Elections were held in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state

States and territories of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a union of six states and various territories. The Australian mainland is made up of five states and three territories, with the sixth state of Tasmania being made up of islands. In addition there are six island territories, known as external territories, and a...

 of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 on 28 May 1960 to elect the 78 members of the state's 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...

. 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 established by Labor ahead of the 1950 election

Queensland state election, 1950

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 April 1950 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its seventh continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be Premier Ned Hanlon second election.The Assembly had...

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The major parties contesting the election were the 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...

 led by Premier 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:...

, the Liberal Party

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...

 led by 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...

, the Australian Labor Party

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...

 led by John Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party

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...

 led by 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...

. The Country and Liberal parties had formed a coalition.

The Country-Liberal coalition won a second term in office at the election, although the Labor Party recovered 5 seats and 11% of its vote from the 1957 election.

Key dates

Date	Event
13 April 1960	The Parliament was dissolved.
19 April 1960	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
26 April 1960	Close of nominations.
28 May 1960	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
9 June 1960	The 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...  was reconstituted.
8 July 1960	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
23 August 1960	Parliament resumed for business.

Results

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831,398 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but two Country seats representing 17,814 enrolled voters were unopposed.

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1960, as elected at the 1957 state election:-References:* Waterson, D.B. Biographical register of the Queensland Parliament, 1930-1980 Canberra: ANU Press...
  
  
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1960–1963
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1960–1963
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1960 to 1963, as elected at the 1960 state election. It was conducted on redistributed boundaries based on the Electoral Districts Act 1958, so a number of seats were abolished or created at the election.-References:* Waterson, D.B...
  
  
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1960
  Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1960
  This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1960 Queensland state election. The election was held on 28 May 1960.-By-elections:* On 31 May 1958, John Duggan was elected to succeed Leslie Wood , who had died on 29 March 1958, as the member for North Toowoomba.* On 6 June 1959, Carlisle...
  
  
• 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...