Election Name: | 1953 Queensland state election |
Country: | Queensland |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1950 Queensland state election |
Previous Year: | 1950 |
Next Election: | 1956 Queensland state election |
Next Year: | 1956 |
Seats For Election: | All 75 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 38 Assembly seats were needed for a majority |
Turnout: | 93.80 (1.29 pp) |
Leader1: | Vince Gair |
Party1: | Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) |
Leaders Seat1: | South Brisbane |
Popular Vote1: | 323,882 |
Percentage1: | 53.21% |
Swing1: | 6.34 |
Last Election1: | 42 seats |
Seats1: | 50 |
Seat Change1: | 8 |
Leader2: | Frank Nicklin |
Leader Since2: | 21 May 1941 |
Party2: | Country/Liberal Coalition |
Leaders Seat2: | Landsborough |
Popular Vote2: | 243,757 |
Percentage2: | 40.05% |
Swing2: | 9.11 |
Last Election2: | 31 seats |
Seats2: | 23 |
Seat Change2: | 8 |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Vince Gair |
Before Party: | Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) |
After Election: | Vince Gair |
After Party: | Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) |
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 March 1953 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its eighth continuous term in office since the 1932 election. It was the first electoral test for Vince Gair, who had become Premier of Queensland 14 months earlier after the death of Ned Hanlon.
Date | Event | |
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6 February 1953 | The Parliament was dissolved. | |
6 February 1953 | Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election. | |
13 February 1953 | Close of nominations. | |
7 March 1953 | Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.[1] | |
16 March 1953 | The Gair Ministry was reconstituted. | |
5 June 1953 | The writ was returned and the results formally declared. | |
4 August 1953 | Parliament was summoned for business. |
See also: Results of the Queensland state election, 1953.
The result was a considerable swing to the Labor government.
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737,579 electors were enrolled to vote at the election; however, 11 seats (14.7% of the total) were uncontested, eight of them Labor-held seats representing 49,466 enrolled voters, as well as two Country seats representing 20,053 voters and one Liberal seat representing 10,711 voters.
This table lists changes in party representation at the 1953 election.
Seat | Incumbent member | Party | New member | Party | ||||
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Condamine | Eric Allpass | Country | Les Diplock | Labor | ||||
Cook | Carlisle Wordsworth | Country | Bunny Adair | Labor | ||||
Mulgrave | Bob Watson | Country | Charles English | Labor | ||||
Norman | Louis Luckins | Liberal | Bill Baxter | Labor | ||||
Roma | William Ewan | Country | Alfred Dohring | Labor | ||||
Sandgate | Eric Decker | Liberal | Herbert Robinson | Labor | ||||
Somerset | Duncan MacDonald | Country | Alexander Skinner | Labor | ||||