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Electoral results for the district of Beeloo

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

Members for Beeloo

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Member Party Term
  Colin Jamieson Labor 1956–1968

Election results

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Elections in the 1960s

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1965 Western Australian state election: Beeloo[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin Jamieson 6,440 60.1 +1.5
Liberal and Country Henry Watson 4,271 39.9 +6.0
Total formal votes 10,711 95.9 −2.1
Informal votes 463 4.1 +2.1
Turnout 11,174 92.3 −1.4
Labor hold Swing +0.4
1962 Western Australian state election: Beeloo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin Jamieson 5,942 58.6
Liberal and Country William How 3,436 33.9
Democratic Labor Philip De Lacey 758 7.5
Total formal votes 10,136 98.0
Informal votes 202 2.0
Turnout 10,338 93.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Colin Jamieson 59.7
Liberal and Country William How 40.3
Labor hold Swing
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.

Elections in the 1950s

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1959 Western Australian state election: Beeloo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin Jamieson 6,067 52.3 −14.5
Liberal and Country Gordon Clark 4,798 41.4 +8.2
Democratic Labor Patrick Riordan 735 6.3 +6.3
Total formal votes 11,600 97.3 +0.5
Informal votes 326 2.7 −0.5
Turnout 11,926 92.4 −0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Colin Jamieson 53.3 −13.5
Liberal and Country Gordon Clark 46.7 +13.5
Labor hold Swing −13.5
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1956 Western Australian state election: Beeloo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin Jamieson 6,418 66.8
Liberal and Country John Alden 3,186 33.2
Total formal votes 9,604 96.8
Informal votes 316 3.2
Turnout 9,920 93.0
Labor hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.