Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
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This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland Legislative Assembly
The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

from 1957 to 1960, as elected at the 1957 state election
Queensland state election, 1957
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

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Name Party Electorate Term in office
Bunny Adair  QLP
Queensland Labor Party
The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 
Cook
Electoral district of Cook
The electoral division of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands...

 
1953–1969
Thomas Ahearn  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 
Sandgate
Electoral district of Sandgate
The district of Sandgate is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, covering Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Deagon, Brighton, Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon, and Taigum...

 
1957–1960
Tom Aikens  NQLP
North Queensland Labor Party
The North Queensland Labor Party was a minor political party in Australia from 1949 to 1974. The Party succeeded the Hermit Park Labor Party in 1949 and was succeeded by the North Queensland Party in 1974....

 
Mundingburra
Electoral district of Mundingburra
The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.- Overview :The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital,...

 
1944–1977
Mervyn Anderson  Liberal Toowoomba
Electoral district of Toowoomba
The Electoral District of Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton...

 
1957–1966
William Baxter  Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
Norman  1953–1966
Edwin Beardmore  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

 
Balonne  1957–1969
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG , was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state...

 
Country Barambah
Electoral district of Barambah
Barambah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.The district was based in the South Burnett region. It is best known for being the seat of long-serving Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen....

 
1947–1987
James Burrows  Labor Port Curtis
Electoral district of Port Curtis
Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...

 
1947–1963
Peter Byrne  Labor Mourilyan
Electoral district of Mourilyan
Mourilyan was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992.First created for the 1950 state election, the district was based in north Queensland, centred on the town of Mourilyan, taking in areas previously belonging to the abolished...

 
1950–1969
Hon Gordon Chalk
Gordon Chalk
Sir Gordon William Wesley Chalk, KBE was Premier of Queensland for a week, from 1 to 8 August 1968. He was the first, and only, Queensland Premier from the modern Liberal Party of Australia....

 
Liberal Lockyer
Electoral district of Lockyer
The district of Lockyer is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district consists primarily of Gatton and Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton and a number of smaller centres including...

 
1947–1976
James Clark  Labor Fitzroy  1935–1960
Arthur Coburn  Independent Burdekin
Electoral district of Burdekin
Burdekin is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern suburbs as well as the coal-mining town of Collinsville...

 
1950–1969
Peter Connolly
Peter Connolly (Australian judge)
Peter David Connolly QC was an Australian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.Born in Sydney in 1920, Connolly served in the 2nd Australian Imperial Force between 1940 and 1946...

 
Liberal Kurilpa
Electoral district of Kurilpa
Kurilpa was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland from 1912 to 1986. It was named for the Kurilpa Peninsula on the Brisbane River...

 
1957–1960
Horace Davies  Labor Maryborough
Electoral district of Maryborough
The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....

 
1953–1971
Edward Davis  Labor Barcoo  1943–1961
Alexander Dewar  Liberal Chermside
Electoral district of Chermside
Chermside was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Chermside. The first existed from 1950 to 1960 and the second from...

 
1950–1969
Leslie Diplock  QLP Condamine
Electoral district of Condamine
The district of Condamine is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Condamine takes in areas to the north-west, west and south of Toowoomba. It includes the towns of Dalby, Oakey, Pittsworth and Clifton. The district is named for the Condamine River...

 
1953–1972
James Donald  Labor Bremer  1946–1969
John Dufficy
John Dufficy
John Joseph Dufficy was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1951 to 1969....

 
Labor Warrego
Electoral district of Warrego
The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...

 
1951–1969
Hon John Duggan  Labor North Toowoomba
Electoral district of North Toowoomba
The electoral district of North Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1950 redistribution and removed by the 1960 redistribution....

 
1935–1957, 1958–1969
Hon Ernie Evans  Country Mirani
Electoral district of Mirani
The district of Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina, and Eungella...

 
1947–1965
William Ewan  Country Roma  1950–1953, 1957–1967
Hon Alan Fletcher  Country Cunningham
Electoral district of Cunningham
Cunningham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 2009.Prior to its abolition, the district occupied an area of the Darling Downs, south and west of Toowoomba. Historically it was centred on the town of Clifton. The eastern portion...

 
1953–1974
Hon Tom Foley  QLP Belyando  1919–1960
Hon Vince Gair
Vince Gair
Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...

 
QLP South Brisbane
Electoral district of South Brisbane
The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...

 
1932–1960
Mick Gardner
Mick Gardner
Harold Raymond "Mick" Gardner was an Australian politician. He was the member for Rockhampton in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1960, initially for the Australian Labor Party and then from 1957 as part of the right-wing breakaway Queensland Labor Party...

 
QLP Rockhampton
Electoral district of Rockhampton
The district of Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional city of Rockhampton and many of its outlying...

 
1956–1960
Eric Gaven  Country Southport
Electoral district of Southport
The district of Southport is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the northern part of the Gold Coast. It is named for the suburb of Southport, and also includes the suburbs of Arundel, Ernest, Labrador, Molendinar and...

 
1950–1966
Tom Gilmore
Tom Gilmore, senior
Thomas Vernon "Tom" Gilmore was an Australian politician. Born in Wolfram, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before becoming a sugarcane and tobacco grower at Babinda. He served in the military 1942–47...

 
Country Tablelands
Electoral district of Tablelands
Tablelands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Prior to its abolition, it encompassed towns on the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns, including Mareeba, Atherton, Ravenshoe, Chillagoe and Mount Molloy. The seat was won by the One Nation Party...

 
1957–1963
Fred Graham  Labor Mackay
Electoral district of Mackay
The district of Mackay is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in North Queensland, Australia, encompassing the inner suburbs of the city of Mackay...

 
1943–1969
William Gunn  Labor Wynnum
Electoral district of Wynnum
Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986.The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Wynnum.-Members for Wynnum:...

 
1944–1966
Pat Hanlon  Labor Ithaca  1956–1974
Robert Harrison  Country Darlington
Electoral district of Darlington
Darlington was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Redfern and named after and including the inner Sydney suburb of Darlington. It was abolished in 1904 with the downsizing of...

 
1957–1966
Graham Hart
Graham Hart
Graham Lloyd Hart was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Mount Gravatt in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1963....

 
Liberal Mount Gravatt
Electoral district of Mount Gravatt
Mount Gravatt was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2009.The district was based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane...

 
1957–1963
Hon James Heading
James Heading
James Alfred Heading was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Wide Bay from 1947 to 1950 and for Marodian from 1950 to 1960....

 
Country Marodian  1947–1960
John Herbert  Liberal Sherwood
Electoral district of Sherwood
Sherwood was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992.First created for the 1950 state election, the district was based in the south-western suburbs of Brisbane, covering areas that previously belonged to the abolished district of Oxley...

 
1956–1978
Neville Hewitt  Country Mackenzie  1956–1980
Hon Thomas Hiley  Liberal Coorparoo  1944–1966
Hon Paul Hilton  QLP
Queensland Labor Party
The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 
Carnarvon
Electoral district of Carnarvon
Carnarvon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland that existed from 1873 to 1992.The district took in rural areas in southern Queensland, including the towns of Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi....

 
1935–1963
Max Hodges  Country Nash  1957–1979
Keith Hooper  Liberal Buranda  1957–1977
Jack Houston
Jack Houston
John William "Jack" Houston was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bulimba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1980....

 
Labor Bulimba
Electoral district of Bulimba
-External links:*...

 
1957–1980
Cecil Jesson  Labor Hinchinbrook
Electoral district of Hinchinbrook
The district of Hinchinbrook is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from just south of Innisfail to just north of Townsville; though neither town is part of the electorate....

 
1935–1960
Hon Arthur Jones  QLP Charters Towers
Electoral district of Charters Towers
Charters Towers was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008....

 
1929–1932, 1939–1960
Vincent Jones  Country Callide
Electoral district of Callide
The district of Callide is an electoral division in Queensland, Australia.It encompasses agricultural and mining towns in the Burnett, Callide and Dawson valleys...

 
1950–1971
George Keyatta  Labor Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...

 
1939–1960
William Knox
William Knox (Queensland politician)
Sir William Knox was born in Victoria, Australia and was the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the district of Nundah for the Liberal Party of Australia between from 1956 to 1989....

 
Liberal Nundah
Electoral district of Nundah
Nundah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 1992.The district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. At the time of its abolition it included the suburbs of Nundah, Eagle Farm, Hendra and Toombul.-Members for Nundah:...

 
1957–1989
Eric Lloyd  Labor Kedron
Electoral district of Kedron
Kedron was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron. The first existed from 1950 to 1972 and the second from 1992 to...

 
1951–1972
Bill Lonergan  Country Flinders
Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland)
The electoral district of Flinders was formerly a state electorate in the Parliament of Queensland covering parts of central Queensland. It was abolished in a redistribution in 1991, effective 1992. The last sitting member of the seat was Bob Katter, who had held it since December 1974.-Members for...

 
1957–1958, 1958–1974
David Low  Country Cooroora  1947–1974
Colin McCathie  QLP Haughton  1950–1960
Hon Otto Madsen  Country Warwick
Electoral district of Warwick
Warwick was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 2001. It centred on the town of Warwick....

 
1947–1963
Hon John Henry Mann  Labor Brisbane
Electoral district of Brisbane (Queensland)
Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1977.Based in inner central Brisbane, north of the Brisbane River, it was first created as a single member constituency for the 1912 state election, largely replacing the dual member...

 
1936–1969
Ivor Marsden  Labor Ipswich
Electoral district of Ipswich
The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland...

 
1949–1966
Hon Kenneth Morris
Kenneth Morris (Australian politician)
Sir Kenneth James Morris KBE was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School before becoming the director of his family's boot manufacturing firm. In 1931, he married Ettie Louise Dunlop. He served in the military 1939-1944, in Britain , Tobruk and Egypt...

 
Liberal Mount Coot-tha
Electoral district of Mount Coot-tha
The district of Mount Coot-tha is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-west, including Milton, Auchenflower, Paddington, Bardon and parts of the suburbs of Toowong and Ashgrove...

 
1944–1963
Hon Adolf Muller  Country Fassifern  1935–1969
Hon Alan Munro  Liberal Toowong  1950–1966
David Nicholson  Country Murrumba
Electoral district of Murrumba
The district of Murrumba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Murrumba Downs and Rothwell...

 
1950–1972
Hon Frank Nicklin
Frank Nicklin
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, KCMG, MM was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, and the first Country Party Premier since 1932.-Early life and career:...

 
Country Landsborough
Electoral district of Landsborough
Landsborough was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992. The district was based on the Sunshine Coast....

 
1932–1968
Hon Dr Winston Noble  Liberal Yeronga
Electoral district of Yeronga
Yeronga was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.The district was based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Yeronga.-Members for Yeronga:...

 
1950–1964
Hon Jack Pizzey
Jack Pizzey
Jack Charles Allan Pizzey was a Queensland Country Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland, in a coalition with the Liberal Party, from 17 January 1968 until his death on 31 July that year....

 
Country Isis  1950–1968
Hon William Power  QLP Baroona  1935–1960
Wally Rae Country Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

 
1957–1974
Ray Ramsden  Liberal Merthyr
Electoral district of Merthyr
Merthyr was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in inner Brisbane centred on the suburb of New Farm, covering areas that previously belonged to the district of...

 
1957–1971
Harold Richter  Country Somerset  1957–1972
Lloyd Roberts
Lloyd Roberts (politician)
Lloyd Henry Scurfield Roberts was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Whitsunday in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1961....

 
Country Whitsunday
Electoral district of Whitsunday
The district of Whitsunday is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Australia.It encompasses the Whitsunday Islands as well as mainland centres from Bowen to the northern suburbs of Mackay, Queensland, including the tourist resort of Airlie Beach and the sugar...

 
1950–1961
Alfred Smith  QLP Carpentaria  1941–1960
Percy Smith  Liberal Windsor
Electoral district of Windsor (Queensland)
Windsor was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, taking in areas north of Breakfast Creek and south of Kedron Brook...

 
1957–1969
Walter Sparkes  Country Aubigny
Electoral district of Aubigny
The electoral district of Aubigny was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. It was first created in a redistribution ahead of the 1873 state election, and existed until the 1972 state election....

 
1932–1935, 1941–1960
Harold Taylor  Liberal Clayfield
Electoral district of Clayfield
The district of Clayfield is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. It is centred around the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane....

 
1947–1963
Mervyn Thackeray  Labor/Independent Keppel
Electoral district of Keppel
The district of Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north...

 
1957–1972
Douglas Tooth  Liberal Kelvin Grove  1957–1974
George Wallace  Labor Cairns
Electoral district of Cairns
The electoral district of Cairns is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses the central business district and inner-suburbs of Cairns, in Far North Queensland...

 
1956–1964
Hon Ted Walsh  QLP
Queensland Labor Party
The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 
Bundaberg
Electoral district of Bundaberg
The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name....

 
1935–1947, 1950–1969
Robert Watson Country Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

 
1950–1953, 1957–1959
Robert Windsor  Liberal Fortitude Valley  1957–1966
Leslie Wood  Labor North Toowoomba
Electoral district of North Toowoomba
The electoral district of North Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1950 redistribution and removed by the 1960 redistribution....

 
1946–1947, 1950–1958
Carlisle Wordsworth Country Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

 
1950–1953, 1959–1960

On 13 July 1957, three weeks before the 1957 state election
Queensland state election, 1957
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

, George Devries, the Labor member for Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

, died. The election was therefore postponed in Gregory until 5 October 1957, when the Country candidate Wally Rae was elected.
At the 1957 state election
Queensland state election, 1957
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

, the seat of Flinders
Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland)
The electoral district of Flinders was formerly a state electorate in the Parliament of Queensland covering parts of central Queensland. It was abolished in a redistribution in 1991, effective 1992. The last sitting member of the seat was Bob Katter, who had held it since December 1974.-Members for...

 was decided in favour of Country candidate Bill Lonergan over Labor incumbent Frank Forde
Frank Forde
Francis Michael Forde PC was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australia's history, being in office for only eight days.-Early life:...

 by one vote. The resulting Elections Tribunal, which was conducted by Mr Justice Philp and heard evidence on 17 February 1958, found on 4 March 1958 that one of the presiding officers had "so improperly conducted a poll that the election was void". Lonergan won the resulting by-election on 17 May 1958 by 1,948 votes to Forde's 1,534.
On 29 March 1958, the Labor member for North Toowoomba
Electoral district of North Toowoomba
The electoral district of North Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1950 redistribution and removed by the 1960 redistribution....

 and Opposition Leader
Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)
This is a list of Leaders of the Opposition in Queensland. Prior to 1898, opposition to the government of the day was less organised. Thus the Queensland Parliamentary Record does not designate Leaders of the Opposition before then....

, Leslie Wood, died. Labor candidate and former Deputy Premier John Duggan won the resulting by-election on 31 May 1958, and subsequently became leader of the Labor Party.
On 26 March 1959, the Country member for Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

, Robert Watson, died. Country candidate Carlisle Wordsworth won the resulting by-election on 6 June 1959.
On 7 May 1960, three weeks before the 1960 state election
Queensland state election, 1960
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 28 May 1960 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election followed the enactment of the Electoral Districts Act 1958 which increased the Assembly from 75 to 78 seats and modified the zonal system first...

, Carlisle Wordsworth, the Country member for Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

, died. The election was therefore postponed in Mulgrave.

See also

  • Queensland state election, 1957
    Queensland state election, 1957
    Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

  • Nicklin Ministry
    Nicklin Ministry
    The Nicklin Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Country Party Premier Frank Nicklin. It succeeded the Gair Ministry on 12 August 1957 following the defeat of both Labor and the QLP at the state election held nine days earlier...

     (Country Party
    National Party of Australia
    The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

    ) (1957–1968)
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