COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 10 DECEMBER 1955 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications THE SENATE ==================================================================== QUEENSLAND (Five senators to be elected) ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 752,645 +03.7 Votes cast: 710,256 94.4 -00.3 Informal votes: 28,883 04.1 +01.5 Formal votes: 681,373 95.9 -01.5 Quota for election: 113,563 16.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Millar CPA 23,884 03.5 Group A Warren Bowden CPA 1,971 00.3 Q:0.249 Albert Robinson CPA 2,417 00.4 Hon Walter COOPER * CP 346,564 50.9 ELECTED 1 Hon Neil O'Sullivan * Lib 7,080 01.0 Group B Annabelle Rankin * Lib 16,885 02.5 Q:3.263 Archibald BENN * ALP 267,212 39.2 ELECTED 2 Benjamin Courtice * ALP 6,068 00.9 Group C Edward Ashmore ALP 9,292 01.4 Q:2.488 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 681,373 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cooper's 233,001 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Millar 361 00.2 24,245 03.6 Bowden 163 00.1 2,134 00.3 Robinson 122 00.1 2,539 00.4 COOPER * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 1 O'SULLIVAN * 229,704 98.6 236,784 34.8 ELECTED 3 Rankin * 2,184 00.9 19,069 02.8 BENN * E 267,212 39.2 ELECTED 2 Courtice * 370 00.2 6,438 00.9 Ashmore 97 00.0 9,389 01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 233,001 681,373 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Benn's 153,649 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Millar 115 00.1 24,360 03.6 Bowden 33 00.0 2,167 00.3 Robinson 29 00.0 2,568 00.4 COOPER * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 1 O'SULLIVAN * 189 00.1 236,973 34.8 ELECTED 3 Rankin * 136 00.1 19,205 02.8 BENN * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 2 COURTICE * 152,614 99.3 159,052 23.3 ELECTED 4 Ashmore 533 00.3 9,922 01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 153,649 681,373 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: O'Sullivan's 123,410 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Millar 43 00.0 24,403 03.6 Bowden 14 00.0 2,181 00.3 Robinson 18 00.0 2,586 00.4 COOPER * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 1 O'SULLIVAN * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 3 RANKIN * 123,235 99.9 142,440 20.9 ELECTED 5 BENN * E 113,563 16.7 ELECTED 2 COURTICE * E 159,052 23.3 ELECTED 4 Ashmore 100 00.1 10,022 01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 123,410 681,373 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 1 July 1956. Benn, Cooper, Courtice, O'Sullivan and Rankin elected for a term 30 June 1962. Continuing Senators (term to end 30 June 1959): Hon Gordon BROWN (ALP), Condon BYRNE (ALP), Roy KENDALL (Lib), Edmund MAHER (CP), Ian WOOD (Lib). -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archibald Malcolm Benn (1897-1980): Elected 1949, 1951, 1955 > Gordon Brown (1885-1967): Elected 1931, 1937, 1943, 1949, 1951, 1953 > Condon Bryan Byrne (1910-93): Elected 1951, 1953 > Walter Jackson Cooper (1891-1973): Elected 1928. Defeated 1931. Elected 1934, 1940, 1946, 1951, 1955 Minister for Repatriation > Benjamin Courtice (1886-1972): Appointed 1937. Elected 1937, 1943, 1949, 1951, 1955 > Roy Kendall (1899-1972): Elected 1949, 1951, 1953 > Edmund Bede Maher (1891-1982): Elected 1949, 1951, 1953 > Neil O'Sullivan (1900-68): Elected 1946, 1951, 1955 Minister for Trade and Customs to 11 January 1956 Minister for the Navy 11 January 1956 to 24 October 1956 Attorney-General from 15 August 1956 Vice-President of the Executive Council from 24 October 1956 > Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin (1908-86): Elected 1946, 1951, 1955 > Ian Alexander Christie Wood (1901-92): Elected 1949, 1951, 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Byrne resigned from the ALP in May 1957 and joined the ALP (Anti- Communist). --------------------------------------------------------------------