Election figures

1963 (30 November)

Enrolment 52,569 Total votes 50,601 (96.26%) Informal votes 1,043 (2.06%)

Valid votes 49,558

*Kim Edward Beazley

Labor

27,203

54.89%

James Price Collins

Independent

748

1.51%

Patrick Laurence Troy

Communist

676 1.38%

John Leonard Waghorne

Liberal and Country League

20,931 42.23%

* Sitting member

Absolute majority for Beazley 4,848

Percentage of primary valid votes in each subdivision

 

Beazley

Collins

Troy

Waghorne

Total valid votes

Cottesloe

41.32%

1.18%

0.78%

56.71%

8,187

Fremantle

62.64%

1.69%

2.31%

33.36%

6,925

Melville

48.39%

0.89%

0.95%

49.77%

21,191

South Fremantle

75.41%

1.51%

1.77%

21.31%

9,663

Postal votes

51.40%

5.60%

1.84%

41.15%

1,249

Absent votes

55.24%

5.74%

2.50%

36.52%

2,196

Section votes

58.50%

2.04%

1.36%

38.10%

147

Total

54.89%

1.51%%

1.36%

42.24%

49,558

 

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