Election figures

1966 (26 November)

Enrolment 57,133 Total votes 54,497 (95.39%) Informal votes 2,135 (3.92%)

Valid votes 52,362

*Kim Edward Beazley

Labor

29,827

56.96%

John Raymond Martyr

Democratic Labor Party

2,378

4.54%

Patrick Laurence Troy

Communist

1,248 2.38%

John Leonard Waghorne

Liberal

18,909 36.11%

* Sitting member

Absolute majority for Beazley 7,292

Percentage of primary valid votes in each subdivision

 

Beazley

Martyr

Troy

Waghorne

Total valid votes

Cottesloe

46.60%

4.99%

1.38%

47.03%

8,019

Fremantle

63.50%

4.17%

3.92%

28.41%

6,307

Melville

50.54%

5.29%

1.55%

42.63%

22,453

South Fremantle

73.63%

2.42%

3.49%

20.46%

11,242

Postal Votes

53.39%

4.32%

3.15%

39.14%

1,459

Absent Votes

58.00%

6.85%

5.94%

31.41%

2,700

Section votes

63.19%

3.85%

2.20%

30.77.%

182

Total

56.96%

4.54%

2.38%

36.11%

52,362

 

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