Electoral results for the district of Prahran

This is a list of electoral results for the district of Prahran in Victorian state elections.

	Party	Term
Edward Dixon	Independent	1889–1894
Frederick Gray	Labor	1894–1900
Donald Mackinnon	Liberal	1900–1920
Alexander Parker	Labor	1920–1921
Richard Fetherston	Nationalist	1921–1924
Arthur Jackson	Labor	1924–1932
John Ellis	United Australia	1932–1945
John Ellis	Liberal	1945–1945
Bill Quirk	Labor	1945–1948
Frank Crean	Labor	1949–1951
Robert Pettiona	Labor	1951–1955
Sam Loxton	Liberal	1955–1979
Bob Miller	Labor	1979–1985
Don Hayward	Liberal	1985–1996
Leonie Burke	Liberal	1996–2002
Tony Lupton	Labor	2002–2010
Clem Newton-Brown	Liberal	2010–2014
Sam Hibbins	Greens	2014–2024
Sam Hibbins	Independent	2024–2024
Rachel Westaway	Liberal	2025–present

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rachel Westaway	11,443	36.19	+5.1
	Greens	Angelica Di Camillo	11,442	36.19	−0.2
	Independent	Tony Lupton	4,021	12.72	+12.7
	Independent	Nathan Chisholm	1,672	5.29	+5.3
	Animal Justice	Faith Fuhrer	879	2.78	−0.4
	Independent	Janine Hendry	505	1.60	+1.6
	Independent	Buzz Billman	465	1.47	+1.5
	Sustainable Australia	Dennis Bilic	430	1.36	+1.4
	Family First	Geneviève Gilbert	340	1.08	−0.5
	Libertarian	Mark Dessau	292	0.92	+0.9
	Independent	Alan Menadue	126	0.40	−0.7
Total formal votes			31,615	96.1	−0.8
Informal votes			1,271	3.86	+0.8
Turnout			32,886	68.28	−14.4
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Rachel Westaway	16,234	51.35	+13.4
	Greens	Angelica Di Camillo	15,381	48.65	−13.4
	Liberal gain from Greens		Swing	+13.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	14,286	36.4	+8.1
	Liberal	Matthew Lucas	12,198	31.1	−1.6
	Labor	Wesa Chau	10,421	26.6	−3.9
	Animal Justice	Alice Le Huray	1,263	3.2	+0.9
	Family First	Ronald Emilsen	626	1.6	+1.6
	Independent	Alan Menadue	449	1.1	+0.8
Total formal votes			39,243	97.0	+2.1
Informal votes			1,223	3.0	−2.1
Turnout			40,466	82.7	−1.6
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Wesa Chau	23,966	61.1	+2.4
	Liberal	Matthew Lucas	15,277	38.9	–2.4
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	24,334	62.0	+3.0
	Liberal	Matthew Lucas	14,909	38.0	−3.0
	Greens hold		Swing	+3.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Katie Allen	13,956	34.53	−10.29
	Labor	Neil Pharaoh	11,702	28.95	+3.04
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	11,347	28.07	+3.32
	Democratic Labour	Leon Kofmansky	933	2.31	+2.31
	Animal Justice	Jennifer Long	900	2.23	−0.04
	Reason	Tom Tomlin	830	2.05	+2.05
	Sustainable Australia	Dennis Bilic	468	1.16	+1.16
	Aussie Battler	Wendy Patterson	156	0.39	+0.39
	Independent	Alan Menadue	130	0.32	+0.10
Total formal votes			40,422	94.77	−0.12
Informal votes			2,229	5.23	+0.12
Turnout			42,651	84.67	−3.80
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Neil Pharaoh	23,263	57.55	+7.58
	Liberal	Katie Allen	17,159	42.45	−7.58
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	23,224	57.45	+7.08
	Liberal	Katie Allen	17,198	42.55	−7.08
	Greens hold		Swing	+7.08

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	16,582	44.8	−2.8
	Labor	Neil Pharaoh	9,586	25.9	−1.5
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	9,160	24.8	+5.0
	Animal Justice	Eleonora Gullone	837	2.3	+2.3
	Family First	Alan Walker	282	0.8	+0.2
	Independent	Jason Simon Goldsmith	247	0.7	+0.7
	Independent	Steve Stefanopoulos	227	0.6	+0.6
	Independent	Alan Maxwell Menadue	82	0.2	+0.2
Total formal votes			37,003	94.9	−1.9
Informal votes			1,991	5.1	+1.9
Turnout			38,994	88.5	+4.4
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	18,580	50.03	−4.6
	Labor	Neil Pharaoh	18,555	49.97	+4.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Sam Hibbins	18,640	50.4	+50.4
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	18,363	49.6	−5.1
	Greens gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	16,197	47.95	+6.08
	Labor	Tony Lupton	9,384	27.78	−8.94
	Greens	Meni Christofakis	6,685	19.79	−0.34
	Sex Party	Christian Vega	1,073	3.18	+3.18
	Independent	Katharine Anderson	239	0.71	+0.71
	Family First	Simon Ronchi	198	0.59	−0.69
Total formal votes			33,776	96.77	+0.46
Informal votes			1,128	3.23	−0.46
Turnout			34,904	88.91	+3.94
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	18,460	54.80	+8.33
	Labor	Tony Lupton	15,226	45.20	−8.33
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+8.33

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	13,136	41.9	+0.9
	Labor	Tony Lupton	11,518	36.7	−1.3
	Greens	Justin Walker	6,315	20.1	+2.1
	Family First	Gary Pinto	402	1.3	+1.3
Total formal votes			31,371	96.3	−0.8
Informal votes			1,201	3.7	+0.8
Turnout			32,572	85.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tony Lupton	16,800	53.6	−0.8
	Liberal	Clem Newton-Brown	14,571	46.4	+0.8
	Labor hold		Swing	−0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	12,713	41.0	−10.7
	Labor	Tony Lupton	11,772	38.0	−1.4
	Greens	Dinesh Mathew	5,591	18.0	+11.4
	Democrats	John Gourlay	504	1.6	+1.6
	Independent	Abraham Lincoln	419	1.4	+1.4
Total formal votes			30,999	97.1	−0.2
Informal votes			921	2.9	+0.2
Turnout			31,920	86.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tony Lupton	16,869	54.4	+9.1
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	14,130	45.6	−9.1
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	16,789	51.0	−1.8
	Labor	Joseph O'Reilly	13,056	39.7	−3.9
	Greens	Wendy Salter	2,282	6.9	+6.9
	Democratic Labor	Frances Murphy	609	1.9	+1.9
	Natural Law	Margaret Dawson	164	0.5	−3.1
Total formal votes			32,900	97.3	−0.4
Informal votes			904	2.7	+0.4
Turnout			33,804	86.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	17,785	54.0	−0.6
	Labor	Joseph O'Reilly	15,126	46.0	+0.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	17,135	52.8	−1.9
	Labor	Nicky Kepert	14,133	43.6	+8.1
	Natural Law	Jan Allison	1,157	3.6	+0.0
Total formal votes			32,425	97.7	+1.8
Informal votes			770	2.3	−1.8
Turnout			33,195	87.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Leonie Burke	17,673	54.6	−3.2
	Labor	Nicky Kepert	14,697	45.4	+3.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Don Hayward	16,502	54.8	+6.4
	Labor	Cynthia Levey	10,682	35.4	−11.3
	Greens	Francesca Davidson	1,863	6.2	+6.2
	Natural Law	Greg Broszczyk	1,086	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			30,133	95.9	+0.6
Informal votes			1,291	4.1	−0.6
Turnout			31,424	89.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Don Hayward	17,387	57.8	+7.5
	Labor	Cynthia Levey	12,678	42.2	−7.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Don Hayward	13,531	56.05	+2.62
	Labor	Roman Jade	10,020	41.50	+0.28
	Call to Australia	Neil Baluch	592	2.45	+2.45
Total formal votes			24,143	95.91	−1.28
Informal votes			1,029	4.09	+1.28
Turnout			25,172	86.46	−1.80
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Don Hayward	13,864	57.42	+0.48
	Labor	Roman Jade	10,279	42.58	−0.48
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.48

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Don Hayward	14,582	53.4	+3.9
	Labor	Hendrik van Leeuwen	11,250	41.2	−3.4
	Independent	Norman Long	746	2.7	+2.7
	Public Transport	Alan Parker	714	2.6	+2.6
Total formal votes			27,292	97.2
Informal votes			788	2.8
Turnout			28,080	88.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Don Hayward	15,502	56.8	+5.1
	Labor	Hendrik van Leeuwen	11,790	43.2	−5.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+5.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bob Miller	11,241	50.6	+4.5
	Liberal	Peter Thomson	9,746	43.9	+0.3
	Democrats	Pamela Hoobin	1,038	4.7	−4.3
	Socialist	Trevor McCandless	195	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			22,220	97.6	+0.9
Informal votes			546	2.4	−0.9
Turnout			22,766	89.1	+0.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bob Miller	11,935	53.7	+2.8
	Liberal	Peter Thomson	10,285	46.3	−2.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bob Miller	10,517	46.1	+5.6
	Liberal	Tony De Domenico	9,960	43.6	−7.9
	Democrats	Peter Bowden	2,059	9.0	+9.0
	Independent	Trevor McCandless	291	1.3	+1.3
Total formal votes			22,827	96.7	−0.3
Informal votes			780	3.3	+0.3
Turnout			23,607	88.2	+3.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bob Miller	11,630	50.9	+6.6
	Liberal	Tony De Domenico	11,197	49.1	−6.6
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.6

1970 Victorian state election: Prahran
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	9,188	42.1	−2.3
	Labor	Ivan Trayling	8,681	39.8	+4.2
	Democratic Labor	John Johnston	1,877	8.6	0.0
	Independent	James Banks	1,460	6.7	+6.7
	Defence of Government Schools	David Tuck	601	2.8	+2.8
Total formal votes			21,807	95.2	+0.2
Informal votes			1,092	4.8	−0.2
Turnout			22,899	88.7	−0.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	11,983	55.0	+1.2
	Labor	Ivan Trayling	9,824	45.0	−1.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.2

1961 Victorian state election: Prahran
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Gahan	7,430	45.3	+2.0
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	6,839	41.7	−2.0
	Democratic Labor	Gordon Haberman	2,137	13.0	0.0
Total formal votes			16,406	97.1	−0.8
Informal votes			486	2.9	+0.8
Turnout			16,892	92.3	+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	8,648	52.7	−2.2
	Labor	George Gahan	7,758	47.3	+2.2
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	−2.2

1951 Prahran state by-election^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	10,922	52.7	−2.9
	Liberal and Country	Desmond McGinnes	9,803	47.3	+2.9
Total formal votes			20,725	99.0	0.0
Informal votes			207	1.0	0.0
Turnout			20,932	84.7	−9.5
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.9

1950 Victorian state election: Prahran
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Frank Crean	12,879	55.6	+5.4
	Liberal and Country	Charles Barrington	10,267	44.4	−5.4
Total formal votes			23,146	99.0	+0.1
Informal votes			223	1.0	−0.1
Turnout			23,369	94.2	+3.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	12,414	51.5	+0.3
	Labor	Morris Milder	9,760	40.5	−2.2
	Independent	Michael Salvaris	1,086	4.5	+4.5
	Workers	Paul Krutulis	858	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			24,118	97.0
Informal votes			753	3.0
Turnout			24,871	84.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	13,419	55.7	−0.8
	Labor	Morris Milder	10,699	44.3	+0.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	11,306	48.1	+6.0
	Labor	Murray Pearce	10,305	43.9	+4.1
	Democratic Labor	John Johnston	1,891	8.1	−0.5
Total formal votes			23,502	96.7	+1.5
Informal votes			795	3.3	−1.5
Turnout			24,297	87.7	−1.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	12,955	55.1	+0.1
	Labor	Murray Pearce	10,547	44.9	−0.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	9,845	44.4	+0.1
	Labor	John Dyer	7,902	35.6	−9.2
	Independent	George Gahan	2,378	10.7	+10.7
	Democratic Labor	Gavan Grimes	1,906	8.6	−2.3
	Independent	John Ketelhorn	148	0.7	+0.7
Total formal votes			22,179	95.0
Informal votes			1,159	5.0
Turnout			23,338	89.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sam Loxton	11,934	53.8	+0.2
	Labor	John Dyer	10,245	46.2	−0.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	7,464	45.8	+4.1
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	6,709	41.1	−4.2
	Democratic Labor	Gordon Haberman	1,794	10.5	−2.5
	Independent	John Amurry	430	2.6	+2.6
Total formal votes			16,307	96.6	−0.5
Informal votes			567	3.4	+0.5
Turnout			16,874	92.3	0.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	14,289	64.8	+2.5
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	7,750	35.2	−2.5
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	+2.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	7,798	43.7
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	7,734	43.3
	Democratic Labor	Gordon Haberman	2,325	13.0
Total formal votes			17,857	97.9
Informal votes			375	2.1
Turnout			18,232	92.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	9,794	54.9
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	8,063	45.1
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	7,738	47.3
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	5,847	35.7
	Labor (A-C)	James Johnson	2,238	13.7
	Independent	Leonard Bennett	553	3.4
Total formal votes			16,376	96.6
Informal votes			576	3.4
Turnout			16,952	92.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Sam Loxton	8,195	50.04
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	8,181	49.96
	Liberal and Country gain from Labor		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert Pettiona	13,009	61.6	+6.0
	Liberal and Country	Charles Gawith	8,114	38.4	−6.0
Total formal votes			21,123	98.2	−0.8
Informal votes			380	1.8	+0.8
Turnout			21,503	92.2	−2.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+6.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Frank Crean	11,379	51.2	+1.0
	Liberal	Martin Smith	10,829	48.8	−1.0
Total formal votes			22,208	99.1	+0.2
Informal votes			195	0.9	−0.2
Turnout			22,403	86.9	−3.9
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Quirk	12,329	50.2	−3.2
	Liberal	Martin Smith	12,238	49.8	+9.7
Total formal votes			24,567	98.9	+1.1
Informal votes			280	1.1	−1.1
Turnout			24,847	90.8	+5.2
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Bill Quirk	11,949	53.4
	Liberal	Peter Isaacson	8,977	40.1
	Independent Labor	Arthur Jackson	1,459	6.5
Total formal votes			22,385	97.8
Informal votes			495	2.2
Turnout			22,880	85.6
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Quirk	11,143	47.3	+9.2
	Liberal	Frank Collins	9,078	38.5	−10.6^[a]
	Communist	Leslie Sampson	1,896	8.0	−4.6
	Independent	William Harris	1,457	6.2	+6.2
Total formal votes			23,574	97.4	+0.6
Informal votes			639	2.6	−0.6
Turnout			24,213	74.6	−8.7
	Labor	Bill Quirk	11,803	50.1
	Liberal	Frank Collins	9,731	41.3
	Communist	Leslie Sampson	2,040	8.7
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	John Ellis	13,031	49.1	−6.7
	Labor	John Ryder	10,123	38.1	−6.1
	Communist	Malcolm Good	3,406	12.8	+12.8
Total formal votes			26,560	96.8	−1.4
Informal votes			880	3.2	+1.4
Turnout			37,440	83.3	−7.3
Two-party-preferred result
	United Australia	John Ellis	13,994	52.7	−3.1
	Labor	John Ryder	12,566	47.4	+3.1
	United Australia hold		Swing	−3.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	John Ellis	12,878	55.8	+0.3
	Labor	Roy Cameron	10,193	44.2	−0.3
Total formal votes			23,071	98.2	−0.7
Informal votes			416	1.8	+0.7
Turnout			23,487	90.6	−3.6
	United Australia hold		Swing	+0.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	John Ellis	13,243	55.5	−1.9
	Labor	Archibald Fraser	10,599	44.5	+1.9
Total formal votes			23,842	98.9	+0.3
Informal votes			259	1.1	−0.3
Turnout			24,101	94.2	+0.6
	United Australia hold		Swing	−1.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	John Ellis	13,478	57.4	−2.1
	Labor	Archibald Fraser	10,016	42.6	+20.4
Total formal votes			23,494	98.6	+0.9
Informal votes			331	1.4	−0.9
Turnout			23,825	93.6	+2.3
	United Australia hold		Swing	−6.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	John Ellis	12,768	59.5	+16.2
	Labor	Victor Stout	4,771	22.2	−34.5
	Premiers' Plan Labor	Arthur Jackson	3,913	18.2	+18.2
Total formal votes			21,452	97.7	−1.3
Informal votes			502	2.3	+1.3
Turnout			21,954	91.3	−4.8
Two-party-preferred result
	United Australia	John Ellis		64.1
	Labor	Victor Stout		35.9
	United Australia gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Jackson	12,516	56.7	+0.2
	Nationalist	Alfred Cole	9,575	43.3	−0.2
Total formal votes			22,100	98.9	+0.2
Informal votes			254	1.1	−0.2
Turnout			22,345	92.0	+0.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Jackson	12,772	56.5	+4.9
	Nationalist	Thomas White	9,847	43.5	+11.1
Total formal votes			22,619	98.7
Informal votes			289	1.3
Turnout			22,908	91.3
	Labor hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Jackson	6,316	51.6	+2.6
	Nationalist	Richard Fetherston	3,957	32.4	−18.2
	Independent Liberal	Alfred Woodfull	1,850	15.1	+15.1
	Independent Labor	Harold Croughnan	106	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			12,229	97.6	−1.7
Informal votes			307	2.4	+1.7
Turnout			12,536	64.5	+9.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Arthur Jackson		53.5	+4.1
	Nationalist	Richard Fetherston		46.5	−4.1
	Labor gain from Nationalist		Swing	+4.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Richard Fetherston	5,815	50.6	+2.1
	Labor	Alexander Parker	5,668	49.4	−2.1
Total formal votes			11,483	99.3	+0.2
Informal votes			86	0.7	−0.2
Turnout			11,569	54.8	−6.0
	Nationalist gain from Labor		Swing	+2.1