List of Victorian state by-elections

This is an incomplete list of by-elections for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. A by-election may be held when a member's seat becomes vacant through resignation, death or some other reason.

By-election	Incumbent	Party		Reason for by-election	Date of by-election	Winner of By-election	Party
South-West Coast	Denis Napthine		Liberal	Resigned	31 October 2015	Roma Britnell		Liberal
Polwarth	Terry Mulder		Liberal	Resigned	31 October 2015	Richard Riordan		Liberal
Gippsland South	Peter Ryan		National	Resigned	14 March 2015	Danny O'Brien		National
Lyndhurst	Tim Holding		Labor	Resigned	27 April 2013	Martin Pakula		Labor
Melbourne	Bronwyn Pike		Labor	Resigned	21 July 2012	Jennifer Kanis		Labor
Niddrie	Rob Hulls		Labor	Resigned	24 March 2012	Ben Carroll		Labor
Broadmeadows	John Brumby		Labor	Resigned following election loss	19 February 2011	Frank McGuire		Labor
Altona	Lynne Kosky		Labor	Resigned	13 February 2010	Jill Hennessy		Labor
Kororoit	Andre Haermeyer		Labor	Resigned	28 June 2008	Marlene Kairouz		Labor
Williamstown	Steve Bracks		Labor	Resigned as Premier	15 September 2007	Wade Noonan		Labor
Albert Park	John Thwaites		Labor	Resigned as Deputy Premier	15 September 2007	Martin Foley		Labor
Benalla	Pat McNamara		National	Resigned following election loss	13 May 2000	Denise Allen		Labor
Burwood	Jeff Kennett		Liberal	Resigned following election loss	11 December 1999	Bob Stensholt		Labor
Northcote	Tony Sheehan		Labor	Resigned	15 August 1998	Mary Delahunty		Labor
Mitcham	Roger Pescott		Liberal	Resigned	13 December 1997	Tony Robinson		Labor
Gippsland West	Alan Brown		Liberal	Resigned	1 February 1997	Susan Davies		Independent
Williamstown	Joan Kirner		Labor	Resigned	13 August 1994	Steve Bracks		Labor
Coburg	Tom Roper		Labor	Resigned	14 May 1994	Carlo Carli		Labor
Broadmeadows	Jim Kennan		Labor	Resigned	18 September 1993	John Brumby		Labor
Shepparton	Peter Ross-Edwards		National	Resigned	19 October 1991	Don Kilgour		National
Thomastown	Beth Gleeson		Labor	Died	3 February 1990	Peter Batchelor		Labor
Greensborough	Pauline Toner		Labor	Resigned due to ill health (cancer)	15 April 1989	Sherryl Garbutt		Labor
Rodney	Eddie Hann		National	Resigned	4 March 1989	Noel Maughan		National
Ballarat North	Tom Evans		Liberal	Resigned	23 July 1988	Steve Elder		Liberal
Kew	Prue Sibree		Liberal	Resigned	19 March 1988	Jan Wade		Liberal
Swan Hill	Alan Wood		Liberal	Resigned	7 May 1983	Barry Steggall		National
Warrnambool	Ian Smith		Liberal	Resigned in unsuccessful attempt to win Liberal preselection for the 1983 Wannon federal by-election	7 May 1983	Adam Kempton		Liberal
Springvale	Kevin King		Labor	Died	19 March 1983	Eddie Micallef		Labor
Malvern	Lindsay Thompson		Liberal	Resigned following defeat as Premier	4 December 1982	Geoff Leigh		Liberal
Keilor	Jack Ginifer		Labor	Resigned due to ill health	17 July 1982	George Seitz		Labor
Kew	Rupert Hamer		Liberal	Resigned following resignation as Premier	15 August 1981	Prue Sibree		Liberal
Morwell	Derek Amos		Labor	Resigned due to ill health	27 June 1981	Valerie Callister		Labor
Richmond	Clyde Holding		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1977 federal election	17 December 1977	Theo Sidiropoulos		Labor
Melbourne	Barry Jones		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1977 federal election	17 December 1977	Keith Remington		Labor
Greensborough	Monte Vale		Liberal	Died	5 November 1977	Pauline Toner		Labor
Brunswick East	David Bornstein		Labor	Resigned	12 April 1975	Ron McAlister		Labor
Greensborough	Monte Vale		Liberal	Result overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns	13 October 1973	Monte Vale		Liberal
Hampden	Henry Bolte		Liberal	Resigned as Premier	7 October 1972	Tom Austin		Liberal
Gisborne	Julian Doyle		Liberal	Resigned	11 December 1971	Athol Guy		Liberal
Kew	Arthur Rylah		Liberal	Resigned due to ill health	17 April 1971	Rupert Hamer		Liberal
Dandenong	Len Reid		Liberal	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1969 federal election	6 December 1969	Alan Lind		Labor
Swan Hill	Harold Stirling		Country	Died	14 September 1968	Henry Broad		Country
Grant	Roy Crick		Labor	Died	8 October 1966	Jack Ginifer		Labor
Caulfield	Alexander Fraser		Liberal	Died	18 September 1965	Ian McLaren		Liberal
Mildura	Nathaniel Barclay		Country	Died	27 October 1962	Milton Whiting		Country
Broadmeadows	Harry Kane		Liberal and Country	Died	4 August 1962	John Wilton		Labor
Richmond	Bill Towers		Labor	Died	12 May 1962	Clyde Holding		Labor
Ballarat North	Russell White		Country	Resigned to take up position on the Trotting Control Board	12 November 1960	Tom Evans		Liberal and Country
Scoresby	George Knox		Liberal and Country	Died	17 September 1960	Bill Borthwick		Liberal and Country
Footscray	Ernie Shepherd		Labor	Died	8 October 1958	William Divers		Labor
Northcote	John Cain		Labor	Died	21 September 1957	Frank Wilkes		Labor
Camberwell	Robert Whately		Liberal and Country	Died in a car accident	21 April 1956	Vernon Wilcox		Liberal and Country
Mornington	William Leggatt		Liberal and Country	Resigned to take up appointment as Agent-General for Victoria in London	3 March 1956	Roberts Dunstan		Liberal and Country
Flemington	Jack Holland		Labor	Died	18 February 1956	Kevin Holland		Labor
Malvern	Trevor Oldham		Liberal and Country	Died	11 July 1953	John Bloomfield		Liberal and Country
Toorak	Edward Reynolds		Liberal and Country	Resigned	13 September 1952	Horace Petty		Liberal and Country
Port Melbourne	Tom Corrigan		Labor	Died	13 September 1952	Stan Corrigan		Labor
Prahran	Frank Crean		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1951 federal election	16 June 1951	Robert Pettiona		Labor
Ivanhoe	Rupert Curnow		Liberal and Country	Died	24 February 1951	Frank Block		Liberal and Country
Clifton Hill	Jack Cremean		Liberal and Country	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1949 federal election	17 December 1949	Joseph O'Carroll		Labor
Kew	Wilfrid Kent Hughes		Liberal and Country	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1949 federal election	17 December 1949	Arthur Rylah		Liberal and Country
Richmond	Stan Keon		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1949 federal election	17 December 1949	Frank Scully		Labor
Brunswick	James Jewell		Labor	Died	16 July 1949	Peter Randles		Labor
Prahran	Bill Quirk		Labor	Died	22 January 1949	Frank Crean		Labor
Geelong	Fanny Brownbill		Labor	Died	13 November 1948	Edward Montgomery		Liberal
Toorak	Robert Bell Hamilton		Liberal	Died	19 June 1948	Edward Reynolds		Liberal
Collingwood	Tom Tunnecliffe		Labor	Resigned	20 September 1947	Bill Towers		Labor
Benambra	Roy Paton		Country	Died	7 June 1947	Thomas Mitchell		Country
Prahran	John Ellis		United Australia	Died	18 August 1945	Bill Quirk		Labor
Clifton Hill	Herbert Cremean		Labor	Died	7 July 1945	Jack Cremean		Labor
Bendigo	Arthur Cook		Labor	Died	26 May 1945	Bill Galvin		Labor
Lowan	Hamilton Lamb		Country	Died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the Burma Railway	4 November 1944	Wilfred Mibus		Country
Bulla and Dalhousie	Reginald James		Country	Died	27 September 1944	Leslie Webster		Country
Rodney	William Dunstone		Country	Died	12 April 1944	Richard Brose		Country
Waranga	Ernest Coyle		Country	Died	9 October 1943	Wollaston Heily		Country
Nunawading	Ivy Weber		Independent	Resigned in unsuccessful attempt to enter federal politics at the 1943 federal election	4 September 1943	Bob Gray		Labor
Maryborough and Daylesford	George Frost		Labor	Died	28 November 1942	Clive Stoneham		Labor
Gippsland North	Alexander Borthwick		Country	Died	20 June 1942	Bill Fulton		Country
Port Melbourne	James Murphy		Labor	Died	18 April 1942	Tom Corrigan		Labor
Toorak	Stanley Argyle		United Australia	Died	11 January 1941	Henry Thonemann		United Australia
Polwarth	Allan McDonald		United Australia	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1940 federal election	2 November 1940	Edward Guye		United Australia
Coburg	Frank Keane		Labor	Died	13 July 1940	Charlie Mutton		Independent Labor
Hawthorn	John Austin Gray		United Australia	Died	10 June 1939	Les Tyack		United Australia
Gippsland North	James Weir McLachlan		Independent	Died	5 November 1938	Alexander Borthwick		Country
Geelong	William Brownbill		Labor	Died	4 June 1938	Fanny Brownbill		Labor
Benalla	Edward Cleary		Country	Died	3 October 1936	Frederick Cook		Independent
Goulburn Valley	Murray Bourchier		Country	Resigned to take up appointment as Agent-General for Victoria in London	19 September 1936	John MacDonald		Country
Rodney	John Allan		Country	Died	18 April 1936	William Dunstone		Country
Allandale	Thomas Parkin		United Australia	Died	21 March 1936	Patrick Denigan		Labor
Nunawading	Robert Menzies		United Australia	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1934 federal election	1 September 1934	William Boyland		United Australia
Gunbower	Henry Angus		United Australia	Died	12 May 1934	Norman Martin		Independent Country
Allandale	Alexander Peacock		United Australia	Died	11 November 1933	Millie Peacock		United Australia
Warrnambool	James Fairbairn		United Australia	Resigned to contest the 1933 Flinders federal by-election	11 November 1933	Keith McGarvie		United Australia
Polwarth	James McDonald		United Australia	Died	16 September 1933	Allan McDonald		United Australia
Boroondara	Richard Linton		United Australia	Resigned to take up appointment as Agent-General for Victoria in London	29 April 1933	Trevor Oldham		United Australia
Benambra	Henry Beardmore		United Australia	Died	15 October 1932	Roy Paton		Country
Carlton	Robert Solly		Labor	Died	9 July 1932	Bill Barry		Labor
Caulfield	Frederick Forrest		Progressive Liberal	Died	22 November 1930	Harold Daniel Luxton		Nationalist
Hawthorn	William Murray McPherson		Nationalist	Resigned	27 September 1930	John Austin Gray		Nationalist
Gippsland West	Arthur Walter		Country	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for the federal seat of Indi at the 1929 election	19 October 1929	Matthew Bennett		Country
Barwon	Edward Morley		Nationalist	Died	6 July 1929	Thomas Maltby		Nationalist
Castlemaine and Kyneton	Harry Lawson		Nationalist	Resigned to contest a Senate seat at the 1929 federal election	2 February 1929	Walter Langslow		Nationalist
Brighton	Oswald Snowball		Nationalist	Died	28 April 1928	Ian MacFarlan		Nationalist
Gippsland South	Henry Bodman		Independent	Died	3 December 1927	Walter West		Nationalist
Flemington	Edward Warde		Labor	Died	9 December 1925	Jack Holland		Labor
Fitzroy	John Billson		Labor	Died	4 February 1925	Maurice Blackburn		Labor
Glenelg	William Thomas		Labor	Died	14 August 1924	Ernie Bond		Labor
Gippsland West	Sir John Mackey		Nationalist	Died	23 May 1924	Arthur Walter		VFU
Dalhousie	Allan Cameron		Nationalist	Died	31 January 1924	Reg Pollard		Labor
Daylesford	Donald McLeod		Nationalist	Died	8 July 1923	Roderick McLeod		Labor
Gippsland South	Thomas Livingston		Nationalist	Died	18 August 1922	Walter West		Nationalist
Upper Goulburn	Edwin Mackrell		VFU	Disqualified (failed to nominate on time)	27 January 1921	Edwin Mackrell		VFU
Swan Hill	Percy Stewart		VFU	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1919 federal election	19 November 1919	Francis Old		VFU
Albert Park	Joseph Hannan		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1919 federal election	19 November 1919	Arthur Wallace		Labor
Albert Park	George Elmslie		Labor	Died	13 June 1918	Joseph Hannan		Labor
Polwarth	John Johnstone		Nationalist	Resigned	13 July 1917	James McDonald		Nationalist
Benambra	John Leckie		Nationalist	Resigned	20 April 1917	Henry Beardmore		Nationalist
Geelong	William Plain		Nationalist	Resigned to contest a Senate seat at the 1917 federal election	20 April 1917	Robert Purnell		Nationalist
Warrnambool	John Murray		Commonwealth Liberal	Died	1 June 1916	James Deany		Commonwealth Liberal
Port Melbourne	George Sangster		Labor	Died	28 April 1915	Owen Sinclair		Labor
Bendigo East	Alfred Hampson		Labor	Resigned to enter federal politics at the Bendigo by-election, 1915	4 February 1915	Luke Clough		Labor
Essendon	William Watt		Nationalist	Resigned to enter federal politics at the 1914 federal election	23 July 1914	Maurice Blackburn		Labor
Gippsland South	Thomas Livingston		Nationalist	Forfeited seat after joining Peacock Ministry	30 June 1914	Thomas Livingston		Nationalist
Borung	William Hutchinson		Commonwealth Liberal	Forfeited seat after joining Watt Ministry	15 January 1914	William Hutchinson		Commonwealth Liberal
Essendon	William Watt		Commonwealth Liberal	Forfeited seat after forming Watt Ministry	15 January 1914	William Watt		Commonwealth Liberal
Prahran	Donald Mackinnon		Commonwealth Liberal	Forfeited seat after joining Watt Ministry	15 January 1914	Donald Mackinnon		Commonwealth Liberal
Benambra	Albert Craven		Commonwealth Liberal	Died	29 December 1913	John Leckie		Commonwealth Liberal
Hawthorn	George Swinburne		Commonwealth Liberal	Resigned to join the Inter-State Commission	5 September 1913	William McPherson		Commonwealth Liberal
Grenville	Charles McGrath		Labor	Resigned to contest the federal seat of Ballaraat at the 1913 election	15 May 1913	John Chatham		Labor
Kara Kara	Peter McBride			Resigned to take up appointment as Agent-General for Victoria in London	14 March 1913	Jack Pennington		Commonwealth Liberal
Warrenheip	George Holden			Resigned to become chairman of the Melbourne Harbour Trust	28 February 1913	Ned Hogan		Labor
Abbotsford	William Beazley		Labor	Died	26 July 1912	Gordon Webber		Labor
Walhalla	Albert Harris			Died	29 July 1910	Samuel Barnes
Brunswick	Frank Anstey		Labor	Resigned to contest the federal seat of Bourke at the 1910 election	29 July 1910	James Jewell		Labor
Brighton	Sir Thomas Bent			Died	8 October 1909	Oswald Snowball

Notes

¹ In the July 1923 Daylesford by-election following the death of Nationalist MP Donald McLeod, Labor candidate James McDonald was initially declared elected, but a subsequent recount in October found that Roderick McLeod, son of the deceased outgoing member, had in fact won the by-election.