This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Wembley Beaches in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Wembley Beaches

MemberPartyTerm
  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

1959 Western Australian state election: Wembley Beaches[1]
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.
1956 Western Australian state election: Wembley Beaches
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
1953 Western Australian state election: Wembley Beaches
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
1950 Western Australian state election: Wembley Beaches
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

  1. ↑ 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.
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