Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Burke in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1949 until its abolition in 1955.
Members
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Ted Peters | Labor | 1949–1955 |
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Ted Peters | 23,510 | 68.7 | −3.7 | |
Liberal | Alfred Wall | 9,260 | 27.0 | −0.6 | |
Communist | Vida Little | 1,467 | 4.3 | +4.3 | |
Total formal votes | 34,237 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 613 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 34,850 | 96.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ted Peters | 72.6 | +0.2 | ||
Liberal | Alfred Wall | 27.4 | −0.2 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Ted Peters | 27,422 | 72.4 | +10.3 | |
Liberal | Alfred Wall | 10,446 | 27.6 | +2.4 | |
Total formal votes | 37,868 | 97.8 | |||
Informal votes | 861 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 38,729 | 96.1 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Ted Peters | 24,362 | 62.1 | +11.1 | |
Liberal | Alfred Wall | 9,865 | 25.2 | +2.4 | |
Independent | Henry Hodges | 4,720 | 12.0 | +12.0 | |
Independent | James Whitworth | 271 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
Total formal votes | 39,218 | 97.5 | |||
Informal votes | 999 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | 40,217 | 95.8 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ted Peters | 69.4 | −0.7 | ||
Liberal | Alfred Wall | 30.6 | +0.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | −0.7 |