Electoral results for the district of Darling Downs (Queensland)
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Darling Downs in Queensland state elections.
Members for Darling Downs
[edit]First incarnation (1873–1888)
[edit]Single member electorate (1873–1878)
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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Edward Wienholt | Unaligned | 1873–1875 | |
William Graham | Unaligned | 1875–1878 |
Dual member electorate (1878–1888)
[edit]Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
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William Miles | Oppositionist | 1878–1887 | Francis Kates | Ministerialist | 1878–1881 | ||
William Allan | Nationalist | 1881–1883 | |||||
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Francis Kates | Ministerialist | 1883–1888 | ||||
William Allan | Nationalist | 1887–1888 |
Second incarnation
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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Ray Hopper | Independent | 2001 | |
National | 2001–2008 | ||
Liberal National | 2008–2009 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 2000s
[edit]2006
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Ray Hopper | 13,883 | 59.54 | +9.02 | |
Labor | David Nelson | 6,161 | 26.42 | +3.02 | |
Family First | David Totenhofer | 3,273 | 14.04 | +14.04 | |
Total formal votes | 23,317 | 97.94 | −0.32 | ||
Informal votes | 490 | 2.06 | +0.32 | ||
Turnout | 23,807 | 93.08 | −1.10 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
National | Ray Hopper | 15,218 | 69.14 | +1.37 | |
Labor | David Nelson | 6,794 | 30.86 | −1.37 | |
National hold | Swing | +1.37 |
2004
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Ray Hopper | 11,671 | 50.5 | +11.5 | |
Labor | Annette Frizzell | 5,407 | 23.4 | +2.5 | |
Independent | Bruce Chalmers | 2,448 | 10.6 | +10.6 | |
One Nation | David Hoy | 1,902 | 8.2 | +8.2 | |
Independent | Kathy Sankey | 1,674 | 7.3 | +7.3 | |
Total formal votes | 23,102 | 98.3 | −0.0 | ||
Informal votes | 410 | 1.7 | +0.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,512 | 94.2 | −0.4 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
National | Ray Hopper | 13,329 | 67.9 | +18.9 | |
Labor | Annette Frizzell | 6,338 | 32.2 | +32.2 | |
National gain from Independent | Swing | N/A |
2001
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Ray Hopper | 9,069 | 40.0 | +40.0 | |
National | Peter Taylor | 8,855 | 39.1 | −5.6 | |
Labor | John Martin | 4,749 | 20.9 | +6.0 | |
Total formal votes | 22,673 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 400 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 23,073 | 94.6 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Ray Hopper | 9,651 | 51.1 | +51.1 | |
National | Peter Taylor | 9,226 | 48.9 | −6.4 | |
Independent gain from National | Swing | +51.1 |