Ernie Bond (politician)

Ernest Edward "Ernie" Bond (29 June 1897 – 25 July 1984) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Heywood to rural worker Robert Bond and Sarah Jane Mullens.

He attended Geelong High School and became a schoolteacher at Lavers Hill and Heywood, and then head teacher at Greenwald and Condah.

On 20 July 1923 he married Ethel Thomas, with whom he had three children.

A member of the Labor Party's Heywood branch from the age of seventeen, he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Glenelg in 1924; he transferred to Port Fairy and Glenelg in 1927.