Electoral results for the district of Leichhardt (Queensland)

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

Members for Leichhardt

These tables are an excerpt from Electoral district of Leichhardt (Queensland) § Members for Leichhardt.[edit]

Dual member electorate (1860–1873)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Robert Herbert	Unaligned	1860–1863		Charles Royds	Unaligned	1860–1864
	Gordon Sandeman	Unaligned	1863–1870
					Edmund Royds	Unaligned	1864–1868
					Charles Royds	Unaligned	1868–1872
	John Scott	Unaligned	1870–1873
					Edmund Royds	Unaligned	1872–1873

Single member electorate (1873–1878)
Member		Party	Term
	Edmund Royds	Unaligned	1873–1875
	Charles Haly	Unaligned	1876–1878

Dual member electorate (1878–1888)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	William Sheffield Paul	Unaligned	1878–1879		John Scott	Unaligned	1878–1888
	John MacFarlane	Unaligned	1879–1880
	Albrecht Feez	Unaligned	1880–1883
	Charles Dutton	Unaligned	1883–1888

Single member electorate (1888–1932)
Member		Party	Term
	William Sheffield Paul	Unaligned	1888–1893
	Herbert Hardacre	Labour	1893–1919
	Tom Foley	Labor	1919–1932

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1929 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1929 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Foley	1,861	56.0	−5.4
	CPNP	George Tuck	1,462	44.0	+5.4
Total formal votes			3,323
Informal votes
Turnout
	Labor hold		Swing	−5.4

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1926 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1926 Queensland state election: Leichhardt[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Foley	2,565	61.4	+2.7
	CPNP	Frederick Lodge	1,613	38.6	−2.7
Total formal votes			4,178	99.3	−0.1
Informal votes			30	0.7	+0.1
Turnout			4,208	83.3	+8.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1923 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1923 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Foley	2,521	58.7	−1.5
	United	Charles Kingston	1,772	41.3	+1.5
Total formal votes			4,293	99.4	+0.4
Informal votes			25	0.6	−0.4
Turnout			4,318	74.5	+2.7
	Labor hold		Swing	−1.5

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1920 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1920 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Foley	2,902	60.2	−8.5
	Country	Charles Kingston	1,922	39.8	+39.8
Total formal votes			4,824	99.0	−0.1
Informal votes			48	1.0	+0.1
Turnout			4,872	71.8	−3.5
	Labor hold		Swing	−8.5

Elections in the 1910s

1919 Leichhardt state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Foley	2,152	57.6	−11.1
	Primary Producers	Francis Brewer	1,584	42.4	+42.4
Total formal votes			3,736	99.5	+0.4
Informal votes			18	0.5	−0.4
Turnout			3,754
	Labor hold		Swing	−11.1

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1918 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1918 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Herbert Hardacre	2,811	68.7	−31.3
	National	William Smout	1,278	31.3	+31.3
Total formal votes			4,089	99.1
Informal votes			35	0.9
Turnout			4,124	75.3
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1915 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1915 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Herbert Hardacre	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1912 Queensland state election § Leichhardt.[edit]

1912 Queensland state election: Leichhardt

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Herbert Hardacre	1,702	74.8
	Liberal	William Fox	575	25.2
Total formal votes			2,277	98.4
Informal votes			36	1.6
Turnout			2,313	61.9
	Labor hold		Swing

References

1. Hughes, Colin A. (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.