Electoral results for the district of Townsville North

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

Members for Townsville North

Member Party Term
  Perc Tucker Labor 1960–1972

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

1969 Queensland state election: Townsville North[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Perc Tucker 6,977 47.6 −2.6
Liberal Keith Rundle 3,695 25.2 −10.8
Country Owen Griffiths 2,488 17.0 +17.0
Queensland Labor Peter Flanagan 1,495 10.2 −3.7
Total formal votes 14,655 98.6 −0.3
Informal votes 208 1.4 +0.3
Turnout 14,863 88.3 −3.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Perc Tucker 7,436 50.7 −2.0
Liberal Keith Rundle 7,219 49.3 +2.0
Labor hold Swing −2.0
1966 Queensland state election: Townsville North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Perc Tucker 6,862 50.2 +1.8
Liberal Robert Bonnett 4,919 36.0 +7.6
Queensland Labor J.J. McManus 1,895 13.9 −8.7
Total formal votes 13,676 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 154 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 13,830 91.8 −1.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Perc Tucker 7,214 52.7 −0.5
Liberal Robert Bonnett 6,464 47.3 +0.5
Labor hold Swing −0.5
1963 Queensland state election: Townsville North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Perc Tucker 6,196 48.4 +5.0
Liberal Robert Bonnett 3,639 28.4 −5.7
Queensland Labor Kiernan Dorney 2,896 22.6 +9.0
Independent Alfred Reeves 66 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 12,797 98.7 +0.1
Informal votes 163 1.3 −0.1
Turnout 12,960 93.6 +0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Perc Tucker 6,806 53.2
Liberal Robert Bonnett 5,991 46.8
Labor hold Swing N/A
1960 Queensland state election: Townsville North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Perc Tucker 5,262 43.4
Liberal Roy Annable 4,140 34.1
Queensland Labor Ronald Comerford 1,655 13.6
Independent Archibald Hooper 871 7.2
Communist P.F. Bishop 208 1.7
Total formal votes 12,136 98.6
Informal votes 166 1.4
Turnout 12,302 92.9
Labor win (new seat)

References

  1. ^ Hughes, Colin A. (1981). Voting for the Australian state lower houses, 1965-1974. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0909596735.
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