1 June 1963 (1963-06-01) 1966 → 46 seats 26 seats 44.07% 43.83% | 46 seats 25 seats 0 1 Date 1 June 1963 | |
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21 May 1941 18 August 1958 (1958-08-18) Winner Frank Nicklin | ||
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 June 1963 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party led by Premier Frank Nicklin, the Liberal Party led by Alan Munro, the Australian Labor Party led by Jack Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party led by Paul Hilton. The Country and Liberal parties governed in coalition.
This election marked the return of preferential voting after first past the post voting had been used for elections from 1944-1960.
The Country-Liberal coalition won a third term in office at the election.
Results
1 839,323 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but the Labor-held seat of Burke was not contested.References
Queensland state election, 1963 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA