Country Progressive Party (Victoria)

Country Progressive Party
Leader	Albert Dunstan
Founded	April 1926
Dissolved	October 1930
Split from	Victorian Country Party
Merged into	United Country Party
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The Country Progressive Party was a political party in the Australian state of Victoria from 1926 to 1930. It was a splinter group from the Victorian Country Party. It was formed by federal MP Percy Stewart and future Victorian Premier Albert Dunstan in protest over protection of sitting members and state governments. Stewart was the party's only federal MP, while it elected four state MPs at the 1927 and 1929 Victorian state elections. The Country Progressives reunited with the main party in 1930.

Much like the Victorian Country Party was associated with the branches of the Victorian Farmers Union, the Country Progressive Party established the Primary Producers Union which established branches in parts of Victoria.

Election results

House of Representatives

Year	Australia					Victoria
	Seats won	±	Total votes	%	±%	Seats won	±	Total votes	%	±%
1928	1 / 75	1	41,713	1.61%	1.61%	1 / 20	1	41,713	4.94%	4.94%
1929	1 / 75	0	27,942	0.97%	0.64%	1 / 20	0	27,942	3.31%	1.63%

Victorian Legislative Assembly

Year	Overall					In seats contested
	Seats won	±	Total votes	%	±%	Seats won	±	Total votes	%	±%
1927	4 / 65	4	31,849	4.16%	4.16%	4 / 10	4	31,849	35.19%	35.19%
1929	4 / 65	0	33,798	5.34%	1.18%	4 / 10	0	33,798	38.69%	3.50%

Further reading

• Lamb, Antony (2009). Of Measures and Men: The Victorian Country Party, 1917 to 1945 (PDF) (PhD thesis). Swinburne University of Technology.