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Encyclopedia > Australian general election, 1963
Federal election major party leaders
< 1961 1963 1966 >

Liberal
Robert Menzies
Prime Minister
Parliament: 29 years
Leader since: 1945
Division: Kooyong Federal elections were held in Australia on December 9, 1961. ... Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ... The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. ...


Labor
Arthur Calwell
Opposition leader
Parliament: 23 years
Leader since: 1960
Division: Melbourne Rt Hon Arthur Calwell (with young migrant, 1949) Arthur Augustus Calwell (August 28, 1896 - July 8, 1973) Australian politician, was Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. ... Melbourne is an Australian Electoral Division of Victoria. ...

Federal elections were held in Australia on November 30, 1963. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives, no Senate seats were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies with coalition partner the Country Party led by John McEwen defeated the Australian Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... Australian Senate chamber Entrance to the Senate The Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ... The Coalition in Australian politics refers to the grouping of two political parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922, with only brief breaks (e. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party, originally called the Country Party, adopting the name of National Country Party in 1975 and adopting its present name in 1982. ... Sir John McEwen (March 29, 1900 - November 20, 1980), Australian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Australia, was born at Chiltern, Victoria, where his father was a pharmacist. ... The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... Rt Hon Arthur Calwell (with young migrant, 1949) Arthur Augustus Calwell (August 28, 1896 - July 8, 1973) Australian politician, was Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. ...

House of Reps — 1963-66 — Turnout 95.73% — Informal 1.82%
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Australian Labor Party 2,489,184 45.47 -2.43 50 -10
  Liberal Party of Australia 2,030,823 37.09 +3.51 52 +7
  Country Party 489,498 8.94 +0.43 20 +3
  Democratic Labor Party 407,416 7.44 -1.27 0 0
  Independents 22,757 0.42 0 0
  Other 35,035 0.64 0 0
  Total 5,474,713     122
  LPA/NAT coalition WIN 52.60 +3.10 72 +10
  Australian Labor Party 47.40 -3.10 50 -10
Senate — 1964-67 — Turnout 94.49% — Informal 6.98%
  Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Seats Held
  Australian Labor Party 2,308,670 44.66 -0.04 14 27
  Liberal/National (Joint Ticket) 1,873,696 36.25 +3.09 7 *
  Democratic Labor Party 433,511 8.39 -1.43 2 2
  Liberal Party of Australia 426,026 8.24 -0.03 6 23
  Country Party 62,359 1.21 +0.56 1 7
  Independents 10,151 0.20 -0.77 0 1
  Other 54,637 1.06 0 0
  Total 5,169,050     30 60

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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party, originally called the Country Party, adopting the name of National Country Party in 1975 and adopting its present name in 1982. ... The Coalition in Australian politics refers to the grouping of two political parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922, with only brief breaks (e. ... The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party, originally called the Country Party, adopting the name of National Country Party in 1975 and adopting its present name in 1982. ...




The election was held following the early dissolution of the House of Representatives. The Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, gave as his reason for calling an election within two years that there was an insufficient working majority in the House.[1] The 1961 election had been won with a substantially reduced majority of only two seats. One of the consequences of an early House election was that there were separate Senate and House elections until 1974. Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ... Federal elections were held in Australia on December 9, 1961. ... Federal elections were held in Australia on May 18, 1974. ...


The Coalition government of the Liberal Party led by Robert Menzies and the Country Party led by John McEwen was returned with a substantially increased majority over the Australian Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian conservative political party, which claims to represent rural voters. ... Sir John McEwen (March 29, 1900 - November 20, 1980), Australian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Australia, was born at Chiltern, Victoria, where his father was a pharmacist. ... The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... Rt Hon Arthur Calwell (with young migrant, 1949) Arthur Augustus Calwell (August 28, 1896 - July 8, 1973) Australian politician, was Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. ...


Indigenous Australians could vote in federal elections on the same basis as other electors for the first time in this election following an amendment to the Commonwealth Electoral Act becoming law on 1 November. The amendment enfranchised Indigenous people in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Indigenous voting rights in other states had been in place since 1949. Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 replaced the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 which defined who was allowed to vote in Australian federal elections. ...


Election issues

State aid for non-Government schools

The toilets of St Brigid's; the reason for the 1962 School Strike and the beginning of State Aid to non-Government schools. Health officials requested the installation of three extra toilets at a Goulburn Catholic Primary School. The Catholic church declared they had no money to install the extra toilets. The local community closed down non-Government schools and sent the children to the Government schools. Nearly 1,000 children turned up to be enrolled locally and the state schools were unable to accommodate them.

The election was notable for the issue of State Aid to non-government schools being finally resolved. There was a School Strike in Goulburn, New South Wales in 1962, where Catholic schools were closed and parents sent their children to Government schools. The strike received national attention. The Labor Premier of New South Wales, Robert Heffron, had promised money for science labs at non-Government schools. This promise is said to have been overthrown at the federal level of the Labor Party executive, although policy is in fact made at the Labor Party's Conferences. Menzies called a snap election with State Aid for science blocks and Commonwealth scholarships for students at both Government and non-Government schools as part of his Party's platform. Menzies saw it as an attempt to woo Catholic voters away from the Labor Party which they traditionally supported; the wedge driven through the ALP, and its core constituency took nearly a decade to overcome. Most non-Government schools were Catholic. The Labor Party reduced its representation in the house by 10 seats and suffered a first preference vote swing of -2.43%. The Country Party vote was higher than the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) vote for the first time since 1955; the DLP had evolved from the Catholic wing of the ALP. It is possible that the Liberal Party probably would have won regardless of the Liberals' decision on State Aid.[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 677 KB) Summary An education strike in 1962 by parents of St Brigids school in Goulburn, New South Wales|Australia resulted in government reform to state aid for non-Government schools. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 677 KB) Summary An education strike in 1962 by parents of St Brigids school in Goulburn, New South Wales|Australia resulted in government reform to state aid for non-Government schools. ... A landmark in Goulburn, the Big Merino Sheep Goulburn () is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... A landmark in Goulburn, the Big Merino Sheep Goulburn () is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... See also: 1961 in Australia, other events of 1962, 1963 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history. ... Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in New South Wales. ... Robert James Heffron (Born, Thames, New Zealand September 10, 1890; Died, Sydney, July 27, 1978) was the Labor Premier of New South Wales from October 28, 1959 to April 30, 1964. ... The National Executive is the highest elected body of the Australian Labor Party, one of the major political parties in Australia. ...


North-west Cape communications facility

Other key issues in the election included the building the North-west Cape communications facility which would support the US nuclear submarine capability. A special federal conference of the ALP was called in March 1963. Labor voted by a narrow margin to support the base. The Left faction was opposed to a foreign base on Australian soil and which supported America's nuclear program.[3] Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt is located on the North West coast of Australia, 6km north of Exmouth, Western Australia. ... There are two major types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines and attack submarines. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


Australian Labor Party National Executive

Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, the North-west Cape communications facility which was built in the 1960s
Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, the North-west Cape communications facility which was built in the 1960s

At the March ALP conference, Arthur Calwell and Gough Whitlam were photographed outside the venue at Kingston in Canberra. Although Calwell was the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives and Whitlam was on the opposition front bench, neither man was a member of the Party's federal executive. Menzies jibed that the ALP was ruled by "36 faceless men" - a jibe that is remembered more than 40 years later.[3] Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (, pronounced Goff), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. ... Categories: Suburbs of Canberra (incomplete) | Suburbs of Canberra ... The National Executive is the highest elected body of the Australian Labor Party, one of the major political parties in Australia. ...


Assassination of US President Kennedy

The week before the election, on 22 November 1963, John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States, was assassinated. It has been suggested that this tragedy helped to consolidate Menzies' position.[4] November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Kennedy Assassination redirects here. ...


References

  • University of WA election results in Australia since 1890
  • AustralianPolitics.com 2PP vote
  • Prior to 1984 the AEC did not undertake a full distribution of preferences for statistical purposes. The stored ballot papers for the 1983 election were put through this process prior to their destruction. Therefore the figures from 1983 onwards show the actual result based on full distribution of preferences.
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