Results of the Western Australian state election, 1968 (Legislative Council)

Western Australian state election, 23 March 1968[1]
Legislative Council

Enrolled voters 208,417[1]
Votes cast 192,342 Turnout 92.29% +0.15%
Informal votes 8,631 Informal 4.49% +0.22%
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 85,674 46.64% 6 10
  Liberal and Country 67,977 37.00% 8 12
  Country 21,228 11.56% 5 8
  Democratic Labor 4,502 2.45% 0 0
  Independent 4,330 2.36% 0 0
Total 183,711     15 30

This is a list of electoral region results for the Western Australian Legislative Council in the 1968 Western Australian state election.

Results by Electoral province

Central

Western Australian state election, 1968: Central Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Leslie Diver unopposed
Country hold Swing

Lower Central

Western Australian state election, 1968: Lower Central Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Sydney Thompson 11,397 72.5
Labor Alfred Jacobs 4,330 27.5
Total formal votes 15,727 96.4
Informal votes 581 3.6
Turnout 16,308 93.6
Country hold Swing

Lower North

Western Australian state election, 1968: Lower North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal and Country George Berry 1,725 49.2
Labor Eric Heenan 1,629 46.5
Democratic Labor Dennis Sands 151 4.3
Total formal votes 3,505 96.7
Informal votes 119 3.3
Turnout 3,624 81.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country George Berry 1,788 51.0
Labor Eric Heenan 1,717 49.0
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing

Lower West

Western Australian state election, 1968: Lower West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal and Country Graham MacKinnon unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1968: Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal and Country Ian Medcalf unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

North

Western Australian state election, 1968: North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Harry Strickland unopposed
Labor hold Swing

North Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1968: North Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Roy Claughton 28,454 50.4
Liberal and Country Herbert R. Robinson 28,040 49.6
Total formal votes 56,494 95.5
Informal votes 2,662 4.5
Turnout 59,156 92.3
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing

North-East Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1968: North-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor William Willesee unopposed
Labor hold Swing

South

Western Australian state election, 1968: South Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Jack Thomson unopposed
Country hold Swing

South-East

Western Australian state election, 1968: South-East Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Claude Stubbs unopposed
Labor hold Swing

South Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1968: South Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Ron Thompson 26,670 59.0
Liberal and Country Albert Gainsford-Brackley 18,544 41.0
Total formal votes 45,214 95.5
Informal votes 2,114 4.5
Turnout 47,328 92.5
Labor hold Swing

South-East Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1968: South-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Jerry Dolan 21,307 47.0
Liberal and Country Nigel Guest 19,668 43.4
Democratic Labor Alan Crofts 4,351 9.6
Total formal votes 45,326 95.8
Informal votes 1,984 4.2
Turnout 47,310 91.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jerry Dolan 23,641 52.2
Liberal and Country Nigel Guest 21,685 47.8
Labor hold Swing

South West

Western Australian state election, 1968: South West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal and Country Francis Willmott unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Upper West

Western Australian state election, 1968: Upper West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Les Logan unopposed
Country hold Swing

West

Western Australian state election, 1968: West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Fred White 9,831 56.3
Labor Owen Hanlon 7,614 43.7
Total formal votes 17,445 93.7
Informal votes 1,171 6.3
Turnout 18,616 94.8
Country hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Details of Australian election results in the Australian Politics and Elections Database". uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/11/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.