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Results of the 1959 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly)

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Western Australian state election, 21 March 1959
Legislative Assembly
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Enrolled voters 292,596[1]
Votes cast 269,322 Turnout 92.05% –0.13%
Informal votes 6,937 Informal 2.58% –0.26%
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 117,861 44.92% –4.78% 23 – 6
  Liberal and Country 98,335 37.48% +4.34% 17 + 6
  Country 17,179 6.55% +1.31% 8 ± 0
  Democratic Labor 13,436 5.12% +5.12% 0 ± 0
  Ind. Lib. 10,008 3.81% –2.92% 2 ± 0
  Communist 2,216 0.84% +0.35% 0 ± 0
  Independent 3,350 1.28% –3.42% 0 ± 0
Total 262,385     50  

This is a list of electoral district results of the 1959 Western Australian election.

Results by Electoral district edit

Albany edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Albany[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Hall 3,041 53.8 +8.2
Liberal and Country Roy Wellington 1,199 21.2 +21.2
Country Vincent Liddelow 1,007 17.8 -16.9
Independent Charles Johnson 345 6.1 +6.1
Independent Ernest Rogers 63 1.1 +1.1
Total formal votes 5,655 98.3 -0.3
Informal votes 98 1.7 +0.3
Turnout 5,753 95.1 +1.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jack Hall 59.2 +9.0
Liberal and Country Roy Wellington 40.8 +40.8
Labor hold Swing +9.0
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Avon Valley edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Avon Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country James Mann 2,712 60.6 -1.5
Country John Stratton 1,761 39.4 +1.5
Total formal votes 4,473 97.7 +1.1
Informal votes 106 2.3 -1.1
Turnout 4,579 93.3 +1.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing -1.5

Beeloo edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Beeloo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin Jamieson 6,067 52.3 -14.5
Liberal and Country Gordon Clark 4,798 41.4 +8.2
Democratic Labor Patrick Riordan 735 6.3 +6.3
Total formal votes 11,600 97.3 +0.5
Informal votes 326 2.7 -0.5
Turnout 11,926 92.4 -0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Colin Jamieson 53.3 -13.5
Liberal and Country Gordon Clark 46.7 +13.5
Labor hold Swing -13.5
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Blackwood edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Blackwood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country John Hearman 2,239 50.8 -49.2
Country Duncan Muir 2,168 49.2 +49.2
Total formal votes 4,407 97.6
Informal votes 110 2.4
Turnout 4,517 92.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Boulder edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Boulder
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Arthur Moir unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Bunbury edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Bunbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Roberts 3,337 54.0 +3.1
Labor Forrest Hay 2,847 46.0 -3.1
Total formal votes 6,184 99.0 -0.1
Informal votes 64 1.0 +0.1
Turnout 6,248 95.7 -1.4
Liberal and Country hold Swing +3.1

Canning edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Canning
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Des O'Neil 6,514 51.0 +2.1
Labor Bill Gaffy 5,161 40.4 -10.7
Democratic Labor Michael O'Brien 1,087 8.5 +8.5
Total formal votes 12,762 98.6 +0.2
Informal votes 178 1.4 -0.2
Turnout 12,940 93.4 -0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Des O'Neil 58.2 +9.3
Labor Bill Gaffy 41.8 -9.3
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +9.3
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Claremont edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Claremont
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Harold Crommelin unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Collie edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Collie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Harry May 3,290 71.1 -3.4
Independent Norman Coote 1,335 28.9 +28.9
Total formal votes 4,625 98.8 +0.5
Informal votes 56 1.2 -0.5
Turnout 4,681 95.0 +0.7
Labor hold Swing N/A

Cottesloe edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Cottesloe
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Ross Hutchinson 5,058 59.9 -8.1
Labor Edmund Edwards 3,379 40.1 +40.1
Total formal votes 8,437 98.8 +1.8
Informal votes 99 1.2 -1.8
Turnout 8,536 92.2 +0.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Dale edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Dale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Gerald Wild 2,626 45.4 -11.3
Country Arthur Mills 1,450 25.1 +25.1
Independent Labor William Williams 1,054 18.2 +18.2
Country Andrew McPhail 653 11.3 +11.3
Total formal votes 5,783 96.8 -0.4
Informal votes 188 3.2 +0.4
Turnout 5,971 93.6 +1.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal and Country Gerald Wild 3,065 53.0 -3.7
Country Arthur Mills 2,718 47.0 +47.0
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Darling Range edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Darling Range
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Ray Owen 1,799 38.8 -61.2
Liberal and Country John Kostera 1,389 30.0 +30.0
Labor Henry Harris 1,211 26.1 +26.1
Democratic Labor Michael Coyne 236 5.1 +5.1
Total formal votes 4,635 98.0
Informal votes 94 2.0
Turnout 4,729 91.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Ray Owen 2,803 60.5 -39.5
Liberal and Country John Kostera 1,832 39.5 +39.5
Country hold Swing N/A

East Perth edit

1959 Western Australian state election: East Perth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Herb Graham 3,557 49.6 -16.2
Liberal and Country John Martin 2,835 39.6 +5.4
Democratic Labor John Deane 773 10.8 +10.8
Total formal votes 7,165 97.8 0.0
Informal votes 163 2.2 0.0
Turnout 7,328 89.2 -0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Herb Graham 3,818 53.3 -12.5
Liberal and Country John Martin 3,347 46.7 +12.5
Labor hold Swing -12.5

Eyre edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Eyre
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Emil Nulsen 2,685 68.9 -31.1
Liberal and Country Orlando Stuart 1,214 31.1 +31.1
Total formal votes 3,899 99.2
Informal votes 31 0.8
Turnout 3,930 87.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Fremantle edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Fremantle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Harry Fletcher 5,389 69.7 -21.5
Democratic Labor Henry Miller 1,981 25.6 +25.6
Communist Paddy Troy 367 4.7 -4.1
Total formal votes 7,737 95.6 -0.3
Informal votes 356 4.4 +0.3
Turnout 8,093 89.6 +0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Gascoyne edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 1,080 70.8 +1.1
Liberal and Country Thomas Orr 446 29.2 -1.1
Total formal votes 1,526 98.8 +1.0
Informal votes 19 1.2 -1.0
Turnout 1,545 87.1 +2.7
Labor hold Swing +1.1

Geraldton edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Geraldton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Sewell 3,257 59.9 0.0
Liberal and Country Gerald Throssell 1,778 32.7 +12.8
Democratic Labor Septimus Waldon 399 7.3 +7.3
Total formal votes 5,434 99.1 +0.5
Informal votes 50 0.9 -0.5
Turnout 5,484 91.3 -0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bill Sewell 61.0 -1.2
Liberal and Country Gerald Throssell 39.0 +1.2
Labor hold Swing -1.2
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Greenough edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Greenough
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country David Brand unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Guildford-Midland edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Guildford-Midland
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Brady 7,689 94.0 0.0
Communist John Gandini 493 6.0 0.0
Total formal votes 8,182 90.8 -4.5
Informal votes 824 9.2 +4.5
Turnout 9,006 92.6 +0.5
Labor hold Swing 0.0

Harvey edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Harvey
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Iven Manning unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Kalgoorlie edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Kalgoorlie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Evans 3,038 70.2 -0.3
Liberal and Country Percy Millington 817 18.9 -10.6
Independent Harold Illingworth 476 11.0 +11.0
Total formal votes 4,331 98.8 +0.6
Informal votes 52 1.2 -0.6
Turnout 4,383 92.5 -0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Tom Evans 75.6 +5.1
Liberal and Country Percy Millington 24.4 -5.1
Labor hold Swing +5.1
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Katanning edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Katanning
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Crawford Nalder unopposed
Country hold Swing

Kimberley edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Kimberley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Rhatigan 650 64.0 -36.0
Liberal and Country Nolan McDaniel 366 36.0 +36.0
Total formal votes 1,016 97.6
Informal votes 25 2.4
Turnout 1,041 75.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Leederville edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Leederville
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Guy Henn 3,991 46.5 -2.7
Labor Ted Johnson 3,497 40.8 -10.0
Democratic Labor John Antill 1,089 12.7 +12.7
Total formal votes 8,577 98.2 -0.1
Informal votes 158 1.8 +0.1
Turnout 8,735 94.3 +0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Guy Henn 4,951 57.7 +8.5
Labor Ted Johnson 3,626 42.3 -8.5
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +8.5

Maylands edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Maylands
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Merv Toms 5,299 58.2 +1.8
Liberal and Country Walter Bonnett 3,802 41.8 +18.6
Total formal votes 9,296 97.9 +0.2
Informal votes 195 2.1 -0.2
Turnout 9,296 93.5 +0.1
Labor hold Swing -0.3

Melville edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Melville
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Tonkin unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Merredin-Yilgarn edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Merredin-Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lionel Kelly 3,388 72.3 +14.9
Liberal and Country Ronald Lee 1,299 27.7 +9.6
Total formal votes 4,687 97.4 -1.0
Informal votes 123 2.6 +1.0
Turnout 4,810 91.0 -2.0
Labor hold Swing +13.1

Middle Swan edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 5,364 55.4 -44.6
Liberal and Country Francis Wilson 3,699 38.2 +38.2
Democratic Labor Brian Peachey 623 6.4 +6.4
Total formal votes 9,686 97.9
Informal votes 205 2.1
Turnout 9,891 91.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Hegney 56.3 -43.7
Liberal and Country Francis Wilson 43.7 +43.7
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Moore edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Moore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Edgar Lewis unopposed
Country hold Swing

Mount Hawthorn edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Mount Hawthorn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Hegney 6,406 56.3 -6.7
Liberal and Country Hugh O'Doherty 4,795 42.1 +8.8
Communist Edward Zeffertt 183 1.6 -2.1
Total formal votes 11,384 96.6 +0.5
Informal votes 398 3.4 -0.5
Turnout 11,782 93.4 +0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bill Hegney 57.7 -8.6
Liberal and Country Hugh O'Doherty 42.3 +8.6
Labor hold Swing -8.6

Mount Lawley edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Mount Lawley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Edward Oldfield 4,963 44.8 -23.0
Liberal and Country Alexander Barras 4,705 42.5 +10.3
Democratic Labor Ernest Parker 1,412 12.7 +12.7
Total formal votes 11,080 97.2 +2.2
Informal votes 321 2.8 -2.2
Turnout 11,401 93.6 -0.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Edward Oldfield 5,547 50.1 -17.7
Liberal and Country Alexander Barras 5,533 49.9 +17.7
Independent hold Swing -17.7

Mount Marshall edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Mount Marshall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country George Cornell unopposed
Country hold Swing

Murchison edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Murchison
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Everard O'Brien 1,638 47.0 -12.1
Liberal and Country Richard Burt 1,555 44.6 +3.7
Democratic Labor George Jensen 295 8.5 +8.5
Total formal votes 3,488 98.7 +1.5
Informal votes 47 1.3 -1.5
Turnout 3,535 87.8 +2.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Richard Burt 1,778 51.0 +10.1
Labor Everard O'Brien 1,710 49.0 -10.1
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +10.1

Murray edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Murray
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Ross McLarty unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Narrogin edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Narrogin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country William Manning 3,750 72.3 +50.9
Labor Percy Munday 1,434 27.7 -1.1
Total formal votes 5,184 98.8 +0.7
Informal votes 61 1.2 -0.7
Turnout 5,245 93.2 +0.1
Country hold Swing +6.8

Nedlands edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Nedlands
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Charles Court unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

North Perth edit

1959 Western Australian state election: North Perth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Ray O'Connor 3,490 46.3 +0.6
Labor Stan Lapham 3,321 44.1 -10.2
Democratic Labor William Sawyer 725 9.6 +9.6
Total formal votes 7,536 97.6 +0.2
Informal votes 188 2.4 -0.2
Turnout 7,724 91.9 -0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Ray O'Connor 4,060 53.9 +8.2
Labor Stan Lapham 3,476 46.1 -8.2
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +8.2

Northam edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Northam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Albert Hawke 2,911 57.6 -18.8
Liberal and Country Lawrence Solomon 1,860 36.8 +36.8
Democratic Labor Brian McGinty 285 5.6 +5.6
Total formal votes 5,056 99.2 +1.3
Informal votes 43 0.8 -1.3
Turnout 5,099 94.3 +2.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Albert Hawke 58.4 -18.0
Liberal and Country Lawrence Solomon 41.6 +41.6
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Pilbara edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Pilbara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Arthur Bickerton 656 62.0 -4.9
Liberal and Country Neil Radley 402 38.0 +4.9
Total formal votes 1,058 97.4 -1.3
Informal votes 28 2.6 +1.3
Turnout 1,086 76.1 -5.2
Labor hold Swing -4.9

Roe edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Roe
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Charles Perkins 2,669 58.1 -41.9
Independent Country Edward Biglin 1,922 41.9 +41.9
Total formal votes 4,591 98.4
Informal votes 74 1.6
Turnout 4,665 91.7
Country hold Swing N/A

South Fremantle edit

1959 Western Australian state election: South Fremantle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Dick Lawrence 8,186 87.5 +11.2
Communist George Kendrick 1,173 12.5 +12.5
Total formal votes 9,359 90.6 -5.6
Informal votes 973 9.4 +5.6
Turnout 10,332 89.8 -0.6
Labor hold Swing N/A

South Perth edit

1959 Western Australian state election: South Perth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Bill Grayden 5,045 54.5 +27.9
Liberal and Country George Strickland 4,208 45.5 +18.4
Total formal votes 9,253 97.2 -0.8
Informal votes 266 2.8 +0.8
Turnout 9,519 93.4 0.0
Independent Liberal hold Swing N/A

Stirling edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Stirling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Arthur Watts unopposed
Country hold Swing

Subiaco edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 3,943 46.7 +18.3
Labor Percival Potter 3,891 46.1 -1.2
Democratic Labor Ronald Bulbeck 604 7.2 +7.2
Total formal votes 8,438 98.1 +0.8
Informal votes 165 1.9 -0.8
Turnout 8,603 92.5 +0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 4,442 52.6 +4.3
Labor Percival Potter 3,996 47.4 -4.3
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +4.3

Toodyay edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Toodyay
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Rolinson 1,541 34.2 -15.1
Country James Craig 1,433 31.8 -18.9
Country Joseph Farrell 1,422 31.6 +31.6
Independent Labor John Acott 106 2.4 +2.4
Total formal votes 4,502 97.7 0.0
Informal votes 108 2.3 0.0
Turnout 4,610 91.9 +3.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country James Craig 2,773 61.6 +10.9
Labor John Rolinson 1,729 38.4 -10.9
Country hold Swing +10.9

Vasse edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Vasse
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country William Bovell 3,984 78.1 -21.9
Democratic Labor George Shervington 1,119 21.9 +21.9
Total formal votes 5,103 97.4
Informal votes 134 2.6
Turnout 5,237 94.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Victoria Park edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Victoria Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Hugh Andrew 4,878 51.3 -10.9
Liberal and Country David Hooper 3,188 33.5 -4.3
Independent Harold Hawthorne 789 8.3 +8.3
Democratic Labor William Carter 663 7.0 +7.0
Total formal votes 9,518 97.9 +0.1
Informal votes 199 2.1 -0.1
Turnout 9,717 92.7 -0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Hugh Andrew 56.4 -5.8
Liberal and Country David Hooper 43.6 +5.8
Labor hold Swing -5.8
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Warren edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Warren
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph Rowberry 2,684 53.4 -46.6
Liberal and Country Walter Muir 2,025 40.3 +40.3
Democratic Labor Paul Brennan 319 6.4 +6.4
Total formal votes 5,028 98.9
Informal votes 55 1.1
Turnout 5,083 96.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Joseph Rowberry 54.3 -45.7
Liberal and Country Walter Muir 45.7 +45.7
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Wembley Beaches edit

1959 Western Australian state election: Wembley Beaches
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Les Nimmo 7,884 52.0 +14.5
Labor Frederick Marshall 5,951 39.3 -10.2
Democratic Labor William Coyne 1,327 8.8 +8.8
Total formal votes 15,162 98.6 +0.9
Informal votes 212 1.4 -0.9
Turnout 15,374 95.2 +0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Les Nimmo 59.4 +11.3
Labor Frederick Marshall 40.6 -11.3
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing +11.3
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

West Perth edit

1959 Western Australian state election: West Perth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stanley Heal 3,421 50.7 -7.1
Liberal and Country Raymond Nowland 3,322 49.3 +7.1
Total formal votes 6,743 97.9 +0.6
Informal votes 145 2.1 -0.6
Turnout 6,888 87.9 -0.8
Labor hold Swing -7.1

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
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