Electoral results for the district of Townsville North
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Townsville North in Queensland state elections.
Members for Townsville North
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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Perc Tucker | Labor | 1960–1972 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Perc Tucker | 6,977 | 47.6 | −2.6 | |
Liberal | Keith Rundle | 3,695 | 25.2 | −10.8 | |
Country | Owen Griffiths | 2,488 | 17.0 | +17.0 | |
Queensland Labor | Peter Flanagan | 1,495 | 10.2 | −3.7 | |
Total formal votes | 14,655 | 98.6 | −0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 208 | 1.4 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 14,863 | 88.3 | −3.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Perc Tucker | 7,436 | 50.7 | −2.0 | |
Liberal | Keith Rundle | 7,219 | 49.3 | +2.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Perc Tucker | 6,862 | 50.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal | Robert Bonnett | 4,919 | 36.0 | +7.6 | |
Queensland Labor | J.J. McManus | 1,895 | 13.9 | −8.7 | |
Total formal votes | 13,676 | 98.9 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 154 | 1.1 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 13,830 | 91.8 | −1.8 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Perc Tucker | 7,214 | 52.7 | −0.5 | |
Liberal | Robert Bonnett | 6,464 | 47.3 | +0.5 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Perc Tucker | 6,196 | 48.4 | +5.0 | |
Liberal | Robert Bonnett | 3,639 | 28.4 | −5.7 | |
Queensland Labor | Kiernan Dorney | 2,896 | 22.6 | +9.0 | |
Independent | Alfred Reeves | 66 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 12,797 | 98.7 | +0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 163 | 1.3 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 12,960 | 93.6 | +0.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Perc Tucker | 6,806 | 53.2 | ||
Liberal | Robert Bonnett | 5,991 | 46.8 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Perc Tucker | 5,262 | 43.4 | ||
Liberal | Roy Annable | 4,140 | 34.1 | ||
Queensland Labor | Ronald Comerford | 1,655 | 13.6 | ||
Independent | Archibald Hooper | 871 | 7.2 | ||
Communist | P.F. Bishop | 208 | 1.7 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,136 | 98.6 | |||
Informal votes | 166 | 1.4 | |||
Turnout | 12,302 | 92.9 | |||
Labor win | (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1981). Voting for the Australian state lower houses, 1965-1974. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0909596735.