Electoral results for the district of Dalby

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Dalby in Queensland state elections.

Members for Dalby

Member		Party	Term
	Joshua Peter Bell	Unaligned	1873–1878
	George Simpson	Unaligned	1878–1882
	John Jessop	Unaligned	1882–1893
	Joshua Thomas Bell	Ministerialist	1893–1911
	William Vowles	Ministerialist/Liberal/National/Country	1911–1926
	Wilfred Adams Russell	PPC/Country	1926–1932
	Jim Sparkes	Country	1932–1935
	Godfrey Morgan	Country	1935–1938
	Aubrey Slessar	Labor	1938–1947
	Charles Russell	Country	1947–1949

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Queensland state election: Dalby ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Charles Russell	5,736	59.1	+10.6
	Labor	George Wilkes	3,977	40.9	−10.6
Total formal votes			9,713	98.8	+4.4
Informal votes			122	1.2	−4.4
Turnout			9,835	89.3	+0.8
	Country gain from Labor		Swing	+10.6

1944 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Aubrey Slessar	4,688	51.5	−4.5
	Country	Charles Russell	4,409	48.5	+4.5
Total formal votes			9,097	94.4	−4.8
Informal votes			537	5.6	+4.8
Turnout			9,634	88.5	+1.4
	Labor hold		Swing	-4.5

1941 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Aubrey Slessar	5,434	56.0	+5.7
	Country	Godfrey Morgan	4,262	44.0	−5.7
Total formal votes			9,696	99.2	+0.3
Informal votes			74	0.8	−0.3
Turnout			9,770	87.1	−4.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.7

Elections in the 1930s

1938 Queensland state election: Maree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	William King	5,201	53.3	−16.6
	United Australia	William Carter	3,830	39.2	+9.1
	Social Credit	Charles Martin	727	7.5	+7.5
Total formal votes			9,758	98.7	+1.4
Informal votes			128	1.3	−1.4
Turnout			9,886	94.4	+0.6
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1935 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPNP	Godfrey Morgan	4,373	51.8
	Labor	George Wilkes	4,061	48.2
Total formal votes			8,434	99.0
Informal votes			84	1.0
Turnout			8,518	93.1
	CPNP hold		Swing

1932 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPNP	Jim Sparkes	3,904	53.8
	Labor	Adolphus Baker	3,349	46.2
Total formal votes			7,253	99.2
Informal votes			56	0.8
Turnout			7,309	93.3
	CPNP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPNP	Wilfred Russell	3,511	65.9	+38.3
	Labor	Clive Curtis	1,816	34.1	+3.0
Total formal votes			5,327
Informal votes
Turnout
	CPNP gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

1926 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Primary Producers	Wilfred Russell	2,347	41.4	+41.4
	Labor	Harold Francis	1,762	31.1	−6.6
	CPNP	William Vowles	1,563	27.6	−21.2
Total formal votes			5,672	98.9	+1.0
Informal votes			64	1.1	−1.0
Turnout			5,736	91.2	+6.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Primary Producers	Wilfred Russell	3,529	65.7	+65.7
	Labor	Harold Francis	1,842	34.3	+7.2
	Primary Producers gain from CPNP		Swing	N/A

1923 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	William Vowles	2,679	48.8	−13.7
	Labor	Hugh McAnally	2,069	37.7	+0.2
	Independent Country	N C Hooper	743	13.5	+13.5
Total formal votes			5,491	97.9	−1.4
Informal votes			120	2.1	+1.4
Turnout			5,611	84.7	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Country	William Vowles	3,086	58.1	−4.4
	Labor	Hugh McAnally	2,221	41.9	+4.4
	Country hold		Swing	-4.4

1920 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	William Vowles	3,005	62.5	+62.5
	Labor	James Connolly	1,804	37.5	−5.6
Total formal votes			4,849	99.3	−0.1
Informal votes			35	0.7	+0.1
Turnout			4,884	83.9	+4.1
	Country gain from National		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1918 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	William Vowles	2,686	56.9	+23.3
	Labor	Austin McKeon	2,033	43.1	+0.6
Total formal votes			4,719	99.4	+1.5
Informal votes			28	0.6	−1.5
Turnout			4,747	79.8	−4.7
	National hold		Swing	+3.7

1915 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Connolly	1,788	42.5	−0.4
	Liberal	William Vowles	1,414	33.6	−23.5
	Farmers' Union	Frederick Bradhurst	1,004	23.9	+23.9
Total formal votes			4,206	97.9	−1.6
Informal votes			89	2.1	+1.6
Turnout			4,295	84.5	+9.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	William Vowles	2,165	53.2	−3.9
	Labor	John Connolly	1,902	46.8	+3.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-3.9

1912 Queensland state election: Dalby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Vowles	1,992	57.1
	Labor	Robert Turnbull	1,497	42.9
Total formal votes			3,489	99.5
Informal votes			19	0.5
Turnout			3,508	75.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

References

1. Hughes, Colin A. (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN   0708103014.