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1960 Queensland state election

1960 Queensland state election

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All 78 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 40 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Registered	813,584 8.9%
Turnout	752,927 (92.54%) (2.04 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Frank Nicklin Jack Duggan Party Country Labor Leader since 21 May 1941 18 August 1958 Leader's seat Landsborough Toowoomba West Last election 24 seats 20 seats Seats before 23 seats[a] 20 seats Seats won 26 seats 25 seats Seat change 3 5 Popular vote 139,720 296,430 Percentage 19.50% 39.89% Swing 0.49 pp 10.99 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Kenneth Morris Vince Gair Party Liberal Queensland Labor Leader since 17 August 1954 26 April 1957 Leader's seat Mount Coot-tha South Brisbane (lost seat) Last election 18 seats 11 seats Seats before 18 seats 11 seats Seats won 20 seats 4 seats Seat change 2 7 Popular vote 178,567 91,212 Percentage 24.03% 12.28% Swing 0.8 pp 11.12 pp
Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election Frank Nicklin Country Elected Premier Frank Nicklin Country

Elections were held in the Australian stateofQueensland on 28 May 1960 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election followed the enactment of the Electoral Districts Act 1958 which increased the Assembly from 75 to 78 seats and modified the zonal system first established by Labor ahead of the 1950 election.

The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party led by Premier Frank Nicklin, the Liberal Party led by Kenneth Morris, the Labor Party led by Jack Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party led by Vince Gair. The Country and Liberal parties had formed a coalition.

The Country-Liberal coalition won a second term in office at the election, although the Labor Party recovered 5 seats and 11% of its vote from the 1957 election. Still, it was the first time since 1912 that a non-Labor government had been re-elected in Queensland.

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Results[edit]

¹ 831,398 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but two Country seats representing 17,814 enrolled voters were unopposed.

Seats changing party representation[edit]

There was an extensive redistribution across Queensland prior to this election, increasing the amount of seats from 75 to 78. The seat changes are as follows.

Abolished seats[edit]

• Members listed in italics retired at this election.

New seats[edit]

Seats changing hands[edit]

• Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats.

See also[edit]

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1960–1963
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1960
• Nicklin Ministry

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