AuspolDB: Elections

1961 Federal Election

Electoral System	FPV
Government Type	Majority
Outgoing Government Party	Liberal
Incoming Government Party	Liberal
Government Seats	62
Nongovernment Seats	62
Majority The difference between the number of Government seats and non-government seats.	N/A
Date	09/12/1961
House Composition	62 Australian Labor Party 45 Liberal 17 The Nationals/Country Party

Candidate	Party	Electorate	Votes	Swing	Status
Frank Mcguren	Australian Labor Party	Cowper	17567	9.70	Incoming
George Gray	Australian Labor Party	Capricornia	18517	8.80	Incoming
Harry Webb	Australian Labor Party	Stirling	25262	0.80	Incoming
Jack Comber	Australian Labor Party	Bowman	21393	8.50	Incoming
John O`Donnell	Australian Labor Party	Moreton	25123	11.80	Incoming
Brendan Hansen	Australian Labor Party	Wide Bay	21808	12.40	Incoming
Neil Mcneill	Liberal	Canning	13931	0.00	Incoming
James Longstaff	Australian Labor Party	McMillan	15907	-2.40	Incoming
Harry Jensen	Australian Labor Party	Bennelong	24389	7.50	Incoming
Wilfred Coutts	Australian Labor Party	Griffith	21392	9.10	Incoming
John Cockle	Liberal	Warringah	22489	-19.50	Incoming
Keith Ewart	Australian Labor Party	Bruce	34741	2.40	Incoming
Fred Collard	Australian Labor Party	Kalgoorlie	14231	3.60	Incoming
Sydney Einfeld	Australian Labor Party	Phillip	19094	4.10	Incoming
Don Cameron	Australian Labor Party	Lilley	20186	12.30	Incoming
John Armitage	Australian Labor Party	Mitchell	36363	11.00	Incoming
Arthur Fuller	Australian Labor Party	Hume	18858	2.30	Incoming
Ted Harding	Australian Labor Party	Herbert	20839	7.50	Incoming
Bill Hayden	Australian Labor Party	Oxley	22247	10.80	Incoming
Manfred Cross	Australian Labor Party	Brisbane	18793	6.40	Incoming
Peter Nixon	The Nationals/Country Party	Gippsland	22002	-6.70	Incoming
Reginald O`Brien	Australian Labor Party	Petrie	26468	14.30	Incoming
Neil Armour	Australian Labor Party	Maribyrnong	20022	-0.50	Incoming
Earle Christmas Grafton Page	The Nationals/Country Party	Cowper	15259	-14.90	Outgoing
Alan Hulme	Liberal	Petrie	22516	-8.60	Outgoing
Henry Bandidt	The Nationals/Country Party	Wide Bay	16578	-7.10	Outgoing
Peter Browne	Liberal	Kalgoorlie	12850	6.70	Outgoing
Doug Cash	Liberal	Stirling	19818	-2.70	Outgoing
Donald Cameron	Liberal	Oxley	18272	-12.40	Outgoing
Henry Pearce	Liberal	Capricornia	14357	-10.70	Outgoing
James Killen	Liberal	Moreton	22667	-7.60	Outgoing
Bruce Wight	Liberal	Lilley	18755	-8.10	Outgoing
John Murray	Liberal	Herbert	18296	0.50	Outgoing
Arthur Chresby	Liberal	Griffith	13549	-4.50	Outgoing
Charles Anderson	The Nationals/Country Party	Hume	16682	-5.60	Outgoing
Malcolm Mccolm	Liberal	Bowman	19706	-5.50	Outgoing
Philip Stokes	Liberal	Maribyrnong	14868	-2.10	Outgoing
Alexander Buchanan	Liberal	McMillan	15288	5.40	Outgoing
Billy Snedden	Liberal	Bruce	33882	-4.50	Outgoing
William Aston	Liberal	Phillip	16741	-3.00	Outgoing
Roy Wheeler	Liberal	Mitchell	29887	-11.70	Outgoing
John Cramer	Liberal	Bennelong	22991	-9.30	Outgoing

Name	Jurisdiction	Type
Adelaide	SA	Division
Angas	SA	Division
Australian Capital Territory	ACT	Division
Balaclava	VIC	Division
Ballaarat	VIC	Division
Banks	NSW	Division
Barker	SA	Division
Barton	NSW	Division
Bass	TAS	Division
Batman	VIC	Division
Bendigo	VIC	Division
Bennelong	NSW	Division
Blaxland	NSW	Division
Bonython	SA	Division
Boothby	SA	Division
Bowman	QLD	Division
Braddon	TAS	Division
Bradfield	NSW	Division
Brisbane	QLD	Division
Bruce	VIC	Division
Calare	NSW	Division
Canning	WA	Division
Capricornia	QLD	Division
Chisholm	VIC	Division
Corangamite	VIC	Division
Corio	VIC	Division
Cowper	NSW	Division
Cunningham	NSW	Division
Curtin	WA	Division
Dalley	NSW	Division
Darebin	VIC	Division
Darling	NSW	Division
Darling Downs	QLD	Division
Dawson	QLD	Division
Deakin	VIC	Division
Denison	TAS	Division
East Sydney	NSW	Division
Eden-Monaro	NSW	Division
Evans	NSW	Division
Farrer	NSW	Division
Fawkner	VIC	Division
Fisher	QLD	Division
Flinders	VIC	Division
Forrest	WA	Division
Franklin	TAS	Division
Fremantle	WA	Division
Gellibrand	VIC	Division
Gippsland	VIC	Division
Grayndler	NSW	Division
Grey	SA	Division
Griffith	QLD	Division
Gwydir	NSW	Division
Henty	VIC	Division
Herbert	QLD	Division
Higgins	VIC	Division
Higinbotham	VIC	Division
Hindmarsh	SA	Division
Hughes	NSW	Division
Hume	NSW	Division
Hunter	NSW	Division
Indi	VIC	Division
Isaacs	VIC	Division
Kalgoorlie	WA	Division
Kennedy	QLD	Division
Kingsford Smith	NSW	Division
Kingston	SA	Division
Kooyong	VIC	Division
La Trobe	VIC	Division
Lalor	VIC	Division
Lang	NSW	Division
Lawson	NSW	Division
Leichhardt	QLD	Division
Lilley	QLD	Division
Lowe	NSW	Division
Lyne	NSW	Division
Macarthur	NSW	Division
Mackellar	NSW	Division
Macquarie	NSW	Division
Mallee	VIC	Division
Maranoa	QLD	Division
Maribyrnong	VIC	Division
McMillan	VIC	Division
McPherson	QLD	Division
Melbourne	VIC	Division
Melbourne Ports	VIC	Division
Mitchell	NSW	Division
Moore	WA	Division
Moreton	QLD	Division
Murray	VIC	Division
New England	NSW	Division
Newcastle	NSW	Division
North Sydney	NSW	Division
Northern Territory	NT	Division
Oxley	QLD	Division
Parkes	NSW	Division
Parramatta	NSW	Division
Paterson	NSW	Division
Perth	WA	Division
Petrie	QLD	Division
Phillip	NSW	Division
Port Adelaide	SA	Division
Reid	NSW	Division
Richmond	NSW	Division
Riverina	NSW	Division
Robertson	NSW	Division
Ryan	QLD	Division
Scullin	VIC	Division
Shortland	NSW	Division
St George	NSW	Division
Stirling	WA	Division
Sturt	SA	Division
Swan	WA	Division
Wakefield	SA	Division
Wannon	VIC	Division
Warringah	NSW	Division
Watson	NSW	Division
Wentworth	NSW	Division
Werriwa	NSW	Division
West Sydney	NSW	Division
Wide Bay	QLD	Division
Wills	VIC	Division
Wilmot	TAS	Division
Wimmera	VIC	Division
Yarra	VIC	Division

Candidate	Party	State	Votes	Elected
Jack Kane	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	131420	No
Jan Van Der Rijt	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	3210	No
Colin Macnaught	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	4070	No
William Ward	Douglas Credit	NSW	14683	No
Albert Lee	Douglas Credit	NSW	1057	No
Kenneth Whiteman	Douglas Credit	NSW	2223	No
Edward Spensley	Independent	NSW	3490	No
Arthur Ryan	Independent	NSW	1362	No
William Dawson	Pensioner Power Association of Australia	NSW	5071	No
Charles Johnston	Pensioner Power Association of Australia	NSW	1579	No
William Shaw	Pensioner Power Association of Australia	NSW	780	No
Laurence Aarons	Communist	NSW	15915	No
Freda Brown	Communist	NSW	1529	No
Leslie Kelton	Communist	NSW	1258	No
William Spooner	Liberal	NSW	720245	Yes (2)
Gerald Mckellar	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	4453	Yes (4)
Mabel Furley	Liberal	NSW	3959	No
John Phillips	Republican Party of Australia	NSW	1893	No
Keith Fitzgerald	Republican Party of Australia	NSW	5499	No
Joseph Fitzgerald	Australian Labor Party	NSW	840516	Yes (1)
Lionel Murphy	Australian Labor Party	NSW	2610	Yes (3)
Douglas Mcclelland	Australian Labor Party	NSW	5045	Yes (5)
Herbert Daley	Independent	NSW	7645	No
Ben Bernard	Independent	NSW	476	No
Albert Milne	Independent	NSW	2744	No
Ralph Gibson	Communist	VIC	39170	No
Catherine Williams	Communist	VIC	3214	No
Andrew Wallace	Communist	VIC	2932	No
Magnus Cormack	Liberal	VIC	540928	Yes (2)
Harrie Wade	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	5749	Yes (4)
Marie Breen	Liberal	VIC	3119	Yes (5)
Gerald Fitzgerald	Republican Party of Australia	VIC	2260	No
Richard Mullins	Republican Party of Australia	VIC	937	No
Charles Sandford	Australian Labor Party	VIC	551491	Yes (1)
Samuel Cohen	Australian Labor Party	VIC	3381	Yes (3)
Samuel Benson	Australian Labor Party	VIC	2027	No
Francis Mcmanus	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	189404	No
John Little	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	1247	No
John Meere	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	470	No
Anthony Van De Loo	Commonwealth Centre Party	VIC	2119	No
Robert Huart	Commonwealth Centre Party	VIC	191	No
Frank Mccaw	Commonwealth Centre Party	VIC	289	No
John Dunstan	Independent	VIC	2342	No
Louis Cole	Independent	VIC	1340	No
Walter Cooper	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	301464	Yes (1)
Annabelle Rankin	Liberal	QLD	12234	Yes (3)
Robert Sherrington	Liberal	QLD	3545	Yes (5)
Vincent C Gair	Queensland Labor Party	QLD	82112	No
John Williams	Queensland Labor Party	QLD	1251	No
Anne Wenck	Queensland Labor Party	QLD	749	No
Archibald Benn	Australian Labor Party	QLD	297632	Yes (2)
Maxwell Poulter	Australian Labor Party	QLD	2506	Yes (4)
Alfred Arnell	Australian Labor Party	QLD	2306	No
Patrick Curtis	Independent	QLD	1323	No
Charles Stuckey	Independent	QLD	295	No
Claude Jones	Communist	QLD	4566	No
John Nolan	Communist	QLD	254	No
Patricia Pastourel	Communist	QLD	243	No
James Dwyer	Independent	QLD	1417	No
Damien Kennedy	Independent	QLD	2977	No
Lyndon Barker	Independent	QLD	1004	No
Dorothy Tangney	Australian Labor Party	WA	135687	Yes (1)
Donald Willesee	Australian Labor Party	WA	2296	Yes (3)
Charles Edwards	Australian Labor Party	WA	2069	No
Patrick Troy	Communist	WA	2578	No
William Latter	Communist	WA	180	No
John Gandini	Communist	WA	305	No
Brian Peachey	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	23278	No
Gilbert Handcock	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	357	No
Francis Hrubos	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	83	No
Percival Bonser	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	242	No
Edgar Prowse	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	29470	Yes (5)
John Powell	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	696	No
Clayton Mitchell	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	924	No
Shane Paltridge	Liberal	WA	124793	Yes (2)
Victor Vincent	Liberal	WA	2022	Yes (4)
Valerie Goode	Liberal	WA	1604	No
Stephen Kellow	Independent	WA	1057	No
Robert Salter	Independent	WA	529	No
Edward Mattner	Liberal	SA	195781	Yes (2)
Douglas Hannaford	Liberal	SA	2685	Yes (4)
Nancy Buttfield	Liberal	SA	7187	Yes (6)
Alan Finger	Communist	SA	4216	No
John Sendy	Communist	SA	235	No
Joseph Buchanan	Communist	SA	549	No
Francis Moran	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	SA	24801	No
Daniel Smith	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	SA	578	No
Brian Nash	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	SA	470	No
Theophilus Nicholls	Australian Labor Party	SA	230707	Yes (1)
Reginald Bishop	Australian Labor Party	SA	1362	Yes (3)
James Cavanagh	Australian Labor Party	SA	4457	Yes (5)
Denham Henty	Liberal	TAS	31446	Yes (2)
Reginald Wright	Liberal	TAS	20814	Yes (4)
John Orchard	Liberal	TAS	11960	No
Nicholas Mckenna	Australian Labor Party	TAS	50344	Yes (1)
Albert Poke	Australian Labor Party	TAS	5508	Yes (3)
Donald Devitt	Australian Labor Party	TAS	11395	No
Max Bound	Communist	TAS	802	No
George Chenery	Communist	TAS	118	No
Peter Cundall	Communist	TAS	124	No
Virgil Morgan	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	TAS	8020	No
John Mortimer	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	TAS	349	No
Eleonora Tennant	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	TAS	467	No
Reginald Turnbull	Independent	TAS	18498	Yes (5)

1961 Federal Election

Incoming/Outgoing Members

Lower House

Upper House