Electoral results for the district of Bowen

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

Members for Bowen

First incarnation (1873–1950)
MemberPartyTerm
  Thomas Henry FitzGerald 1873–1875
  Francis Amhurst 1875–1877
  Henry Beor Conservative 1877–1880
  Pope Alexander Cooper Conservative 1881–1883
  Charles Chubb Conservative 1883–1888
  Robert Smith Conservative 1888–1890
  Ministerial 1890–1902
  Francis Kenna Labor 1902–1907
  Kidston 1907–1909
  Myles Ferricks Labor 1909–1912
  Edward Caine Ministerialist 1912–1915
  Charles Collins Labor 1915–1936
  Ernest Riordan Labor 1936–1944
  Fred Paterson Communist 1944–1950
Second incarnation (1960-1971)
  Peter Delamothe Liberal 1960–1971
Third incarnation (1986-1992)
  Ken Smyth Labor 1986–1992

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

Queensland state election, 1989: Bowen[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ken Smyth 7,386 68.1 +11.1
National Trevor Maltby 2,598 23.9 -2.4
Independent Josephine Cronin 869 8.0 +8.0
Total formal votes 10,853 97.6 -0.7
Informal votes 262 2.4 +0.7
Turnout 11,115 90.1 -1.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Ken Smyth 70.6 +8.9
National Trevor Maltby 29.4 -8.9
Labor hold Swing +8.9
Queensland state election, 1986: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ken Smyth 6,274 57.0
National Jim Turner 2,892 26.3
Liberal Jeanette Hunter 1,836 16.7
Total formal votes 11,002 98.3
Informal votes 195 1.7
Turnout 11,197 92.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Ken Smyth 6,869 62.5 +4.9
National Jim Turner 4,127 37.5 -4.9
Labor hold Swing +4.9

Elections in the 1960s

Queensland state election, 1969: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,814 51.4 +0.2
Labor Leonard Bidgood 3,599 48.6 +5.2
Total formal votes 7,413 98.6 -0.1
Informal votes 105 1.4 +0.1
Turnout 7,518 93.9 -1.5
Liberal hold Swing -4.1
Queensland state election, 1966: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,632 51.2 +4.7
Labor John Gralton 3,080 43.4 -3.4
Democratic Labor James McCane 382 5.4 -1.3
Total formal votes 7,094 98.7 +0.4
Informal votes 93 1.3 -0.4
Turnout 7,187 95.4 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,943 55.6 +3.7
Labor John Gralton 3,151 44.4 -3.7
Liberal hold Swing +3.7
Queensland state election, 1963: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Gralton 3,252 46.8 +7.4
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,230 46.5 +0.4
Democratic Labor Jim McCane 462 6.7 -2.8
Total formal votes 6,944 98.3 -0.1
Informal votes 120 1.7 +0.1
Turnout 7,064 95.4 +1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,607 51.9
Labor John Gralton 3,337 48.1
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Queensland state election, 1960: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Delamothe 3,287 46.0
Labor William Klaka 2,813 39.4
Queensland Labor James Berryman 679 9.5
Communist James Nisbet 358 5.0
Total formal votes 7,137 98.4
Informal votes 115 1.6
Turnout 7,252 94.1
Liberal win (new division)

Elections in the 1940s

Queensland state election, 1947: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Communist Fred Paterson 3,331 39.3 -5.1
Labor John Barry 2,584 30.5 -8.1
Country George McLean 2,551 30.1 +13.2
Total formal votes 8,466 99.3 +0.3
Informal votes 57 0.7 -0.3
Turnout 8,523 93.8 +6.1
Communist hold Swing +2.8
Queensland state election, 1944: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Communist Fred Paterson 3,434 44.4 -2.9
Labor Ernest Riordan 2,988 38.6 -14.1
Country Bill Hancock 1,310 16.9 +16.9
Total formal votes 7,732 99.0 +2.4
Informal votes 80 1.0 -2.4
Turnout 7,812 87.7 -3.3
Communist gain from Labor Swing +6.2
Queensland state election, 1941: Bowen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ernest Riordan 4,152 52.7 +13.5
Communist Fred Paterson 3,733 47.3 +18.0
Total formal votes 7,885 96.6 -2.6
Informal votes 275 3.4 +2.6
Turnout 8,160 91.0 -3.6
Labor hold Swing -4.5

References

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