Electoral results for the district of Wembley Beaches
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Wembley Beaches in Western Australian state elections.
Members for Wembley Beaches[]
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Les Nimmo | Liberal Country League | 1950–1956 | |
Frederick Marshall | Labor | 1956–1959 | |
Les Nimmo | Liberal Country League | 1959–1962 |
Election results[]
Elections in the 1950s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Les Nimmo | 7,884 | 52.0 | +14.5 | |
Labor | Frederick Marshall | 5,951 | 39.3 | -10.2 | |
Democratic Labor | William Coyne | 1,327 | 8.8 | +8.8 | |
Total formal votes | 15,162 | 98.6 | +0.9 | ||
Informal votes | 212 | 1.4 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 15,374 | 95.2 | +0.2 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal and Country | Les Nimmo | 59.4 | +11.3 | ||
Labor | Frederick Marshall | 40.6 | -11.3 | ||
Liberal and Country gain from Labor | Swing | +11.3 |
- Two party preferred vote was estimated.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Frederick Marshall | 5,492 | 49.5 | ||
Liberal and Country | Bertha Beecroft | 4,158 | 37.5 | ||
Independent Liberal | Sydney Cheek | 919 | 8.3 | ||
Independent | Les Laracy | 531 | 4.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 11,100 | 97.7 | |||
Informal votes | 255 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 11,355 | 95.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Frederick Marshall | 51.9 | |||
Liberal and Country | Bertha Beecroft | 48.1 | |||
Labor gain from Liberal and Country | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Les Nimmo | 6,204 | 57.7 | -4.8 | |
Labor | Eric Hall | 4,556 | 42.3 | +4.8 | |
Total formal votes | 10,760 | 98.8 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 134 | 1.2 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 10,894 | 95.5 | +3.6 | ||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing | -4.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal and Country | Les Nimmo | 4,830 | 62.5 | ||
Labor | Richard Knox | 2,899 | 37.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 7,729 | 98.4 | |||
Informal votes | 122 | 1.6 | |||
Turnout | 7,851 | 91.9 | |||
Liberal and Country hold | Swing |
References[]
- ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
Categories:
- Western Australian state electoral results by district