title: Electoral results for the district of Mernda
text: # Electoral results for the district of Mernda
  
  This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Mernda in Victorian state elections.
  
  ## Members for Mernda
  
  | Member | Party | Term |
  | - | - | - |
  | Leslie Webster | Country | 1945–1947 |
  | Arthur Ireland | Liberal | 1947–1952 |
  | Edmund Morrissey | Labor | 1952–1955 |
  | Edmund Morrissey | Labor (Anti-Communist) | 1955 |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Elections in the 1950s
  
  1952 Victorian state election: Mernda :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Edmund Morrissey | 8,694 | 50.9 | -9.8 |
  | | Liberal | Arthur Ireland | 8,389 | 49.1 | +9.8 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 17,083 | 98.5 | +3.2 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 259 | 1.5 | -3.2 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 17,342 | 92.5 | -0.2 |
  | | Labor gain from Liberal and Country | Labor gain from Liberal and Country | Swing | +9.8 | |
  
  1950 Victorian state election: Mernda :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal and Country | Arthur Ireland | 8,792 | 60.7 | +21.5 |
  | | Labor | Russell Smith | 5,695 | 39.3 | +39.3 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 14,487 | 95.3 | -3.3 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 717 | 4.7 | +3.3 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 15,204 | 92.7 | +0.2 |
  | | Liberal and Country hold | Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A | |
  
  ### Elections in the 1940s
  
  1947 Victorian state election: Mernda :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Arthur Ireland | 5,042 | 39.2 | +6.4 |
  | | Independent Labor | Jack Gill | 4,280 | 31.6 | +31.6 |
  | | Country | Leslie Webster | 4,223 | 31.2 | -2.9 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 13,545 | 98.6 | +0.4 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 186 | 1.4 | -0.4 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 13,731 | 92.5 | +5.2 |
  | Two-candidate-preferred result ||||||
  | | Liberal | Arthur Ireland | 8,857 | 65.4 | +65.4 |
  | | Independent Labor | Jack Gill | 4,688 | 34.6 | +34.6 |
  | | Liberal gain from Country | Liberal gain from Country | Swing | N/A | |
  
  1945 Victorian state election: Mernda :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Country | Leslie Webster | 3,991 | 34.0 |
  | | Labor | Arthur Turtle | 3,880 | 33.1 |
  | | Liberal | Arthur Ireland | 3,847 | 32.8 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 11,718 | 98.2 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 220 | 1.8 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,938 | 87.2 |
  | Two-party-preferred result ||||||
  | | Country | Leslie Webster | 6,898 | 58.9 |
  | | Labor | Arthur Turtle | 4,820 | 41.1 |
  | | Country hold | Country hold | Swing | |
  