Election In Victoria
(Rec. 9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 22. With one seat still in doubt, the Liberal-Country Party gained six seats at the Legislative Council Elections in Victoria yesterday. The Government won four seats from the Australian Labour Party, one from the Democratic Labour Party and one from an independent Liberal. The Government needed to gain eight seats to secure an outright majority in the Legislative Council. The elections have left the Democratic Labour Party without representation in the Victoria Parliament.
The seat still in doubt is the provincial centre of Ballarat. This result will not be known until the preferences of the Democratic Labour Party and Independent Country Party are distributed. The Australian Labour Party candidate was leading at the end of the counting of outright votes, but the Liberal-Coun-try Party candidate can count on the majority of all but A.L.P. preferences, and these could get him the seat.
The Liberal-Country Party at present legislates with the assistance in the Upper House of the Country Party. The position this morning indicated the new Legislative Council would comprise:— Liberal-Country Party, 16 seats: Australian Labour Party, 9; Country Party, 8: doubtful 1.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 11
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