Electoral results for the district of Toowoomba East
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Toowoomba East in Queensland state elections.
Members for Toowoomba East
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Mervyn Anderson | Liberal | 1960–1966 | |
Peter Wood | Labor | 1966–1972 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Peter Wood | 7,993 | 53.4 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Sydney Goodrick | 6,012 | 40.2 | +24.4 | |
Queensland Labor | Francis Mullins | 954 | 6.4 | +0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 14,959 | 98.8 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 182 | 1.2 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 15,141 | 92.5 | −2.3 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Peter Wood | 8,170 | 54.6 | -0.7 | |
Liberal | Sydney Goodrick | 6,789 | 45.4 | +45.4 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Peter Wood | 7,814 | 51.9 | +3.0 | |
Country | John McCafferty | 3,668 | 26.5 | +26.5 | |
Liberal | Lawrence Storey | 2,183 | 15.8 | -29.8 | |
Queensland Labor | Francis Mullins | 761 | 5.5 | 0.0 | |
Independent | Gladys O'Sullivan | 58 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Total formal votes | 13,854 | 98.6 | −0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 200 | 1.4 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 14,054 | 94.8 | 0.0 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Peter Wood | 7,661 | 55.3 | +5.4 | |
Country | John McCafferty | 6,193 | 44.7 | +44.7 | |
Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Peter Wood | 6,454 | 48.9 | +2.5 | |
Liberal | Mervyn Anderson | 6,026 | 45.6 | -1.6 | |
Queensland Labor | Frank Mullins | 726 | 5.5 | -0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 13,206 | 99.1 | −0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 120 | 0.9 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 13,326 | 94.8 | +1.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Mervyn Anderson | 6,615 | 50.1 | ||
Labor | Peter Wood | 6,591 | 49.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Mervyn Anderson | 6,019 | 47.2 | ||
Labor | Peter Wood | 5,922 | 46.4 | ||
Queensland Labor | Leonard Green | 818 | 6.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,759 | 99.2 | |||
Informal votes | 97 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 12,856 | 93.3 | |||
Liberal win | (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1977). 1965-1974 Election Results. Canberra: Australian Nat. Univ. Pr. ISBN 0708113400.