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Western Australian district election results

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

Members for Subiaco

Member Party Term
  Henry Daglish Labour 1901–1905
  Independent Labour 1905–1908
  Ministerial 1908–1911
  Bartholomew Stubbs Labor 1911–1917
  Samuel Brown Nationalist 1917–1921
  Walter Richardson National Labor 1921–1925
  Nationalist 1925–1933
  John Moloney Labor 1933–1936
  Florence Cardell-Oliver Nationalist 1936–1945
  Liberal 1945–1949
  Liberal Country League 1949–1956
  Percival Potter Labor 1956–1959
  Hugh Guthrie Liberal Country League 1959–1968
  Liberal 1968–1971
  Dr Tom Dadour Liberal 1971–1984
  Independent 1984–1986
  Dr Carmen Lawrence Labor 1986–1989

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1986 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Carmen Lawrence 7,949 50.2 +1.8
Liberal Ross McLean 7,403 46.7 −1.7
Independent Geoff Stuart 488 3.1 +3.1
Total formal votes 15,840 97.5 −0.2
Informal votes 400 2.5 +0.2
Turnout 16,240 89.7 +4.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Carmen Lawrence 8,189 51.7 +3.3
Liberal Ross McLean 7,651 48.3 −3.3
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.3
1983 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Dadour 7,108 51.6
Labor William Bartholomaeus 6,666 48.4
Total formal votes 13,774 97.7
Informal votes 322 2.3
Turnout 14,096 85.4
Liberal hold Swing
1980 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Dadour 8,175 63.9 −0.2
Labor Marcelle Anderson 4,613 36.1 +0.2
Total formal votes 12,788 97.4 −0.3
Informal votes 341 2.6 +0.3
Turnout 13,129 83.8 −3.9
Liberal hold Swing −0.2

Elections in the 1970s

1977 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Dadour 8,690 64.1
Labor Wendy Fatin 4,868 35.9
Total formal votes 13,558 97.7
Informal votes 315 2.3
Turnout 13,873 87.7
Liberal hold Swing +7.6
1974 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Dadour 6,339 49.9
Labor Phillip Hall 5,241 41.3
National Alliance Francis Dwyer 752 5.9
Australia Ronald Hislop 373 2.9
Total formal votes 12,705 95.7
Informal votes 567 4.3
Turnout 13,272 87.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Dadour 7,169 56.4
Labor Phillip Hall 5,536 43.6
Liberal hold Swing
1971 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Dadour 5,338 46.8 −1.1
Labor Dennis Kemp 4,595 40.3 −6.1
Democratic Labor Francis Dwyer 1,191 10.5 +10.5
Defence of Government Schools Patrick Holland 272 2.4 +2.4
Total formal votes 11,396 97.0 −0.6
Informal votes 355 3.0 +0.6
Turnout 11,751 87.8 −2.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Dadour 6,254 54.9 +4.5
Labor Dennis Kemp 5,142 45.1 −4.5
Liberal hold Swing +4.5

Elections in the 1960s

1968 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 5,316 47.9
Labor Ronnay Foster 5,153 46.4
Independent Jacqueline Lander 639 5.7
Total formal votes 11,108 97.6
Informal votes 276 2.4
Turnout 11,384 90.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 5,603 50.4
Labor Ronnay Foster 5,505 49.6
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1965 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 5,274 53.3 +5.7
Labor Frank Baden-Powell 4,040 40.9 −2.5
Democratic Labor John Martyr 573 5.8 −3.1
Total formal votes 9,887 97.5 −1.1
Informal votes 258 2.5 +1.1
Turnout 10,145 91.7 −0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 5,761 58.3 +3.2
Labor Frank Baden-Powell 4,126 41.7 −3.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing +3.2
1962 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 4,994 47.6
Labor Percival Potter 4,552 43.4
Democratic Labor Francis Dwyer 936 7.2
Total formal votes 8,438 98.1
Informal votes 165 1.9
Turnout 8,603 92.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Hugh Guthrie 4,442 52.6
Labor Percival Potter 3,996 47.4
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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
1956 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Percival Potter 4,134 47.3
Liberal and Country Edgar Paddick 2,486 28.4
Independent Liberal Joseph Abrahams 1,791 20.5
Independent Liberal Walter Richardson 336 3.8
Total formal votes 8,747 97.3
Informal votes 242 2.7
Turnout 8,989 92.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Percival Potter 4,520 51.7
Liberal and Country Edgar Paddick 4,227 48.3
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing
1953 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Florence Cardell-Oliver 4,310 56.7 −5.5
Labor Thomas Henley 3,293 43.3 +5.5
Total formal votes 7,603 98.4 −0.3
Informal votes 124 1.6 +0.3
Turnout 7,727 93.7 +2.1
Liberal and Country hold Swing −5.5
1950 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Florence Cardell-Oliver 5,072 62.2
Labor Thomas Henley 3,081 37.8
Total formal votes 8,153 98.7
Informal votes 107 1.3
Turnout 8,260 91.6
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Florence Cardell-Oliver 4,450 62.7 +4.0
Labor Percival Potter 2,651 37.3 −4.0
Total formal votes 7,101 98.2 +0.7
Informal votes 129 1.8 −0.7
Turnout 7,230 90.6 −3.2
Liberal hold Swing +4.0
1943 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Florence Cardell-Oliver 4,132 58.7 +18.5
Labor William Lonnie 2,909 41.3 +4.4
Total formal votes 7,041 97.5 −1.5
Informal votes 183 2.5 +1.5
Turnout 7,224 93.8 −1.3
Nationalist hold Swing +0.7

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Florence Cardell-Oliver 2,963 40.2 +16.3
Labor William Lonnie 2,714 36.9 −1.6
Ind. Nationalist Walter Richardson 1,686 22.9 −0.2
Total formal votes 7,363 98.9 −0.3
Informal votes 80 1.1 +0.3
Turnout 7,443 95.1 +14.5
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Florence Cardell-Oliver 4,272 58.0 +2.2
Labor William Lonnie 3,091 42.0 −2.2
Nationalist hold Swing +2.2
1936 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Moloney 2,320 38.5 −5.1
Nationalist Florence Cardell-Oliver 1,442 23.9 −13.3
Nationalist Walter Richardson 1,392 23.1 +23.1
Nationalist Harry Downe 877 14.5 +14.5
Total formal votes 6,031 99.2 +1.6
Informal votes 47 0.8 −1.6
Turnout 6,078 80.6 −12.3
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Florence Cardell-Oliver 3,364 55.8 +8.3
Labor John Moloney 2,667 44.2 −8.3
Nationalist gain from Labor Swing +8.3
1933 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Moloney 2,873 43.6 +2.1
Nationalist Walter Richardson 2,453 37.2 −21.3
Independent John Bathgate 1,269 19.2 +19.2
Total formal votes 6,595 97.6 −1.4
Informal votes 164 2.4 +1.4
Turnout 6,759 92.9 +14.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Moloney 3,463 52.5 +11.0
Nationalist Walter Richardson 3,132 47.5 −11.0
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing +11.0
1930 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Walter Richardson 3,233 58.5
Labor Richard Nash 2,290 41.5
Total formal votes 5,469 99.0
Informal votes 54 1.0
Turnout 5,577 78.5
Nationalist hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Walter Richardson 4,489 55.1 +11.6
Labor John Leonard 3,653 44.9 +11.9
Total formal votes 8,142 99.0 +0.3
Informal votes 83 1.0 −0.3
Turnout 8,225 77.5 +13.7
Nationalist hold Swing −8.3
1924 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Walter Richardson 2,584 43.5 +18.8
Labor Ephraim Freedman 1,963 33.0 −1.2
Nationalist Clifford Sadlier 1,395 23.5 +23.5
Total formal votes 5,942 98.7 +0.2
Informal votes 77 1.3 −0.2
Turnout 6,019 63.8 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Walter Richardson 3,768 63.4 +63.4
Labor Ephraim Freedman 2,174 36.6 −2.8
Nationalist gain from National Labor Swing N/A
  • Walter Richardson was the sitting member for Subiaco, who changed from the National Labor party to the Nationalists prior to the election.
1921 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Labor Walter Richardson 2,020 41.0 +41.0
Labor Arthur Ramsbottom 1,686 34.2 −65.8
Nationalist Samuel Brown 1,218 24.7 +24.7
Total formal votes 4,924 98.5
Informal votes 73 1.5
Turnout 4,997 63.8
Two-party-preferred result
National Labor Walter Richardson 2,985 60.6 +60.6
Labor Arthur Ramsbottom 1,939 39.4 −60.6
National Labor gain from Labor Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Subiaco state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edwin Corboy 1,873 40.4 –59.6
Nationalist Charles Heppingstone 770 16.6 +16.6
Nationalist Samuel Brown 696 15.0 +15.0
Nationalist James Guy 588 12.7 +12.7
Nationalist Edwin Whittaker 448 9.7 +9.7
Nationalist Thomas Treweek 150 3.2 +3.2
Nationalist James Chesters 110 2.4 +2.4
Total formal votes 4,635 97.7 n/a
Informal votes 107 2.3 n/a
Turnout 4,742 69.6 n/a
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist Samuel Brown 2,376 51.3 n/a
Labor Edwin Corboy 2,259 48.7 n/a
Nationalist gain from Labor Swing n/a
1917 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bartholomew Stubbs unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1914 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bartholomew Stubbs 2,763 50.4 −0.4
Liberal Henry Daglish 2,717 49.6 +0.4
Total formal votes 5,480 99.5 +7.5
Informal votes 29 0.5 −7.5
Turnout 5,509 63.6 −14.8
Labor hold Swing −0.4
1911 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bartholomew Stubbs 1,846 50.8
Ministerialist Henry Daglish 1,786 49.2
Total formal votes 3,632 92.0
Informal votes 314 8.0
Turnout 3,946 78.4
Labor gain from Ministerialist Swing

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist Henry Daglish 2,527 61.1 +13.0
Labour Walter Richardson 1,606 38.9 +38.9
Total formal votes 4,133 99.0 +0.2
Informal votes 41 1.0 −0.2
Turnout 4,174 80.4 +18.7
Ministerialist gain from Independent Labour Swing N/A
1905 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Labour Henry Daglish 1,086 51.9 –28.1
Ministerialist Samuel Brown 1,006 48.1 +48.1
Total formal votes 2,092 99.2 –0.2
Informal votes 17 0.8 +0.2
Turnout 2,109 61.7 –10.2
Independent Labour hold Swing N/A
1904 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Henry Daglish 1,890 80.0 +30.4
Independent William Thomas 473 20.0 +20.0
Total formal votes 2,363 99.4 +2.0
Informal votes 14 0.6 –2.0
Turnout 2,377 71.9 +15.4
Labour hold Swing +30.4
1901 Western Australian state election: Subiaco
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Henry Daglish 828 49.6 +49.6
Independent Samuel Brown 535 32.1 +32.1
Independent John Brickhill 180 10.8 +10.8
Independent Richard Sparrow 126 7.5 +7.5
Total formal votes 1,669 97.4 n/a
Informal votes 44 2.6 n/a
Turnout 1,713 56.5 n/a
Labour win (new seat)

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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