1963 Queensland state election

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1 June 1963 (1963-06-01)

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All 78 seats in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
40 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

94.29 (

1.75 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Frank Nicklin	Jack Duggan	Paul Hilton
Party	Country–Liberal Coalition	Labor	Queensland Labor
Leader since	21 May 1941	18 August 1958 (1958-08-18)	28 May 1960
Leader's seat	Landsborough	Toowoomba West	Carnarvon (lost seat)
Last election	46 seats, 43.53%	25 seats, 39.89%	4 seats, 12.28%
Seats won	46	26	1
Seat change		1	3
Popular vote	339,806	337,928	55,711
Percentage	44.07%	43.83%	7.23%
Swing	0.54	3.94	5.05

Premier before election

Frank Nicklin
Country/Liberal coalition

Elected Premier

Frank Nicklin
Country/Liberal coalition

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 June 1963 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party led by Premier Frank Nicklin, the Liberal Party led by Alan Munro, the Labor Party led by Jack Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party led by Paul Hilton. The Country and Liberal parties governed in coalition.

This election marked the return of preferential voting after first past the post voting had been used for elections from 1944 to 1960.

The Country-Liberal coalition won a third term in office at the election.

Key dates

Date	Event
19 April 1963	The Parliament was dissolved.^[1]
19 April 1963	Writs were issued by the Administrator to proceed with an election.^[2]
26 April 1963	Close of nominations.
1 June 1963	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
5 July 1963	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
20 August 1960	Parliament resumed for business.^[3]

Results

Queensland state election, 1 June 1963^[4] Legislative Assembly << 1960–1966 >>
Enrolled voters		830,436^[1]
Votes cast		783,034		Turnout	94.29	+1.75
Informal votes		12,036		Informal	1.54	+0.23
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor	337,928	43.83	+3.94	26	+ 1
	Liberal	183,185	23.76	–0.27	20	± 0
	Country	156,621	20.31	+0.81	26	± 0
	Queensland Labor	55,711	7.23	–5.05	1	– 3
	Independent (ex-QLP)	11,810	1.53	+1.53	2	+ 2
	NQ Labor	8,229	1.07		1	± 0
	Ind. Conservative	3,028	0.39		1	+ 1
	Independent	12,052	1.56	–2.60	1	– 1
Total		770,998			78

Popular vote

Labor			43.83%
Liberal			23.76%
Country			20.31%
Queensland Labor			7.23%
NQ Labor			1.07%
Independents			3.49%

Seats

Labor			33.33%
Country			33.33%
Liberal			25.64%
Queensland Labor			1.28%
NQ Labor			1.28%
Independents			5.13%

¹ 839,323 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but the Labor-held seat of Burke was not contested.

Seats changing party representation

This table lists changes in party representation at the 1963 election.

Seat	Incumbent member		New member

Bundaberg	Ted Walsh	Democratic Labor	Ted Walsh	Independent
Carnarvon	Paul Hilton	Democratic Labor	Henry McKechnie	Country
Cook	Bunny Adair	Democratic Labor	Bunny Adair	Independent
Fassifern	Alf Muller	Country	Alf Muller	Independent
Redcliffe	Jim Houghton	Independent	Jim Houghton	Country
Tablelands	Tom Gilmore	Country	Edwin Wallis-Smith	Labor

References

^ "A Proclamation". Queensland Government Gazette. 19 April 1963. p. 212:1713.
^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 19 April 1963. p. 212:1715.
^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 18 July 1963. p. 213:1157.
^ Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 1 June 1963". Retrieved 22 February 2010.