Elections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia on 30 April 1960 to elect 10 of the 30 members of the state's Legislative Council.

Results

Legislative Council

Western Australian state election, 30 April 1960[1]
Legislative Council

Enrolled voters 162,662
Votes cast 65,821 Turnout 44.5 +1.3
Informal votes 498 Informal 0.8 -0.3
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes  % Swing Seats
won		 Seats
held
  Labor 29,830 45.7 +8.0 5 13
  Liberal and Country 23,718 36.3 -14.0 2 9
  Country 10,829 16.6 +7.7 3 8
  Independent 946 1.5 +0.7 0 0
Total 65,323     10 30

Retiring Members

Country

Candidates

Province Held by Labor candidates LCL candidates Country candidates Independent candidates
 
CentralCountryArthur KellyNorm Baxter*
Arthur Latham
Allan McLean
MetropolitanLCLPercy MundayReg Mattiske
MidlandCountryOliver SutherlandLes Logan
NorthLaborBill WilleseeRobert Lukis
North-EastLaborJohn TeahanDavid HoarAlbert Gerick (Ind.)
SouthCountryCharles BoltSydney Thompson*
William Robinson		Joseph Weir (Ind.)
South-EastLaborJim GarriganPercival MillingtonAlfred Walker
South-WestLCLFrank Willmott
SuburbanLaborRuby HutchisonAlfred Rosser
WestLaborRon ThompsonLouis Joseph

Election results

Central

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Arthur Kelly 2,314 35.6
Country Norm Baxter 2,258 34.7
Country Arthur Latham 1,230 18.9
Country Allan McLean 705 10.8
Total formal votes 6,507 98.8
Informal votes 79 1.2
Turnout 6,586 50.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Norm Baxter 3,661 56.3
Liberal and Country Arthur Kelly 2,846 43.7
Country hold Swing

Metropolitan

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Metropolitan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Reg Mattiske 7,728 59.7
Labor Percy Munday 5,215 40.3
Total formal votes 12,943 99.4
Informal votes 71 0.6
Turnout 13,014 32.1
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Midland

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election, Midland
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Les Logan 2,121 75.1
Labor Oliver Sutherland 704 24.9
Total formal votes 2,825 99.4
Informal votes 17 0.6
Turnout 2,842 52.8
Country hold Swing

North

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Willesee 959 65.1
Liberal and Country Robert Lukis 515 34.9
Total formal votes 1,474 99.5
Informal votes 8 0.5
Turnout 1,482 76.8
Labor hold Swing

North-East

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: North-East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Teahan 1,682 57.7
Liberal and Country David Hoar 927 31.8
Independent Albert Gerick 304 10.4
Total formal votes 2,913 99.1
Informal votes 25 0.9
Turnout 2,938 60.8
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Charles Bolt 1,928 31.4
Country William Robinson 1,903 31.0
Country Sydney Thompson 1,663 27.1
Independent Joseph Weir 642 10.5
Total formal votes 6,136 98.9
Informal votes 66 1.1
Turnout 6,202 55.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Sydney Thompson 3,724 60.7
Liberal and Country Charles Bolt 2,412 39.3
Country hold SwingN/A

South-East

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: South-East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jim Garrigan 2,401 55.5
Liberal and Country Percival Millington 978 22.6
Country Alfred Walker 949 21.9
Total formal votes 4,328 99.1
Informal votes 39 0.9
Turnout 4,367 61.8
Labor hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South-West

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: South-West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Francis Drake Willmott unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Suburban

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: Suburban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ruby Hutchison 9,776 57.5
Liberal and Country Alfred Rosser 7,241 42.5
Total formal votes 17,017 99.3
Informal votes 116 0.7
Turnout 17,133 42.9
Labor hold Swing

West

1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election: West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ron Thompson 6,779 60.4
Liberal and Country Louis Joseph 4,401 39.4
Total formal votes 11,180 99.3
Informal votes 77 0.7
Turnout 11,257 47.2
Labor hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia: membership register, electoral law and statistics 1890-1989. Perth, WA: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0730936414.
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