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1953 Queensland state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1953 Queensland state election
country	Queensland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1950 Queensland state election
previous_year	1950
next_election	1956 Queensland state election
next_year	1956
seats_for_election	All 75 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
38 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
turnout	93.80 ( 1.29 pp)
election_date
image1	[[File:Queensland State Archives 4750 Hon VC Gair Premier of Queensland c 1953.png	150x150px]]
leader1	Vince Gair
leader_since1
party1	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
leaders_seat1	South Brisbane
popular_vote1	323,882
percentage1	53.21%
swing1	6.34
last_election1	42 seats
seats1	50
seat_change1	8
image2	[[File:Frank_Nicklin_1959.jpg	150x150px]]
leader2	Frank Nicklin
leader_since2	21 May 1941
party2	Country–Liberal Coalition
leaders_seat2	Landsborough
popular_vote2	243,757
percentage2	40.05%
swing2	9.11
last_election2	31 seats
seats2	23
seat_change2	8
title	Premier
before_election	Vince Gair
before_party	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
after_election	Vince Gair
after_party	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)

38 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 March 1953 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its eighth continuous term in office since the 1932 election. It was the first electoral test for Vince Gair, who had become Premier of Queensland 14 months earlier after the death of Ned Hanlon.

Key dates

Date	Event
6 February 1953	The Parliament was dissolved.
6 February 1953	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
13 February 1953	Close of nominations.
7 March 1953	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
16 March 1953	The Gair Ministry was reconstituted.
5 June 1953	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
4 August 1953	Parliament was summoned for business.

Results

The result was a considerable swing to the Labor government.

| turnout % = 93.80 | informal % = 1.28 |votes % = 53.21% |votes % = 21.30% |votes % = 18.75% |votes % = 1.10% |votes % = 0.67% |votes % = 0.65% |votes % = 0.13% |votes % = 4.19% |}

: 737,579 electors were enrolled to vote at the election; however, 11 seats (14.7% of the total) were uncontested, eight of them Labor-held seats representing 49,466 enrolled voters, as well as two Country seats representing 20,053 voters and one Liberal seat representing 10,711 voters.

Seats changing party representation

This table lists changes in party representation at the 1953 election.

Seat	Incumbent member	Party
Condamine	Eric Allpass	Country	Les Diplock
Cook	Carlisle Wordsworth	Country	Bunny Adair
Mulgrave	Bob Watson	Country	Charles English
Norman	Louis Luckins	Liberal	Bill Baxter
Roma	William Ewan	Country	Alfred Dohring
Sandgate	Eric Decker	Liberal	Herbert Robinson
Somerset	Duncan MacDonald	Country	Alexander Skinner

Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats.
In addition, Labor retained the seat of Kedron, which it had won from the Liberals at the 1951 by-election.

References

(6 February 1953). "A Proclamation".
{{Gazette QLD. (6 February 1953)
(6 March 1953). "Put a '1' in that square". [[The Courier-Mail]].
(2 July 1953). "A Proclamation".
Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 7 March 1953".

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