Results of the Queensland state election, 1956 (M-Z)

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Queensland state election, 19 May 1956 [1]
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Enrolled voters712,508 [1]
Votes cast662,680 Turnout 93.01–0.79
Informal votes8,006Informal1.21–0.07
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes%SwingSeatsChange
  Labor 335,31151.22–1.9949– 1
  Liberal 164,11625.07+3.778± 0
  Country 126,18319.27+0.5316+ 1
  North Queensland Labor 8,6251.32+0.221± 0
  Communist 1,3320.20–0.450± 0
 Ind. Labor4140.06–0.080± 0
  Independent 18,6932.86–0.261± 0
Total654,674  75 

This is a list of electoral district results for the 1956 Queensland state election for electorates from M to Z.

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

Mackay

Queensland state election, 1956: Mackay
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Fred Graham 4,34458.0-6.5
Liberal David Treacy2,92439.0+3.5
Independent James Rowen2233.0+3.0
Total formal votes7,49198.9-0.4
Informal votes811.1+0.4
Turnout 7,57293.1-2.8
Labor hold Swing -5.0

Mackenzie

Queensland state election, 1956: Mackenzie
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Nev Hewitt 2,17250.5+5.5
Labor Paddy Whyte 2,12649.5-5.5
Total formal votes4,29899.1-0.1
Informal votes410.9+0.1
Turnout 4,33989.5-0.6
Country gain from Labor Swing +5.5

Marodian

Queensland state election, 1956: Marodian
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country James Heading unopposed
Country hold Swing

Maryborough

Queensland state election, 1956: Maryborough
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Horace Davies 6,48866.2+10.2
Country James Dunn3,30633.8+33.8
Total formal votes9,79498.5+0.7
Informal votes1521.5-0.7
Turnout 9,94696.1-1.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

Merthyr

Queensland state election, 1956: Merthyr
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Bill Moore 5,03059.8-4.0
Liberal Sam Ramsden 3,38040.2+4.0
Total formal votes8,41098.6-0.1
Informal votes1201.4+0.1
Turnout 8,53091.0-2.9
Labor hold Swing -4.0

Mirani

Queensland state election, 1956: Mirani
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Ernie Evans 4,75159.2+1.3
Labor Roger Scanlan3,26840.8-1.3
Total formal votes8,01998.8-0.2
Informal votes971.2+0.2
Turnout 8,11693.0-1.8
Country hold Swing +1.3

Mount Coot-tha

Queensland state election, 1956: Mount Coot-tha
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Kenneth Morris 8,93262.4+4.5
Labor Vlad Darveniza5,38637.6-4.5
Total formal votes14,31898.80.0
Informal votes1711.20.0
Turnout 14,48994.1-0.1
Liberal hold Swing +4.5

Mount Gravatt

Queensland state election, 1956: Mount Gravatt
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Felix Dittmer 14,60059.6-3.9
Liberal Eric Handy9,90440.4+5.9
Total formal votes24,50498.8+0.1
Informal votes2861.2-0.1
Turnout 24,79094.2+0.6
Labor hold Swing -4.9

Mourilyan

Queensland state election, 1956: Mourilyan
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Peter Byrne 4,46859.5-7.8
Country Eric Fox2,87238.2+8.6
Communist John Twaddle1742.3-0.8
Total formal votes7,51498.9-0.3
Informal votes861.1+0.3
Turnout 7,60093.4-0.7
Labor hold Swing -8.3

Mulgrave

Queensland state election, 1956: Mulgrave
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Charles English 3,82151.9+0.8
Country Bob Watson 3,54748.1-0.8
Total formal votes7,36898.9+0.3
Informal votes801.1-0.3
Turnout 7,44893.4+0.5
Labor hold Swing +0.8

Mundingburra

Queensland state election, 1956: Mundingburra
PartyCandidateVotes%±
NQ Labor Tom Aikens 7,29677.9+25.4
Labor John Brennan2,07422.1-5.6
Total formal votes9,37098.0-1.3
Informal votes1892.0+1.3
Turnout 9,55993.6-1.2
NQ Labor hold Swing +15.5

Murrumba

Queensland state election, 1956: Murrumba
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country David Nicholson 8,38762.0+4.2
Labor Charles Myers5,13738.0-4.2
Total formal votes13,52498.6-0.6
Informal votes1871.4+0.6
Turnout 13,71193.7+1.2
Country hold Swing +4.2

Nash

Queensland state election, 1956: Nash
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Greg Kehoe 5,75156.0-0.1
Country Max Hodges 4,51644.0+44.0
Total formal votes10,26799.0-0.2
Informal votes1061.0+0.2
Turnout 10,37395.2+1.0
Labor hold Swing -0.1

Norman

Queensland state election, 1956: Norman
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Bill Baxter 6,05256.1-3.1
Liberal George Regan4,73843.9+3.1
Total formal votes10,79098.90.0
Informal votes1201.10.0
Turnout 10,91094.5+0.6
Labor hold Swing -3.1

North Toowoomba

Queensland state election, 1956: North Toowoomba
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Les Wood 5,35259.0-2.8
Liberal Sidney Webb3,71841.0+2.8
Total formal votes9,07098.9-0.2
Informal votes1031.1+0.2
Turnout 9,17392.8-0.9
Labor hold Swing -2.8

Nundah

Queensland state election, 1956: Nundah
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Jim Hadley 6,13655.5-6.4
Liberal William Knox 4,92444.5+6.4
Total formal votes11,06098.5-0.1
Informal votes1661.5+0.1
Turnout 11,22694.8+0.3
Labor hold Swing -6.4

Port Curtis

Queensland state election, 1956: Port Curtis
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Jim Burrows 6,09264.5-3.3
Country Thomas Pulsford3,35335.5+3.3
Total formal votes9,44599.3+0.1
Informal votes680.7-0.1
Turnout 9,51394.6-0.7
Labor hold Swing -3.3

Rockhampton

Queensland state election, 1956: Rockhampton
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Mick Gardner 4,44550.0-11.8
Liberal Rex Pilbeam 4,37949.3+13.7
Independent Tom Kelly660.7-1.9
Total formal votes8,89099.00.0
Informal votes861.00.0
Turnout 8,97695.5+0.4
Labor hold Swing -12.7

Roma

Queensland state election, 1956: Roma
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Alfred Dohring 2,62450.1-1.5
Country William Ewan 2,61049.9+1.5
Total formal votes5,23499.4+0.1
Informal votes320.6-0.1
Turnout 5,26693.5-0.6
Labor hold Swing -1.5

Sandgate

Queensland state election, 1956: Sandgate
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Herbert Robinson 9,56256.6+0.7
Liberal Thomas Ahearn 7,34043.4-0.7
Total formal votes16,90298.8+0.2
Informal votes2101.2-0.2
Turnout 17,11293.3-0.7
Labor hold Swing +0.7

Sherwood

Queensland state election, 1956: Sherwood
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal John Herbert 8,38451.1+0.6
Labor Bart Lourigan7,42445.2-3.5
Independent Margaret Fisher4002.4+2.4
Communist Eugene Marshall2061.3+1.3
Total formal votes16,41497.0-1.8
Informal votes5003.0+1.8
Turnout 16,91493.9-0.3
Liberal hold Swing +2.0

Somerset

Queensland state election, 1956: Somerset
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Alexander Skinner 4,92155.9+4.9
Country Nigel McConnel3,88744.1-4.9
Total formal votes8,80899.3+0.2
Informal votes630.7-0.2
Turnout 8,87194.7+0.8
Labor hold Swing +4.9

South Brisbane

Queensland state election, 1956: South Brisbane
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Vince Gair 4,73658.6-6.0
Independent Frank Roberts 2,73133.8+33.8
Independent Jack Noonan6117.6+7.6
Total formal votes8,07898.50.0
Informal votes1231.50.0
Turnout 8,20191.9+1.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Southport

Queensland state election, 1956: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Eric Gaven 7,82766.0+5.8
Labor William Belford4,02734.0-5.8
Total formal votes11,85499.4+0.1
Informal votes740.6-0.1
Turnout 11,92891.7-1.5
Country hold Swing +5.8

Tablelands

Queensland state election, 1956: Tablelands
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Harold Collins 5,54766.4+0.1
Country Clarence West2,80333.6+2.7
Total formal votes8,35098.9-0.2
Informal votes961.1+0.2
Turnout 8,44690.6-0.8
Labor hold Swing -1.3

Toowong

Queensland state election, 1956: Toowong
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Alan Munro unopposed
Liberal hold Swing

Toowoomba

Queensland state election, 1956: Toowoomba
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Jack Duggan 5,97963.0-3.1
Liberal Edward Hall3,51237.0+3.1
Total formal votes9,49198.7-0.5
Informal votes1211.3+0.5
Turnout 9,61292.7-0.8
Labor hold Swing -3.1

Townsville

Queensland state election, 1956: Townsville
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor George Keyatta 2,98246.9-11.5
Liberal Roy Pope2,30136.2+9.8
Independent Jack Abercrombie91514.4+2.3
Communist Hugh Fay1562.5-0.6
Total formal votes4,35499.1+0.4
Informal votes580.9-0.4
Turnout 4,41291.1-1.3
Labor hold Swing -10.6

Warrego

Queensland state election, 1956: Warrego
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor John Dufficy 3,24867.7-32.3
Country William Mills1,55032.3+32.3
Total formal votes4,79898.4
Informal votes761.6
Turnout 4,87484.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

Warwick

Queensland state election, 1956: Warwick
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Otto Madsen 5,48363.6-1.2
Labor Frank Drew3,13736.4+1.2
Total formal votes8,62099.1-0.1
Informal votes810.9+0.1
Turnout 8,70196.2+0.5
Country hold Swing -1.2

Whitsunday

Queensland state election, 1956: Whitsunday
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Country Lloyd Roberts 4,96259.4+9.9
Labor George Burns3,39540.6-4.2
Total formal votes8,35798.6-0.6
Informal votes1181.4+0.6
Turnout 8,47593.2-0.9
Country hold Swing +7.1

Windsor

Queensland state election, 1956: Windsor
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Tom Rasey 5,45956.3-3.9
Liberal Margaret Gordon4,24043.7+3.9
Total formal votes9,69998.8-0.1
Informal votes1211.2+0.1
Turnout 9,82094.6+0.5
Labor hold Swing -3.9

Wynnum

Queensland state election, 1956: Wynnum
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labor Bill Gunn 9,35465.4-4.1
Liberal Charles Mengel4,95434.6+4.1
Total formal votes14,30898.7-0.2
Informal votes1921.3+0.2
Turnout 14,50093.1-0.8
Labor hold Swing -4.1

Yeronga

Queensland state election, 1956: Yeronga
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Winston Noble 6,97457.9+6.2
Labor Norman Stutz4,87540.5-8.3
Independent Jim Dwyer1911.6+1.6
Total formal votes12,04099.0+0.2
Informal votes1161.0-0.2
Turnout 12,15694.1-1.2
Liberal hold Swing +7.5

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  1. ↑ Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 19 May 1956" . Retrieved 25 January 2010.
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