Election figures

1983 (5 March)

Enrolment 74,805 Total votes 70,193 (93.83%) Informal votes 1,779 (2.53%)

Valid votes 68,414

Maxwell Henry Adams

Liberal

22,025

32.19%

Margo Helen Condoleon

Socialist Workers Party

360

0.53%

*John Sydney Dawkins

Labor

43,326

63.33%

Colin Michael James Hall

Australian Democrats

1,733

2.53%

Timothy John Peach

Socialist Labor League

970

1.42%

* Sitting member

Absolute majority for Dawkins 18,238

Percentage of primary valid votes in each subdivision

 

Adams

Condoleon

Dawkins

Hall

Peach

Total valid votes

Bull Creek

55.48%

0.27%

40.51%

3.37%

0.37%

6199

Cockburn

23.94%

0.42%

72.28%

1.84%

1.52%

11,908

Coolbellup

22.93%

0.25%

74.37%

1.49%

0.96%

11,017

Fremantle

28.44%

0.34%

67.59%

1.78%

1.85%

12,122

Kwinana

20.18%

0.57%

73.48%

2.70%

3.08%

6,530

Palmyra

44.96%

0.39%

50.48%

3.73%

0.44%

13,175

Postal Votes

32.78%

1.81%

59.73%

3.39%

2.29%

2,096

Absent Votes

34.54%

1.86%

57.69%

3.46%

2.44%

5,202

Section votes

21.82%

0.61%

72.73%

3.64%

1.21%

165

Total

31.19%

0.53%

63.33%

2.53%

1.42%

68,414

 

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