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Western Australian district election results

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Gascoyne in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Gascoyne

Member Party Term
  Robert Frederick Sholl Opposition 1890–1897
  George Hubble Ministerial 1897–1901
  William Butcher Independent 1901–1905
  Ministerial 1905–1911
  John McDonald Labor 1911–1914
  Archibald Gilchrist Liberal (WA) 1914–1917
  Edward Angelo Nationalist 1917–1920
  Country 1920–1923
  Country (MCP) 1923–1924
  Nationalist 1924–1933
  Frank Wise Labor 1933–1951
  Noel Butcher Independent Liberal 1951–1953
  Daniel Norton Labor 1953–1974
  Ian Laurance Liberal 1974–1987
  Dudley Maslen Liberal 1987–1989

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1987 Gascoyne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Dudley Maslen 2,165 53.0 −7.5
Labor Kevin Leahy 1,919 47.0 +7.5
Total formal votes 4,084 98.2 +0.4
Informal votes 73 1.8 −0.4
Turnout 4,157 81.6 −4.3
Liberal hold Swing −7.5
1986 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,600 60.5 −1.3
Labor Kevin Leahy 1,697 39.5 +1.3
Total formal votes 4,297 97.8 +0.5
Informal votes 96 2.2 −0.5
Turnout 4,393 85.9 +1.3
Liberal hold Swing −1.3
1983 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,026 61.8
Labor John Cunningham 1,253 38.2
Total formal votes 3,279 97.3
Informal votes 91 2.7
Turnout 3,370 84.6
Liberal hold Swing
1980 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,015 61.6 −7.9
Labor Robert Price 1,183 36.1 +9.6
Independent Robert Phillips 75 2.3 −1.7
Total formal votes 3,273 97.2 +0.1
Informal votes 95 2.8 −0.1
Turnout 3,368 87.7 −1.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,052 62.7 −8.9
Labor Robert Price 1,221 37.3 +8.9
Liberal hold Swing −8.9

Elections in the 1970s

1977 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,192 69.5
Labor Robert Brown 834 26.5
Independent Robert Phillips 127 4.0
Total formal votes 3,153 97.1
Informal votes 95 2.9
Turnout 3,248 89.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,256 71.6 +6.2
Labor Robert Brown 897 28.4 −6.2
Liberal hold Swing +6.2
1974 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Laurance 1,610 50.5
Labor Frank Davis 955 30.0
National Alliance Wilson Tuckey 511 16.0
Independent Robert Phillips 111 3.5
Total formal votes 3,187 95.3
Informal votes 156 4.7
Turnout 3,343 88.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Ian Laurance 2,100 65.9
Labor Frank Davis 1,087 34.1
Liberal gain from Labor Swing
1971 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 1,546 58.1 −4.1
Liberal Keith Hasleby 839 31.5 −2.6
Independent Robert Phillips 167 6.3 +6.3
Democratic Labor Kevin Courtney 110 4.1 +4.1
Total formal votes 2,662 96.1 −1.3
Informal votes 109 3.9 +1.3
Turnout 2,771 84.4 −0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Daniel Norton 1,645 61.8 −2.3
Liberal Keith Hasleby 1,017 38.2 +2.3
Labor hold Swing −2.3

Elections in the 1960s

1968 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 1,321 62.2
Liberal and Country Peter Butler 724 34.1
Independent Neville Brandstater 79 3.7
Total formal votes 2,124 97.4
Informal votes 56 2.6
Turnout 2,180 84.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Daniel Norton 1,361 64.1
Liberal and Country Peter Butler 763 35.9
Labor hold Swing
1965 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 1,064 62.5 −37.5
Liberal and Country Stewart Maver 556 32.7 +32.7
Independent Neville Brandstater 82 4.8 +4.8
Total formal votes 1,702 97.5
Informal votes 43 2.5
Turnout 1,745 85.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Daniel Norton 1,106 65.8 −2.2
Liberal and Country Stewart Maver 596 34.2 +2.2
Labor hold Swing −2.2
1962 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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
1956 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 1,068 69.7
Liberal and Country Kenneth Illingworth 465 30.3
Total formal votes 1,533 97.8
Informal votes 35 2.2
Turnout 1,568 84.4
Labor hold Swing
1953 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 726 50.4 −26.1
Independent Liberal Noel Butcher 519 36.0 +36.0
Liberal and Country Robert Iles 116 8.1 −15.4
Total formal votes 1,440 96.3 −0.9
Informal votes 55 3.7 +0.9
Turnout 1,495 90.2 +4.4
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
  • Gascoyne had been won by the Independent Liberal candidate in the 1951 by-election.
1951 Gascoyne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Norton 537 45.7 −30.8
Independent Liberal Noel Butcher 356 30.3 +30.3
Liberal and Country John Dempster 256 21.8 −1.7
All Parties Administration Carlyle Ferguson 27 2.3 +2.3
Total formal votes 1,176 98.9 +1.7
Informal votes 13 1.1 −1.7
Turnout 1,189 87.6 +1.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Liberal Noel Butcher 603 51.3 +51.3
Labor Daniel Norton 573 48.7 −27.8
Independent Liberal gain from Labor Swing N/A
1950 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise 946 76.5
Liberal and Country Noel Butcher 290 23.5
Total formal votes 1,236 97.2
Informal votes 35 2.8
Turnout 1,271 85.8
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1943 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1936 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise 683 81.4 +19.0
Country Jack Pericles 156 18.6 +18.6
Total formal votes 839 99.5 +0.4
Informal votes 4 0.5 −0.4
Turnout 843 71.5 −11.9
Labor hold Swing +19.0
1933 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Wise 610 62.4 +17.7
Nationalist Edward Angelo 368 37.6 −17.7
Total formal votes 969 99.1 −0.1
Informal votes 9 0.9 +0.1
Turnout 987 83.4 +0.9
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing +17.7
1930 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Edward Angelo 639 55.3
Labor James Hickey 517 44.7
Total formal votes 1,156 99.2
Informal votes 9 0.8
Turnout 1,165 82.5
Nationalist hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Edward Angelo 613 58.8 +3.2
Labor William Willesee 430 41.2 −3.2
Total formal votes 1,043 98.7 −0.6
Informal votes 14 1.3 +0.6
Turnout 1,057 76.2 +8.0
Nationalist hold Swing +3.2
1924 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Edward Angelo 490 55.6 −5.1
Labor William Willesee 391 44.4 +17.9
Total formal votes 881 99.3 +0.3
Informal votes 6 0.7 −0.3
Turnout 887 68.2 +7.3
Country hold Swing N/A
1921 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Edward Angelo 412 60.7 +60.7
Labor George Jones 180 26.5 +26.5
Independent Edmund Holden 87 12.8 +12.8
Total formal votes 679 99.0 −1.0
Informal votes 7 1.0 +1.0
Turnout 686 60.9 +7.6
Country gain from Nationalist Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Edward Angelo 313 65.2 +65.2
National Liberal Archibald Gilchrist 167 34.8 –24.9
Total formal votes 480 100.0 +0.4
Informal votes 0 0.0 –0.4
Turnout 480 53.3 –10.1
Nationalist gain from National Liberal Swing +65.2
  • Gilchrist's designation at the 1914 election was simply "Liberal", rather than "National Liberal".
1914 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Archibald Gilchrist 435 59.7 +13.3
Labor Edward Pearson 294 40.3 −13.3
Total formal votes 729 99.6 +0.2
Informal votes 3 0.4 −0.2
Turnout 732 63.4 +14.9
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +13.3
1911 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John McDonald 468 53.6
Ministerialist William Butcher 405 46.4
Total formal votes 873 99.4
Informal votes 5 0.6
Turnout 878 48.5
Labor gain from Ministerialist Swing
1910 Gascoyne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist William Butcher unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist William Butcher unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1905 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist William Butcher unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1904 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent William Butcher unopposed
Independent hold Swing
1901 Western Australian state election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Opposition William Butcher 126 66.0 +66.0
Ministerialist David Forrest 65 34.0 –66.0
Total formal votes 191 99.5 n/a
Informal votes 1 0.5 n/a
Turnout 192 47.6 n/a
Opposition gain from Ministerialist Swing +66.0
  • George Hubble, the sitting Ministerialist member, had held the seat unopposed in 1897.

Elections in the 1890s

1899 Gascoyne colonial by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist George Hubble unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
  • This by-election was called because sitting member George Hubble was declared bankrupt, and the law at the time required that he had to resign his seat. However, he won it unopposed in the resulting by-election.
1897 Western Australian colonial election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist George Hubble unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1894 Western Australian colonial election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None Robert Sholl unopposed
1890 Western Australian colonial election: Gascoyne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None Robert F. Sholl unopposed

References

  1. Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, : Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
Electoral results for the former districts of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
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