title: Electoral results for the Thomastown Province
text: # Electoral results for the Thomastown Province
  
  This is a list of electoral results for the Thomastown Province in Victorian state elections.
  
  ## Members for Thomastown Province
  
  | Member 1 | Party | Year |
  | - | - | - |
  | Dolph Eddy | Labor | 1976 | Member 2 | Member 2 | Party |
  | Dolph Eddy | Labor | 1979 | | Glyde Butler | Labor |
  | Jim Kennan | Labor | 1982 | | | |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Elections in the 1980s
  
  1982 Victorian state election: Thomastown Province :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Jim Kennan | 86,102 | 72.1 | +3.7 |
  | | Liberal | Rae Kennett | 33,361 | 27.9 | -3.7 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 119,463 | 94.8 | +0.3 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 6,488 | 5.2 | -0.3 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 125,951 | 94.7 | +0.9 |
  | | Labor hold | Labor hold | Swing | +3.7 | |
  
  ### Elections in the 1970s
  
  1979 Victorian state election: Thomastown Province :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Glyde Butler | 75,172 | 68.4 | +7.2 |
  | | Liberal | Kathleen Mulraney | 34,678 | 31.6 | -7.2 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 109,850 | 94.5 | -1.0 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 6,395 | 5.5 | +1.0 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 116,245 | 93.8 | +0.5 |
  | | Labor hold | Labor hold | Swing | +7.2 | |
  
  1976 Victorian state election: Thomastown Province :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Dolph Eddy | 62,466 | 61.2 |
  | | Liberal | John Fletcher | 39,546 | 38.8 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 102,012 | 95.5 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 4,851 | 4.5 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 106,863 | 93.3 |
  | | Labor hold | Labor hold | Swing | |
  