This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Haughton in Queensland state elections.
Members for Haughton
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Colin McCathie | Labor | 1950–1957 | |
Queensland Labor | 1957–1960 |
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Queensland Labor | Colin McCathie | 4,164 | 48.1 | +48.1 | |
Labor | Vivien Owens | 2,393 | 27.6 | −42.8 | |
Country | William Clayton | 2,105 | 24.3 | +24.3 | |
Total formal votes | 8,662 | 99.3 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 64 | 0.7 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 8,726 | 95.2 | +0.5 | ||
Queensland Labor gain from Labor | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin McCathie | 5,737 | 70.4 | +11.2 | |
Liberal | Edwin Pearse | 2,415 | 29.6 | +29.6 | |
Total formal votes | 8,152 | 98.9 | −0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 88 | 1.1 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 8,240 | 94.7 | −1.6 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin McCathie | 4,617 | 59.2 | +12.3 | |
Country | Frederick Purdie | 1,661 | 21.3 | +21.3 | |
NQ Labor | Ernest O'Brien | 1,526 | 19.6 | 0.0 | |
Total formal votes | 7,804 | 99.4 | +1.4 | ||
Informal votes | 46 | 0.6 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,850 | 96.3 | +3.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +13.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin McCathie | 3,492 | 46.9 | ||
Liberal | Bill Longeran | 2,349 | 31.5 | ||
NQ Labor | Ernest O'Brien | 1,463 | 19.6 | ||
Communist | Gwendoline Phelan | 143 | 1.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 7,447 | 98.0 | |||
Informal votes | 151 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,598 | 93.0 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
References
- Hughes, Colin A. (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0708103014.