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1946 Wimmera by-election

Australian federal by-election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ8023553 ↗
Source-derived summary

A by-election was held in the Wimmera electorate in regional Victoria on 9 February 1946, following the resignation of independent MP Alexander Wilson.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8023553. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “1946 Wimmera by-election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.