This is a list of election results for the electoral district of Stirling in South Australian elections.
Members for Stirling
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Herbert Dunn | Independent | 1938–1940 | |
Liberal and Country | 1940–1952 | ||
William Jenkins | Liberal and Country | 1952–1963 | |
William McAnaney | Liberal and Country | 1963–1970 |
Election results
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William McAnaney | 5,124 | 72.0 | +1.1 | |
Labor | Glenton Gregory | 1,989 | 28.0 | −1.1 | |
Total formal votes | 7,113 | 98.3 | −0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 122 | 1.7 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 7,235 | 96.3 | −0.2 | ||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William McAnaney | 4,906 | 70.9 | +4.7 | |
Labor | Allan Stevens | 2,011 | 29.1 | +29.1 | |
Total formal votes | 6,917 | 99.0 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.5 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 6,989 | 96.5 | +0.4 | ||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William Jenkins | 4,497 | 66.2 | −33.8 | |
Independent | Clifford Thorpe | 2,293 | 33.8 | +33.8 | |
Total formal votes | 6,790 | 98.5 | |||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 6,892 | 96.1 | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William Jenkins | unopposed | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William Jenkins | unopposed | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | William Jenkins | 3,507 | 52.9 | −3.7 | |
Independent | William McAnaney | 2,141 | 32.3 | 32.3 | |
Independent | Orlando Hutchinson | 985 | 14.8 | +14.8 | |
Total formal votes | 6,633 | 97.6 | −0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 161 | 2.4 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 6,794 | 97.0 | +1.8 | ||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Herbert Dunn | 3,711 | 56.6 | −43.4 | |
Independent | William Jenkins | 2,844 | 43.4 | +43.4 | |
Total formal votes | 6,555 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 115 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 6,670 | 95.2 | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Herbert Dunn | unopposed | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Herbert Dunn | 2,996 | 54.2 | +25.2 | |
Labor | J McTier | 1,284 | 23.2 | +23.2 | |
Independent | S D Bruce | 1,248 | 22.6 | +22.6 | |
Total formal votes | 5,528 | 97.4 | −1.3 | ||
Informal votes | 148 | 2.6 | +1.3 | ||
Turnout | 5,676 | 91.1 | +33.5 | ||
Liberal and Country gain from Independent | Swing | N/A |
- Sitting MP for Stirling, Herbert Dunn had been elected as an Independent in the previous election, but joined the LCL before this election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Herbert Dunn | 1,306 | 35.9 | −1.1 | |
Liberal and Country | Alick Fuller | 1,057 | 29.0 | +0.9 | |
Independent | Frederick Keen | 1,040 | 28.6 | +28.6 | |
Independent | Lindsay Yelland | 240 | 6.6 | +6.6 | |
Total formal votes | 3,643 | 98.7 | 0.0 | ||
Informal votes | 47 | 1.3 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 3,690 | 57.6 | −10.6 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Herbert Dunn | 2,113 | 58.0 | +2.3 | |
Independent | Frederick Keen | 1,530 | 42.0 | +42.0 | |
Independent hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Samuel Pearce | 1,597 | 37.0 | ||
Independent | Herbert Dunn | 1,503 | 34.8 | ||
Liberal and Country | Percy Heggaton | 1,214 | 28.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 4,314 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 58 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 4,372 | 68.2 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Herbert Dunn | 2,401 | 55.7 | ||
Independent | Samuel Pearce | 1,913 | 44.3 | ||
Independent gain from Liberal and Country | Swing |