Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1952–1955 explained

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1955, as elected at the 1952 state election.

Two party splits took place during the period:

• In August 1953, several Liberal members were expelled for supporting former Liberal Premier Thomas Hollway, who had formed an "Electoral Reform League" grouping in the Parliament advocating two Assembly seats for every Federal seat in Victoria and had, at the 1952 election, defeated the Liberal leader Les Norman in his own seat. With his electoral reform plans implemented by the Cain government, Hollway changed the name of the party to the Victorian Liberal Party in October 1954 (not to be confused with the extant Liberal and Country Party, the Victorian division of the federal Liberal Party).
• In 1955 during the Hobart conference of the governing Labor Party, the mostly Catholic supporters of the Industrial Groups and B. A. Santamaria either resigned from the party or were expelled and formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which ultimately became the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).

Both groups lost almost their entire parliamentary representation at the 1955 state election which followed, although the DLP continued to be a significant source of Liberal preferences until the early 1970s.

Name	Party	Electorate	Term in office
			1932–1955
			1953–1970
	Liberal		1947–1972
	Labor		1952–1955
			1944–1964
	Country		1947–1955
	Labor		1917–1957
	Labor		1952–1955
	Country		1950–1970
	Labor		1952–1958
	Country		1936–1961
	Labor/DLP		1952–1955
	Labor/DLP		1952–1955
			1945–1955
	Country		1938–1955
	Ind./Electoral Reform/VLP		1945–1955
	Labor		1950–1961; 1970–1979
	Labor/Independent		1950–1955
	Labor/DLP		1950–1955
	Labor		1945–1955, 1958–1964
	Labor		1952–1955
	Labor		1943–1947; 1952–1955
	Liberal		1940–1958
	Labor/DLP		1924–1955
	Labor		1925–1955
	Ind./Electoral Reform/VLP		1932–1955
	Labor		1945–1947, 1950–1955
	Country		1929–1970
	Liberal		1927–1960
	Liberal		1947–1956
	Labor		1904–1955
	Labor		1952–1955, 1969–1979
	Country		1920–1961
	Labor/DLP		1952–1955
	Labor		1952–1955
	Country		1936–1955
	Liberal		1929–1961
	Labor		1943–1955
	Liberal		1944–1964
	Country		1947–1976
	Labor/DLP		1952–1955
	Labor		1945–1947, 1950–1955
	Country		1945–1973
	Labor/DLP		1952–1955
	Ind. Labor		1940–1967
	Labor/DLP		1949–1955
	Liberal		1933–1953
	Labor		1951–1955
	Liberal		1952–1964
	Labor/DLP		1949–1955
	Labor		1945–1961
	Liberal		1949–1971
	Labor/DLP		1949–1958
	Labor		1952–1955
	Labor		1945–1958
	Labor		1945–1947, 1950–1955
	Country		1952–1968
	Labor		1952–1955
	Labor		1942–1970
	Labor		1950–1970
	Ind./Electoral Reform/VLP		1945–1955
	Labor		1947–1962
	Liberal		1950–1964
	Liberal		1945–1956
	Labor/DLP		1945–1947, 1950–1955
	Country		1945–1960

On 2 May 1953, the Opposition Leader and Liberal member for Malvern, Trevor Oldham, died. Liberal candidate John Bloomfield won the resulting by-election on 11 July 1953.

Sources

• Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.