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All 78 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 40 Assembly seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 813,584 8.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 752,927 (92.54%) (2.04 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 28 May 1960 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election followed the enactment of the Electoral Districts Act 1958 which increased the Assembly from 75 to 78 seats and modified the zonal system first established by Labor ahead of the 1950 election.
The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party led by Premier Frank Nicklin, the Liberal Party led by Kenneth Morris, the Labor Party led by Jack Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party led by Vince Gair. The Country and Liberal parties had formed a coalition.
The Country-Liberal coalition won a second term in office at the election, although the Labor Party recovered 5 seats and 11% of its vote from the 1957 election. Still, it was the first time since 1912 that a non-Labor government had been re-elected in Queensland.
Date | Event |
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13 April 1960 | The Parliament was dissolved. [1] |
19 April 1960 | Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election. [2] |
26 April 1960 | Close of nominations. |
28 May 1960 | Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm. |
9 June 1960 | The Nicklin Ministry was reconstituted. |
8 July 1960 | The writ was returned and the results formally declared. |
23 August 1960 | Parliament resumed for business. [3] |
Queensland state election, 28 May 1960 [4] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 813,584 [1] | |||||
Votes cast | 752,927 | Turnout | 92.54 | –2.04 | ||
Informal votes | 9,897 | Informal | 1.31 | +0.17 | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 296,430 | 39.89 | +11.00 | 25 | + 5 | |
Liberal | 178,567 | 24.03 | +0.80 | 20 | + 2 | |
Country | 144,865 | 19.50 | –0.49 | 26 | + 2 | |
Queensland Labor | 91,212 | 12.28 | –11.12 | 4 | – 7 | |
Independent | 30,897 | 4.16 | 3 | + 2 | ||
Other | 1,059 | 0.14 | 0 | ± 0 | ||
Total | 743,030 | 78 | ||||
There was an extensive redistribution across Queensland prior to this election, increasing the amount of seats from 75 to 78. The seat changes are as follows.
Seat | Incumbent member | Party | |
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Belyando | Tom Foley | Queensland Labor | |
Bremer | Jim Donald | Labor | |
Buranda | Keith Hooper | Liberal | |
Carpentaria | Norm Smith | Queensland Labor | |
Charters Towers | Arthur Jones | Queensland Labor | |
Chermside | Alex Dewar | Liberal | |
Coorparoo | Thomas Hiley | Liberal | |
Fitzroy | Jim Clark | Labor | |
Fortitude Valley | Bob Windsor | Liberal | |
Haughton | Colin McCathie | Queensland Labor | |
Ipswich | Ivor Marsden | Labor | |
Kelvin Grove | Douglas Tooth | Liberal | |
Keppel | Merv Thackeray | Labor | |
Marodian | James Heading | Country | |
Mundingburra | Tom Aikens | NQ Labor | |
Nash | Max Hodges | Country | |
North Toowoomba | Jack Duggan | Labor | |
Rockhampton | Mick Gardner | Queensland Labor | |
Southport | Eric Gaven | Country | |
Toowoomba | Mervyn Anderson | Liberal | |
Townsville | George Keyatta | Labor | |
Seat | Party | Elected member | |
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Albert | Country | Cec Carey | |
Ashgrove | Liberal | Douglas Tooth | |
Aspley | Liberal | Fred Campbell | |
Belmont | Labor | Fred Newton | |
Bowen | Liberal | Peter Delamothe | |
Burke | Labor | Alec Inch | |
Burnett | Country | Claude Wharton | |
Chatsworth | Liberal | Thomas Hiley | |
Greenslopes | Liberal | Keith Hooper | |
Gympie | Country | Max Hodges | |
Hawthorne | Labor | Bill Baxter | |
Ipswich East | Labor | Jim Donald | |
Ipswich West | Labor | Ivor Marsden | |
Nudgee | Labor | Jack Melloy | |
Redcliffe | Independent | Jim Houghton | |
Rockhampton North | Labor | Merv Thackeray | |
Rockhampton South | Liberal | Rex Pilbeam | |
Salisbury | Labor | Doug Sherrington | |
South Coast | Country | Eric Gaven | |
Toowoomba East | Liberal | Mervyn Anderson | |
Toowoomba West | Labor | Jack Duggan | |
Townsville North | Labor | Perc Tucker | |
Townsville South | NQ Labor | Tom Aikens | |
Wavell | Liberal | Alex Dewar | |
Seat | Incumbent member | Party | New member | Party | ||
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Aubigny | Jim Sparkes | Country | Les Diplock | Queensland Labor | ||
Baroona | Bill Power | Queensland Labor | Pat Hanlon | Labor | ||
Condamine | Les Diplock | Queensland Labor | Vic Sullivan | Country | ||
Hinchinbrook | Cecil Jesson | Labor | John Row | Country | ||
Ithaca | Pat Hanlon | Labor | Bob Windsor | Liberal | ||
Sandgate | Thomas Ahearn | Liberal | Harry Dean | Labor | ||
South Brisbane | Vince Gair | Queensland Labor | Col Bennett | Labor | ||
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