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Electoral results for the district of Stirling (South Australia)

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South Australian district election results

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

1968 South Australian state election: Stirling
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
1965 South Australian state election: Stirling
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
1962 South Australian state election: Stirling
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

1959 South Australian state election: Stirling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country William Jenkins unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1956 South Australian state election: Stirling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country William Jenkins unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1953 South Australian state election: Stirling
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.
1950 South Australian state election: Stirling
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

1947 South Australian state election: Stirling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Herbert Dunn unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1944 South Australian state election: Stirling
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.
1941 South Australian state election: Stirling
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

1938 South Australian state election: Stirling
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

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