Electoral results for the district of Mackenzie

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

Members for Mackenzie

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Member Party Term
  Paddy Whyte Labor 1950–1956
  Neville Hewitt Country 1956–1972

Election results

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Elections in the 1960s

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1969 Queensland state election: Mackenzie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Neville Hewitt 4,777 61.3 −38.7
Labor Harold Kuhn 3,009 38.7 +38.7
Total formal votes 7,786 98.9
Informal votes 89 1.1
Turnout 7,875 90.1
Country hold Swing −38.7
1966 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Neville Hewitt unopposed
Country hold Swing
1963 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Nev Hewitt 4,305 62.7 −2.1
Labor Patrick O'Brien 2,555 37.3 +2.1
Total formal votes 6,860 98.7 −0.1
Informal votes 87 1.3 +0.1
Turnout 6,947 94.6 +1.7
Country hold Swing −2.1
1960 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Nev Hewitt 4,329 64.8
Labor Charles White 2,348 35.2
Total formal votes 6,677 98.8
Informal votes 83 1.2
Turnout 6,760 92.9
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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1957 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Nev Hewitt 2,523 55.1 +4.6
Labor William James 1,140 24.9 −24.6
Queensland Labor J T Cook 920 20.1 +20.1
Total formal votes 4,583 99.2 +0.1
Informal votes 35 0.8 −0.1
Turnout 4,618 93.5 +4.0
Country hold Swing +18.4
1956 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Nev Hewitt 2,172 50.5 +5.5
Labor Paddy Whyte 2,126 49.5 −5.5
Total formal votes 4,298 99.1 −0.1
Informal votes 41 0.9 +0.1
Turnout 4,339 89.5 −0.6
Country gain from Labor Swing +5.5
1953 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Paddy Whyte 2,420 55.0 +3.7
Country James Lawrence 1,978 45.0 −3.7
Total formal votes 4,398 99.2 +0.5
Informal votes 36 0.8 −0.5
Turnout 4,434 90.1 +1.1
Labor hold Swing +3.7
1950 Queensland state election: Mackenzie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Paddy Whyte 2,184 51.3
Country William Holmes 2,076 48.7
Total formal votes 4,260 98.7
Informal votes 54 1.3
Turnout 4,314 89.0
Labor hold Swing

References

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  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.