Queensland state election, 1960

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28 May 1960 (1960-05-28)

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All 78 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Frank Nicklin	Jack Duggan	Vince Gair
Party	Country/Liberal coalition	Labor	Queensland Labor
Leader since	21 May 1941	18 August 1958 (1958-08-18)	26 April 1957 (1957-04-26)
Leader's seat	Landsborough	Toowoomba West	South Brisbane (lost seat)
Last election	42 seats	20 seats	11 seats
Seats won	46 seats	25 seats	4 seats
Seat change	4	5	7
Percentage	43.53%	39.89%	12.28%
Swing	0.31	11.00	11.12

Premier before election

Frank Nicklin
Country/Liberal coalition

Elected Premier

Frank Nicklin
Country/Liberal coalition

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 established by Labor ahead of the 1950 election.

The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party led by Premier Frank Nicklin, the Liberal Party led by Kenneth Morris, the Australian Labor Party led by Jack Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party led by Vince Gair. 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. Still, it was the first time since 1912 that a non-Labor government had been re-elected in Queensland.

Queensland state election, 28 May 1960
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