Results of the Queensland state election, 1944 (A-K)

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Queensland state election, 15 April 1944 [1]
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Enrolled voters585,727 [1]
Votes cast512,767 Turnout 87.54–2.75
Informal votes9,352Informal1.82+0.02
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes%SwingSeatsChange
  Labor 224,88844.67–6.7437– 4
  People's Party 124,43724.72+9.117+ 3
  Country 88,60817.60–3.2912– 2
  Communist 12,4672.48–0.611+ 1
  Independent Labor 12,1542.41+0.671+ 1
  Frank Barnes Labor 9,9701.98+0.932+ 1
  Hermit Park Labor 5,5211.10+1.101+ 1
  Independent Country 1,6540.33–0.450± 0
  Independent 23,7164.71+1.291– 1
Total503,415  62 

This is a list of electoral district results for the 1944 Queensland state election for electorates from A to K.

This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.

Results by electoral district

Albert

Queensland state election, 1944: Albert [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Tom Plunkett 4,84250.8-11.6
Labor John Rosser3,03731.9-5.7
Independent Country Edward Coghlan1,65417.3+17.3
Total formal votes9,53399.1+0.8
Informal votes840.9-0.8
Turnout 9,61783.8-3.5
Country hold Swing -2.9

Aubigny

Queensland state election, 1944: Aubigny
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Jim Sparkes 5,62068.2+4.9
Labor William Harth2,61431.8-4.9
Total formal votes8,23499.2-0.2
Informal votes670.8+0.2
Turnout 8,30188.6-4.4
Country hold Swing +4.9

Barcoo

Queensland state election, 1944: Barcoo
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Ned Davis unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Baroona

Queensland state election, 1944: Baroona
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Bill Power 5,41555.3-4.6
People's Party Richard Cooper4,37044.7+4.6
Total formal votes9,78598.5+0.9
Informal votes1471.5-0.9
Turnout 9,93288.0-1.6
Labor hold Swing -4.6

Bowen

Queensland state election, 1944: Bowen
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Communist Fred Paterson 3,43444.4-2.9
Labor Ernest Riordan 2,98838.6-14.1
Country Bill Hancock1,31016.9+16.9
Total formal votes7,73299.0+2.4
Informal votes801.0-2.4
Turnout 7,81287.7-3.3
Communist gain from Labor Swing +6.2

Bremer

Queensland state election, 1944: Bremer
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Frank Cooper unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Brisbane

Queensland state election, 1944: Brisbane
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Johnno Mann 4,77458.4+1.0
People's Party George Regan3,39641.6+7.1
Total formal votes8,17097.60.0
Informal votes2002.40.0
Turnout 8,37085.4-1.4
Labor hold Swing -4.0

Bulimba

Queensland state election, 1944: Bulimba
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Independent Labor George Marriott 4,57741.8+41.8
People's Party Geoffrey Ward3,68033.6+3.7
Labor Bob Gardner 2,68324.5-45.6
Total formal votes10,94096.0-1.4
Informal votes4594.0+1.4
Turnout 11,39994.8+1.1
Independent Labor gain from Labor Swing N/A

Bundaberg

Queensland state election, 1944: Bundaberg
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Frank Barnes Labor Frank Barnes 4,18040.0-11.1
Labor Bernard McLean 3,49533.4-15.5
People's Party Tom McCracken2,21821.2+21.2
Independent Labor Arthur Howe4324.1+4.1
Independent Alfred Maughan1361.3+1.3
Total formal votes10,46198.3+0.5
Informal votes1821.7-0.5
Turnout 10,64388.3-5.1
Frank Barnes Labor hold Swing +3.4

Buranda

Queensland state election, 1944: Buranda
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Ted Hanson 5,56950.7-6.2
People's Party Robert Roberts5,41749.3+6.2
Total formal votes10,98698.9+1.0
Informal votes1251.1-1.0
Turnout 11,11188.9-2.6
Labor hold Swing -6.2

Cairns

Queensland state election, 1944: Cairns
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Frank Barnes Labor Lou Barnes 5,79065.6+65.6
Labor Daniel Crowley3,02934.4-21.0
Total formal votes8,81998.8+0.3
Informal votes1091.2-0.3
Turnout 8,92879.6-7.4
Frank Barnes Labor hold Swing N/A

Carnarvon

Queensland state election, 1944: Carnarvon
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Paul Hilton 4,21156.6-43.4
Country Harold Phillips3,23543.4+43.4
Total formal votes7,44695.1
Informal votes3864.9
Turnout 7,83288.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Carpentaria

Queensland state election, 1944: Carpentaria
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Norm Smith 2,96957.5+5.7
Independent Labor James Boyd1,83435.5-12.7
Independent John Carson2084.0+4.0
Independent Bernard McInerney1553.0+3.0
Total formal votes5,16698.7+0.1
Informal votes671.3-0.1
Turnout 5,23377.0+4.3
Labor hold Swing +10.0

Charters Towers

Queensland state election, 1944: Charters Towers
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Arthur Jones 4,24167.5+4.3
Independent Labor Syd Williams2,34432.5-4.3
Total formal votes6,28598.2-0.4
Informal votes1151.8+0.4
Turnout 6,40081.8-1.1
Labor hold Swing +4.3

Cook

Queensland state election, 1944: Cook
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Harold Collins 3,84554.6-2.4
People's Party Norman Fitchett1,99928.4+28.4
Independent Labor Jack Meehan1,20517.1+17.1
Total formal votes7,04998.3+2.9
Informal votes1191.7-2.9
Turnout 7,16882.0-7.0
Labor hold Swing +8.8

Cooroora

Queensland state election, 1944: Cooroora
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Harry Walker 5,48662.5-37.5
Labor Robert Spencer3,28937.5+37.5
Total formal votes8,77599.1
Informal votes790.9
Turnout 8,85489.0
Country hold Swing N/A

Cunningham

Queensland state election, 1944: Cunningham
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Malcolm McIntyre 5,54267.2+47.3
Labor John Hilton2,70532.8+0.1
Total formal votes8,24797.7-1.5
Informal votes1922.3+1.5
Turnout 8,43992.10.0
Country gain from Independent Swing N/A

Dalby

Queensland state election, 1944: Dalby
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Aubrey Slessar 4,68851.5-4.5
Country Charles Russell 4,40948.5+4.5
Total formal votes9,09794.4-4.8
Informal votes5375.6+4.8
Turnout 9,63488.5+1.4
Labor hold Swing -4.5

East Toowoomba

Queensland state election, 1944: East Toowoomba
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Herbert Yeates 4,85456.1+1.9
Labor Jim Thorpe3,56041.2-4.6
Independent K N Kunkel2302.7+2.7
Total formal votes8,64498.7+0.6
Informal votes1151.3-0.6
Turnout 8,75984.7-8.8
Country hold Swing +3.5

Enoggera

Queensland state election, 1944: Enoggera
PartyCandidateVotes%±
People's Party Kenneth Morris 5,43645.3+2.2
Independent Labor George Taylor 3,92732.7+32.7
Labor James Fraser2,64722.0-28.5
Total formal votes12,01097.8-0.5
Informal votes2672.2+0.5
Turnout 12,27793.40.0
People's Party gain from Labor Swing N/A

Fassifern

Queensland state election, 1944: Fassifern
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Alf Muller 5,98464.7-0.7
Labor Roy Richards2,63329.6-5.7
Independent Cyril Brosnan2753.1+3.1
Independent George Masen1661.9+1.9
Total formal votes8,89195.8-2.0
Informal votes3874.2+2.0
Turnout 9,27895.3+2.3
Country hold Swing +4.1

Fitzroy

Queensland state election, 1944: Fitzroy
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Jim Clark 4,83251.4-48.6
People's Party Harry Weir4,56348.6+48.6
Total formal votes9,39599.0
Informal votes931.0
Turnout 9,48884.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Fortitude Valley

Queensland state election, 1944: Fortitude Valley
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Samuel Brassington 5,58260.5+4.0
People's Party Annie Tipper3,64639.5-4.0
Total formal votes9,22898.6+0.6
Informal votes1351.4-0.6
Turnout 9,36388.2-2.2
Labor hold Swing +4.0

Gregory

Queensland state election, 1944: Gregory
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor George Devries unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Gympie

Queensland state election, 1944: Gympie
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Thomas Dunstan 3,19747.8-4.6
People's Party Niels Damm2,92343.7+13.7
Independent William Ebrington5728.5+8.5
Total formal votes6,69299.50.0
Informal votes330.50.0
Turnout 6,72588.0-5.3
Labor hold Swing -11.4

Hamilton

Queensland state election, 1944: Hamilton
PartyCandidateVotes%±
People's Party John Chandler 7,91675.2+39.0
Labor John Dixon2,61424.8+24.8
Total formal votes10,53098.8+0.8
Informal votes1251.2-0.8
Turnout 10,65588.4-3.1
People's Party hold Swing N/A

Herbert

Queensland state election, 1944: Herbert
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Stephen Theodore 4,33157.1+0.9
Communist Les Sullivan3,26142.9+42.9
Total formal votes7,59296.9-1.3
Informal votes1661.8+1.3
Turnout 7,83486.0-5.7
Labor hold Swing N/A

Ipswich

Queensland state election, 1944: Ipswich
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor David Gledson unopposed
Labor hold Swing

Isis

Queensland state election, 1944: Isis
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country William Brand 4,90164.5+5.4
Labor Frank Eastaughffe 2,69435.5-5.4
Total formal votes7,59596.0-1.8
Informal votes3184.0+1.8
Turnout 7,91392.8-2.7
Country hold Swing +5.4

Ithaca

Queensland state election, 1944: Ithaca
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Ned Hanlon 6,30554.0-2.9
People's Party Reg Groom 5,16244.2+44.2
Independent Jack McCallum2081.8+1.8
Total formal votes11,67598.9+0.3
Informal votes1321.1-0.3
Turnout 11,80791.7-1.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Kelvin Grove

Queensland state election, 1944: Kelvin Grove
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Bert Turner 6,01153.1+2.4
People's Party Andrew Muir5,30946.9+46.9
Total formal votes11,32098.70.0
Informal votes1471.30.0
Turnout 11,46790.5-1.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

Kennedy

Queensland state election, 1944: Kennedy
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Cecil Jesson 4,29750.7-7.0
Communist John Clubley2,22026.2+15.3
People's Party Aubrey Jurd1,95423.1+23.1
Total formal votes8,47197.9-0.3
Informal votes1802.1+0.3
Turnout 8,65182.3-6.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Keppel

Queensland state election, 1944: Keppel
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Walter Ingram 3,18440.1+1.6
Country Frank Saunders2,46631.0-22.0
Independent John Harding2,29228.9+28.9
Total formal votes7,94295.0-3.9
Informal votes4205.0+3.9
Turnout 8,36290.1+0.1
Labor gain from Country Swing +14.3

Kurilpa

Queensland state election, 1944: Kurilpa
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Kerry Copley 5,50453.5+5.1
People's Party Norman Brandon4,78046.50.0
Total formal votes10,28498.7+0.3
Informal votes1351.3-0.3
Turnout 10,41985.0-0.5
Labor hold Swing +2.5

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 15 April 1944" . Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  2. ↑ 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   0-7081-0301-4.
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