Draft:Electoral results for the district of Kelvin Grove

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

Members for Kelvin Grove

This section is an excerpt from Electoral district of Kelvin Grove § Members for Kelvin Grove.

	Party	Term
William Lloyd	Labor	May 1923 – May 1929
Richard Hill	CPNP	May 1929 – Jun 1932
Frank Waters	Labor	Jun 1932 – Apr 1938
George Morris	Protestant Labor	Apr 1938 – Mar 1941
Bert Turner	Labor	Mar 1941 – Aug 1957
Douglas Tooth	Liberal	Aug 1957 – May 1960

Tooth went on to represent Ashgrove from May 1960 to December 1974.

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1957 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1957 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Douglas Tooth	4,150	41.6	−4.1
	Labor	Bert Turner	3,754	37.7	−16.6
	Queensland Labor	John Dawson	2,061	20.7	+20.7
Total formal votes			9,965	99.0	−0.2
Informal votes			97	1.0	+0.2
Turnout			10,062	94.9	+1.0
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+6.8

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1956 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Turner	5,355	54.3	−7.6
	Liberal	Douglas Tooth	4,506	45.7	+7.6
Total formal votes			9,861	98.5	+0.1
Informal votes			153	1.5	−0.1
Turnout			10,014	93.9	−0.9
	Labor hold		Swing	−7.6

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1953 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Turner	6,314	61.9	+5.7
	Liberal	Mary Lahey	3,883	38.1	−5.7
Total formal votes			10,197	98.4	−0.6
Informal votes			165	1.6	+0.6
Turnout			10,362	94.8	+0.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1950 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Bert Turner	5,785	56.2
	Liberal	James Gibson	4,515	43.8
Total formal votes			10,300	99.0
Informal votes			106	1.0
Turnout			10,406	94.7
	Labor hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1947 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Turner	6,264	50.5	−2.6
	People's Party	Kenneth Fielding	6,133	49.5	+2.6
Total formal votes			12,397	97.8	−0.9
Informal votes			147	1.3	+0.9
Turnout			12,675	93.0	+2.5
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.6

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1944 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Turner	6,011	53.1	+2.4
	People's Party	Andrew Muir	5,309	46.9	+46.9
Total formal votes			11,320	98.7	0.0
Informal votes			147	1.3	0.0
Turnout			11,467	90.5	−1.8
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1941 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Turner	5,449	50.7	+8.2
	Ind. United Australia	Richard Hill	2,654	24.7	+24.7
	Independent	George Morris	2,646	24.6	+24.6
Total formal votes			10,749	98.7	−0.8
Informal votes			142	1.3	+0.8
Turnout			10,891	92.3	−3.0
	Labor gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1930s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1938 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Frank Waters	4,375	42.5	−27.2
	Protestant Labor	George Morris	3,684	35.8	+35.8
	United Australia	Edgar Ralph	2,229	21.7	−8.6
Total formal votes			10,228	99.5	+1.1
Informal votes			51	0.5	−1.1
Turnout			10,339	95.3	+1.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Protestant Labor	George Morris	4,779	51.6	+51.6
	Labor	Frank Waters	4,479	48.4	−21.3
	Protestant Labor gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1935 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Frank Waters	6,417	69.7
	CPNP	Benjamin White	2,784	30.3
Total formal votes			9,201	98.4
Informal votes			151	1.6
Turnout			9,352	93.8
	Labor hold		Swing

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1932 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Frank Waters	5,305	56.7
	CPNP	Richard Hill	3,647	38.9
	Queensland Party	Andrew Knox	337	3.6
	Communist	Keith Richards	76	0.8
Total formal votes			9,365	99.4
Informal votes			55	0.6
Turnout			9,420	94.1
	Labor gain from CPNP		Swing

Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1920s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1929 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1929 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPNP	Richard Hill	4,421	54.4	+8.7
	Labor	William Lloyd	3,708	45.6	−8.7
Total formal votes			8,129	98.7	−0.5
Informal votes			105	1.3	+0.5
Turnout			8,234
	CPNP gain from Labor		Swing	+8.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1926 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1926 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	William Lloyd	3,882	54.3	−1.3
	CPNP	Jack MacDonald	3,267	45.7	+1.3
Total formal votes			7,149	99.2	−0.3
Informal votes			57	0.8	+0.3
Turnout			7,206	84.8	+4.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−1.3

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1923 Queensland state election § Kelvin Grove.

1923 Queensland state election: Kelvin Grove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	William Lloyd	3,343	55.6
	United	John Tait	2,668	44.4
Total formal votes			6,011	99.5
Informal votes			33	0.5
Turnout			6,044	80.7
	Labor hold		Swing

References

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