Electoral results for the district of Townsville East
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Townsville East in Queensland state elections.
Members for Townsville East
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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Geoff Smith | Labor | 1986–1992 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Geoff Smith | 11,009 | 61.8 | +8.8 | |
National | Dickway Goon Chew | 4,487 | 25.2 | −5.8 | |
Liberal | Susanne Luckel | 2,313 | 13.0 | −2.9 | |
Total formal votes | 17,809 | 97.0 | −1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 555 | 3.0 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 18,364 | 89.0 | +0.1 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Geoff Smith | 11,451 | 64.3 | +6.8 | |
National | Dickway Goon Chew | 6,358 | 35.7 | −6.8 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Geoff Smith | 8,936 | 53.0 | ||
National | Dickway Goon Chew | 5,234 | 31.1 | ||
Liberal | Vincent Nielsen | 2,686 | 15.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,856 | 98.1 | |||
Informal votes | 332 | 1.9 | |||
Turnout | 17,188 | 88.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Geoff Smith | 9,692 | 57.5 | −2.4 | |
National | Dickway Goon Chew | 7,164 | 42.5 | +2.4 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −2.4 |
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "1989 Results for Townsville East". Queensland Election Archive. ABC. Retrieved 7 August 2021.