REFERENDUM OF 27 MAY 1967 =================================================================== Title 1: Constitutional Alteration (Parliament) 2: Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginals) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal 1: To amend the Constitution to give the Commonwealth power to increase the number of Members of the House of Representatives without necessarily increasing the number of Senators. State Enrolment Turnout Informal ------------------------------------------------------------------- NSW 2,315,828 2,166,507 (93.5) 34,355 (01.6) Vic 1,734,476 1,630,594 (94.0) 21,262 (01.3) Qld 904,808 848,728 (93.8) 9,855 (01.2) SA 590,275 560,844 (95.0) 11,380 (02.0) WA 437,609 405,666 (92.7) 10,302 (02.5) Tas 199,589 189,245 (94.8) 3,821 (02.0) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,182,585 5,801,584 (93.8) 90,975 (01.6) ------------------------------------------------------------------- State Formal For Against ------------------------------------------------------------------- NSW 2,132,152 1,087,694 (51.0) * 1,044,458 (49.0) Vic 1,609,332 496,826 (30.9) 1,112,506 (69.1) * Qld 838,873 370,200 (44.1) 468,673 (55.9) * SA 549,464 186,344 (33.9) 363,120 (66.1) * WA 395,364 114,841 (29.0) 280,523 (71.0) * Tas 185,424 42,764 (23.1) 142,660 (76.9) * ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,710,609 2,298,669 (40.2) 3,411,940 (59.8) * ------------------------------------------------------------------- The proposal was rejected nationally and in five states and was therefore not carried. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal 2: To amend the Constitution to give the Commonwealth power to make laws with specific reference to the Aboriginal people, and to remove a section held to be discriminatory against the Aboriginal people. State Enrolment Turnout Informal ------------------------------------------------------------------- NSW 2,315,828 2,166,507 (93.5) 35,461 (01.6) Vic 1,734,476 1,630,594 (94.0) 19,957 (01.2) Qld 904,808 848,728 (93.8) 9,529 (01.1) SA 590,275 560,844 (95.0) 12,021 (02.1) WA 437,609 405,666 (92.7) 10,561 (02.6) Tas 199,589 189,245 (94.8) 3,935 (02.1) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,182,585 5,801,584 (93.8) 91,464 (01.6) ------------------------------------------------------------------- State Formal For Against ------------------------------------------------------------------- NSW 2,131,046 1,949,036 (91.4) * 182,010 (08.6) Vic 1,610,637 1,525,026 (94.7) * 85,611 (05.3) Qld 839,199 748,612 (89.2) * 90,587 (10.8) SA 548,823 473,440 (86.3) * 75,383 (13.7) WA 395,105 319,823 (80.9) * 75,282 (19.1) Tas 185,310 167,176 (90.2) * 18,134 (09.8) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,710,120 5,183,113 (90.8) * 527,007 (09.2) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The proposal was approved nationally and in six states and was therefore carried. -------------------------------------------------------------------