Electoral results for the district of Barossa

This is a list of election results for the electoral district of Barossa in South Australian elections.

Members for Barossa

Two members (1857–1901)
Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Walter Duffield 1857–1868   Horace Dean 1857–1857
  William Bakewell 1857–1860
  Edward Grundy 1860–1862
  Joseph Barritt 1862–1864
  John Williams 1864–1865
  James Martin 1865–1868
  Richard Baker 1868–1871   Philip Santo 1868–1870
  Walter Duffield 1870–1871
  John Howard Angas 1871–1876   J. A. T. Lake 1871–1875
  Johann Sudholz 1875–1875
  John Dunn Jr. 1875–1878
  Martin Basedow 1876–1890
  John Downer 1878–1891
  James Hague 1890–1891
  Defence League 1891–1896   Defence League 1891–1896
  1896–1902   National League 1896–1901
  Ephraim Coombe Labor 1901–1902
Three members (1902–1938)
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Richard Butler 1902–1904   Ephraim Coombe 1902–1906   William Gilbert National League 1902–1906
  Farmers and Producers 1904–1910
    Liberal and Democratic 1906–1910   Samuel Rudall Liberal and Democratic 1906–1910
  Liberal Union 1910–1923   Independent 1910–1912   Liberal Union 1910–1915
  William Hague Liberal Union 1912–1923  
  Ephraim Coombe Labor 1915–1917
  Henry Crosby Liberal Union 1917–1924
  Liberal Federation 1923–1924   Liberal Federation 1923–1924   Liberal Federation 1923–1924
  George Cooke Labor 1924–1931   Leonard Hopkins Labor 1924–1927
  Henry Crosby Liberal Federation 1924–1930
  Herbert Basedow Independent 1927–1930
  Thomas Edwards Labor 1930–1931   Leonard Hopkins Labor 1930–1931
  Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933   Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933   Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933
  Herbert Lyons Liberal and Country 1933–1938   Henry Crosby Liberal and Country 1933–1938   Herbert Basedow Independent 1933–1933
  Reginald Rudall Liberal and Country 1933–1938
Second incarnation (1956–1970)
Member Party Term
  Condor Laucke Liberal and Country 1956–1965
  Molly Byrne Labor 1965–1970

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

1968 South Australian state election: Barossa[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Molly Byrne 8,792 52.5 +1.0
Liberal and Country Roger Goldsworthy 7,608 45.4 −0.8
Democratic Labor Bernard McRae 216 1.3 +0.4
Independent Luke Horan 138 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 16,754 98.1 −0.5
Informal votes 331 1.9 +0.5
Turnout 17,085 95.1 −0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Molly Byrne 8,893 53.1 +0.8
Liberal and Country Roger Goldsworthy 7,861 46.9 −0.8
Labor hold Swing +0.8
1965 South Australian state election: Barossa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Molly Byrne 6,015 51.5 +51.5
Liberal and Country Condor Laucke 5,405 46.2 −39.7
Social Credit David Wood 165 1.4 +1.4
Democratic Labor Andrew Shore 104 0.9 +0.9
Total formal votes 11,689 98.6 +5.7
Informal votes 170 1.4 −5.7
Turnout 11,859 95.6 +1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Molly Byrne 6,113 52.3 +52.3
Liberal and Country Condor Laucke 5,576 47.7 −38.2
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A
1962 South Australian state election: Barossa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Condor Laucke 6,172 85.9 −14.1
Communist Fred Slater 1,011 14.1 +14.1
Total formal votes 7,183 92.9
Informal votes 549 7.1
Turnout 7,732 94.4
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

1959 South Australian state election: Barossa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Condor Laucke unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

References

  1. ^ History of South Australian elections, 1857-2006 - by Dean Jaensch - ISBN 978-0-9750486-3-4
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