Electoral results for the district of Blackwood

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Blackwood in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Blackwood

Member		Party	Term
	John Hearman	Liberal Country League	1950–1968
	Ron Kitney	Country	1968–1971
	David Reid	Country	1971–1972
	Sandy Lewis	Liberal	1972–1974

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1972 Blackwood state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sandy Lewis	2,023	39.5	+9.2
	Labor	Fred Hebbard	1,642	32.0	+6.3
	Country	Robert Wardell-Johnson	1,460	28.5	+2.6
Total formal votes			5,125	98.7	+3.7
Informal votes			67	1.3	−3.7
Turnout			5,192	86.6	−6.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sandy Lewis	3,284	64.1	+25.7
	Labor	Fred Hebbard	1,841	35.9	+35.9
	Liberal gain from Country		Swing	N/A

1971 Western Australian state election: Blackwood[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Del Willmott	1,627	30.3	−15.1
	Country	David Reid	1,392	25.9	−28.7
	Labor	Col Sumner	1,382	25.7	+25.7
	Independent	Peter Cracknell	559	10.4	+10.4
	Democratic Labor	John Fleeton	417	7.8	+7.8
Total formal votes			5,377	95.0	−1.5
Informal votes			282	5.0	+1.5
Turnout			5,659	93.1	−0.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Country	David Reid	3,314	61.6	+7.0
	Liberal	Del Willmott	2,063	38.4	−7.0
	Country hold		Swing	+7.0

Elections in the 1960s

1968 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Ron Kitney	2,798	54.6
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	2,324	45.4
Total formal votes			5,122	96.5
Informal votes			184	3.5
Turnout			5,306	93.7
	Country gain from Liberal and Country		Swing

1965 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	unopposed
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

1962 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	3,549	74.1
	Independent	Henry Rudd	1,242	25.9
Total formal votes			4,791	98.7
Informal votes			65	1.3
Turnout			4,856	94.1
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

1959 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	2,239	50.8	−49.2
	Country	Duncan Muir	2,168	49.2	+49.2
Total formal votes			4,407	97.6
Informal votes			110	2.4
Turnout			4,517	92.7
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

1956 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	unopposed
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

1953 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	unopposed
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

1950 Western Australian state election: Blackwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	1,503	34.5
	Independent	John Smith	1,149	26.3
	Labor	William Eastcott	981	22.5
	Country	Alwyn Wagner	727	16.7
Total formal votes			4,360	98.4
Informal votes			69	1.6
Turnout			4,429	92.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	John Hearman	2,284	52.4
	Independent	John Smith	2,076	47.6
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

References

1. Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.