Electoral results for the district of Darlington (Queensland)

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

Members for Darlington

Member		Party	Term
	Tom Plunkett	Country	1950–1957
	Leslie Harrison	Country	1957–1960

1957 Queensland state election: Darlington^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Leslie Harrison	6,589	60.1	-7.8
	Labor	Charles Knoll	2,227	20.3	-11.8
	Independent	Michael Smith	1,874	17.1	+17.1
	Independent	Henry Longfield	273	2.5	+2.5
Total formal votes			10,963	98.8	+0.1
Informal votes			128	1.2	-0.1
Turnout			11,091	93.9	+2.5
	Country hold		Swing	+6.8

1956 Queensland state election: Darlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Tom Plunkett	6,823	67.9	+1.3
	Labor	Charles Knoll	3,223	32.1	-1.3
Total formal votes			10,046	98.7	+1.8
Informal votes			130	1.3	-1.8
Turnout			10,176	91.4	-1.9
	Country hold		Swing	+1.3

1953 Queensland state election: Darlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Tom Plunkett	6,507	66.6	-33.4
	Labor	Charles Knoll	2,998	30.7	+30.7
	Communist	William Yarrow	270	2.8	+2.8
Total formal votes			9,775	96.9
Informal votes			314	3.1
Turnout			10,089	93.3
	Country hold		Swing	N/A

1950 Queensland state election: Darlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Tom Plunkett	unopposed
	Country hold		Swing

↑ 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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