Election Name: | 1967 Victorian state election |
Country: | Victoria |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1964 Victorian state election |
Previous Year: | 1964 |
Next Election: | 1970 Victorian state election |
Next Year: | 1970 |
Seats For Election: | All 73 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 18 (of the 36) seats in the Victorian Legislative Council |
Leader1: | Sir Henry Bolte |
Leader Since1: | 3 June 1953 |
Party1: | Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) |
Leaders Seat1: | Hampden |
Popular Vote1: | 589,985 |
Percentage1: | 37.49% |
Swing1: | 2.14 |
Last Election1: | 38 seats |
Seats1: | 44 seats |
Seat Change1: | 6 |
Party2: | Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) |
Leaders Seat2: | Midlands |
Popular Vote2: | 596,520 |
Percentage2: | 37.90% |
Swing2: | 1.68 |
Last Election2: | 18 seats |
Seats2: | 16 seats |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Leader Since3: | 8 July 1964 |
Party3: | Country Party (Victoria) |
Leaders Seat3: | Murray Valley |
Popular Vote3: | 136,126 |
Percentage3: | 8.65% |
Swing3: | 0.11 |
Last Election3: | 10 seats |
Seats3: | 12 seats |
Seat Change3: | 2 |
1Blank: | TPP |
2Blank: | TPP swing |
1Data1: | 58.36% |
2Data1: | 0.67 |
1Data2: | 41.64% |
2Data2: | 0.67 |
Map Size: | 400px |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Henry Bolte |
Before Party: | Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) |
After Election: | Henry Bolte |
After Party: | Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) |
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.
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.
See also: Results of the 1967 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly). |}
See also: Results of the 1967 Victorian state election (Legislative Council).
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Seat | Pre-1967 | Swing | Post-1967 | ||||||||
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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 | ||||