Electoral results for the district of Haughton

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

Members for Haughton[]

Member Party Term
  Colin McCathie Labor 1950–1957
  Queensland Labor 1957–1960

Election results[]

Elections in the 1950s[]

1957 Queensland state election: Haughton[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Queensland Labor Colin McCathie 4,164 48.1 +48.1
Labor Vivien Owens 2,393 27.6 -42.8
Country William Clayton 2,105 24.3 +24.3
Total formal votes 8,662 99.3 +0.4
Informal votes 64 0.7 -0.4
Turnout 8,726 95.2 +0.5
Queensland Labor gain from Labor Swing N/A
1956 Queensland state election: Haughton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin McCathie 5,737 70.4 +11.2
Liberal Edwin Pearse 2,415 29.6 +29.6
Total formal votes 8,152 98.9 -0.5
Informal votes 88 1.1 +0.5
Turnout 8,240 94.7 -1.6
Labor hold Swing +1.4
1953 Queensland state election: Haughton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin McCathie 4,617 59.2 +12.3
Country Frederick Purdie 1,661 21.3 +21.3
NQ Labor Ernest O'Brien 1,526 19.6 0.0
Total formal votes 7,804 99.4 +1.4
Informal votes 46 0.6 -1.4
Turnout 7,850 96.3 +3.3
Labor hold Swing +13.7
1950 Queensland state election: Haughton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Colin McCathie 3,492 46.9
Liberal Bill Longeran 2,349 31.5
NQ Labor Ernest O'Brien 1,463 19.6
Communist Gwendoline Phelan 143 1.9
Total formal votes 7,447 98.0
Informal votes 151 2.0
Turnout 7,598 93.0
Labor 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.
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