Electoral results for the district of Gascoyne

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Gascoyne in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Gascoyne

Gascoyne state by-election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Dudley Maslen	2,165	53.0	-7.5
	Labor	Kevin Leahy	1,919	47.0	+7.5
Total formal votes			4,084	98.2	+0.4
Informal votes			73	1.8	-0.4
Turnout			4,157	81.6	-4.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-7.5

Western Australian state election, 1986: Gascoyne^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,600	60.5	-1.3
	Labor	Kevin Leahy	1,697	39.5	+1.3
Total formal votes			4,297	97.8	+0.5
Informal votes			96	2.2	-0.5
Turnout			4,393	85.9	+1.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.3

Western Australian state election, 1983: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,026	61.8
	Labor	John Cunningham	1,253	38.2
Total formal votes			3,279	97.3
Informal votes			91	2.7
Turnout			3,370	84.6
	Liberal hold		Swing

Western Australian state election, 1980: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,015	61.6	-7.9
	Labor	Robert Price	1,183	36.1	+9.6
	Independent	Robert Phillips	75	2.3	-1.7
Total formal votes			3,273	97.2	+0.1
Informal votes			95	2.8	-0.1
Turnout			3,368	87.7	-1.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,052	62.7	-8.9
	Labor	Robert Price	1,221	37.3	+8.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-8.9

Western Australian state election, 1977: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,192	69.5
	Labor	Robert Brown	834	26.5
	Independent	Robert Phillips	127	4.0
Total formal votes			3,153	97.1
Informal votes			95	2.9
Turnout			3,248	89.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,256	71.6	+6.2
	Labor	Robert Brown	897	28.4	-6.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+6.2

Western Australian state election, 1974: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	1,610	50.5
	Labor	Frank Davis	955	30.0
	National Alliance	Wilson Tuckey	511	16.0
	Independent	Robert Phillips	111	3.5
Total formal votes			3,187	95.3
Informal votes			156	4.7
Turnout			3,343	88.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ian Laurance	2,100	65.9
	Labor	Frank Davis	1,087	34.1
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing

Western Australian state election, 1971: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,546	58.1	-4.1
	Liberal	Keith Hasleby	839	31.5	-2.6
	Independent	Robert Phillips	167	6.3	+6.3
	Democratic Labor	Kevin Courtney	110	4.1	+4.1
Total formal votes			2,662	96.1	-1.3
Informal votes			109	3.9	+1.3
Turnout			2,771	84.4	-0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,645	61.8	-2.3
	Liberal	Keith Hasleby	1,017	38.2	+2.3
	Labor hold		Swing	-2.3

Western Australian state election, 1968: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,321	62.2
	Liberal and Country	Peter Butler	724	34.1
	Independent	Neville Brandstater	79	3.7
Total formal votes			2,124	97.4
Informal votes			56	2.6
Turnout			2,180	84.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,361	64.1
	Liberal and Country	Peter Butler	763	35.9
	Labor hold		Swing

Western Australian state election, 1965: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,064	62.5	-37.5
	Liberal and Country	Stewart Maver	556	32.7	+32.7
	Independent	Neville Brandstater	82	4.8	+4.8
Total formal votes			1,702	97.5
Informal votes			43	2.5
Turnout			1,745	85.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Daniel Norton	1,106	65.8	-2.2
	Liberal and Country	Stewart Maver	596	34.2	+2.2
	Labor hold		Swing	-2.2

Western Australian state election, 1962: Gascoyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Daniel Norton	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

↑ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.

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