Electoral results for the district of Caboolture

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

Members for Caboolture

Member		Party	Term
	Des Frawley	National	1977–1983
	Bill Newton	National	1983–1986
	Ken Hayward	Labor	1986–1992
	Jon Sullivan	Labor	1992–1998
	Bill Feldman	One Nation	1998–1999
		City Country Alliance	1999–2001

Election results

Elections in the 1990s

Queensland state election, 1998: Caboolture[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	10,471	39.14	-8.28
	One Nation	Bill Feldman	8,008	29.93	+29.93
	National	Peter Lacey	6,222	23.26	-20.11
	Independent	Bill Newton	1,331	4.98	+4.98
	Democrats	Liz Oss-Emer	581	2.17	-2.37
	Reform	Brian O'Grady	140	0.52	+0.52
Total formal votes			26,753	98.43	-0.04
Informal votes			426	1.57	+0.04
Turnout			27,179	93.98	+0.29
Two-candidate-preferred result
	One Nation	Bill Feldman	13,245	52.69	+52.69
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	11,894	47.31	-4.96
	One Nation gain from Labor		Swing	+52.69

Queensland state election, 1995: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	11,081	47.42	-4.44
	National	Bill Newton	10,136	43.37	+20.52
	Greens	John Lamb	1,092	4.67	+4.67
	Democrats	Marilyn Drewett	1,060	4.54	+4.54
Total formal votes			23,369	98.47	+0.44
Informal votes			363	1.53	-0.44
Turnout			23,732	93.69	-0.19
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	11,982	52.27	-5.63
	National	Bill Newton	10,941	47.73	+5.63
	Labor hold		Swing	-5.63

Queensland state election, 1992: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	10,736	51.9	+1.0
	National	Bill Newton	4,730	22.8	-0.8
	Liberal	Joy Leishman	4,273	20.6	+0.7
	Independent	Dave Groves	964	4.7	+4.7
Total formal votes			20,703	98.0
Informal votes			415	2.0
Turnout			21,118	93.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jon Sullivan	11,244	57.9	+2.7
	National	Bill Newton	8,177	42.1	-2.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.7

Elections in the 1980s

Queensland state election, 1989: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ken Hayward	13,522	56.8	+3.1
	Liberal	Bob O'Sullivan	4,629	19.4	+19.4
	National	Roy Rogers	2,772	11.6	-34.7
	Independent	James Kessels	2,033	8.5	+8.5
	Call to Australia	Raymond De Gruchy	614	2.6	+2.6
	Independent	Ron Fenton	239	1.0	+1.0
Total formal votes			23,809	96.4	+0.9
Informal votes			882	3.6	-0.9
Turnout			24,691	92.8	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ken Hayward	14,571	61.2	+7.5
	Liberal	Bob O'Sullivan	9,238	38.8	+38.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+7.5

Queensland state election, 1986: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ken Hayward	9,956	53.7
	National	Ron Grant	8,572	46.3
Total formal votes			18,528	95.5
Informal votes			870	4.5
Turnout			19,398	92.0
	Labor gain from National		Swing	+1.0

Queensland state election, 1983: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert Wilson	11,320	44.2	+3.8
	National	Bill Newton	11,222	43.8	+1.6
	Liberal	Graeme Selby	2,459	9.6	-5.6
	Independent	John Bergin	636	2.5	+2.5
Total formal votes			25,637	98.6	+0.5
Informal votes			360	1.4	-0.5
Turnout			25,997	92.7	+3.2
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Bill Newton	13,667	53.3	-2.0
	Labor	Robert Wilson	11,970	46.7	+2.0
	National hold		Swing	-2.0

Queensland state election, 1980: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Des Frawley	8,082	42.2	-16.8
	Labor	John McLoughlin	4,567	23.8	-3.6
	Labor	Frank Hill	3,174	16.6	+16.6
	Liberal	Virginia Day	2,921	15.2	+15.2
	Independent	John Ferguson	422	2.2	+2.2
Total formal votes			19,166	98.1	-0.1
Informal votes			378	1.9	+0.1
Turnout			19,544	89.5	-2.3
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Des Frawley	10,598	55.3	-3.7
	Labor	John McLoughlin	8,568	44.7	+3.7
	National hold		Swing	-3.7

Elections in the 1970s

Queensland state election, 1977: Caboolture
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Des Frawley	8,520	59.0
	Labor	John McLoughlin	3,955	27.4
	Labor	Francis Freemantle	1,973	13.7
Total formal votes			14,448	98.2
Informal votes			270	1.8
Turnout			14,718	91.8
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Des Frawley	8,520	59.0	-7.5
	Labor	John McLoughlin	5,928	41.0	+7.5
	National hold		Swing	-7.5

References

1. http://www.abc.net.au/elections/archive/qld/results/1998/Caboolture.htm