Electoral results for the district of Townsville East

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

Members for Townsville East

Member		Party	Term
	Geoff Smith	Labor	1986–1992

1989 Queensland state election: Townsville East^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Geoff Smith	11,009	61.8	+8.8
	National	Dickway Goon Chew	4,487	25.2	-5.8
	Liberal	Susanne Luckel	2,313	13.0	-2.9
Total formal votes			17,809	97.0	-1.1
Informal votes			555	3.0	+1.1
Turnout			18,364	89.0	+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Geoff Smith	11,451	64.3	+6.8
	National	Dickway Goon Chew	6,358	35.7	-6.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+6.8

1986 Queensland state election: Townsville East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Geoff Smith	8,936	53.0
	National	Dickway Goon Chew	5,234	31.1
	Liberal	Vincent Nielsen	2,686	15.9
Total formal votes			16,856	98.1
Informal votes			332	1.9
Turnout			17,188	88.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Geoff Smith	9,692	57.5	-2.4
	National	Dickway Goon Chew	7,164	42.5	+2.4
	Labor hold		Swing	-2.4

↑ Green, Antony. "1989 Results for Townsville East". Queensland Election Archive. ABC. Retrieved 7 August 2021.

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