||||
Pat Sheehy | |||||||||||
Gladys Brown | Jack Little | ||||||||||
Bert Bailey | |||||||||||
Gwendolyn Noad | Thomas Brennan | ||||||||||
Dudley Walters | |||||||||||
Ivan Swinburne | |||||||||||
Percy Byrnes | Albert Allnutt (Ind) | ||||||||||
Roy Rawson | Leo Mahony | ||||||||||
George Tilley | |||||||||||
Don Ferguson | Norman Smith | ||||||||||
David Arnott | James Eveston |