1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election

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Elections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia on 7 April 1956 to elect 10 of the 30 members of the state's Legislative Council.

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Results

Legislative Council

Western Australian state election, 7 April 1956 [1]
Legislative Council

Enrolled voters100,773
Votes cast50,935 Turnout 73.3+24.3
Informal votes855Informal1.7+0.7
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes %SwingSeats
won
Seats
held
  Liberal and Country 26,17852.3+12.139
  Labor 23,01846.0–9.0413
  Country ***38
  Independent 8841.8–2.200
Total50,080  1030

Retiring Members

LCL

Candidates

ProvinceHeld by Labor candidates LCL candidates Country candidates Independent candidates
 
Central Country Leslie Diver
Metropolitan LCL Herbert Fletcher Keith Watson Ray O'Connor (Ind. Lib)
Midland Country Ray Jones
North Labor Harry Strickland Edmund Webb
North-East Labor Eric Heenan James Boyd
South Country Jack Thomson
South-East LCL Archibald McGillivray John Cunningham
South-West LCL Ernest Stapleton Graham MacKinnon
Suburban LCL George Jeffery William McPherson
West Labor Evan Davies

Election results

Central

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Leslie Diver unopposed
Country hold Swing

Metropolitan

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Metropolitan
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Keith Watson 8,87359.6N/A
Labor Herbert Fletcher5,12734.5+34.5
Independent Liberal Ray O'Connor 8845.9+5.9
Total formal votes14,88498.2N/A
Informal votes2751.8N/A
Turnout 15,15973.0N/A
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Midland

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Midland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Ray Jones unopposed
Country hold Swing

North

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Harry Strickland 90663.7+12.2
Liberal and Country Edmund Webb51736.3+2.7
Total formal votes1,42398.7+1.4
Informal votes181.3-1.4
Turnout 1,42382.4+3.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

North-East

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: North-East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Eric Heenan 2,11365.8+7.7
Liberal and Country James Boyd1,09834.2-7.7
Total formal votes3,21198.2-0.8
Informal votes581.8+0.8
Turnout 3,26975.1+2.0
Labor hold Swing +7.7

South

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Jack Thomson unopposed
Country hold Swing

South-East

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: South-East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country John Cunningham 2,22551.0+3.3
Labor Archibald McGillivray2,14149.0-3.3
Total formal votes4,36698.9+0.1
Informal votes531.1-0.1
Turnout 4,41975.9+12.1
Liberal and Country hold Swing +3.3

South-West

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: South-West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Graham MacKinnon 4,45759.8N/A
Labor Ernest Stapleton2,99240.2+40.2
Total formal votes7,44998.5N/A
Informal votes1151.5N/A
Turnout 7,56467.7N/A
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Suburban

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Suburban
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor George Jeffery 9,73952.0+4.0
Liberal and Country William McPherson9,00848.0-4.0
Total formal votes18,74798.2-1.0
Informal votes3361.8+1.0
Turnout 19,08374.5+25.7
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +4.0

West

1956 Western Australian Legislative Council election: West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Evan Davies unopposed
Labor hold Swing

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References

  1. Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia: membership register, electoral law and statistics 1890-1989. Perth, WA: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project. ISBN   0730936414.