1961 Liverpool Plains state by-election

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Liverpool Plains on 26 March 1961 and was triggered by the resignation of Roger Nott (Labor),[1][2] who was the Minister for Agriculture in the Heffron Labor government and accepted an appointment by the Menzies coalition government to be the Administrator of the Northern Territory.[3]

Dates

Date	Event
3 March 1961	Roger Nott resigned.[2]
7 March 1961	Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.[4]
10 March 1961	Nominations
25 March 1961	Polling day
28 April 1961	Return of writ

Result

1961 Liverpool Plains by-election
Saturday 25 March [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Frank O'Keefe	7,312	50.21	+3.05
	Labor	Robert Johnson	7,252	49.79	-1.89
Total formal votes			14,564	98.89	-0.05
Informal votes			163	1.11	+0.05
Turnout			14,727	82.30	-12.43
	Country gain from Labor		Swing	+2.5

See also

References

Green, Antony. "1961 Liverpool Plains by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
"The Hon. Roger Bede Nott (1908–2000)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
"NSW Minister to be NT Administrator". The Canberra Times. 14 February 1961. p. 8. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via Trove.
"Writ of election: Liverpool Plains". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (30). 7 March 1961. p. 671. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via Trove.

By-elections of the 39th New South Wales parliament (1959–1962)
1959	Lismore Cook's River
1960	Kurri Kurri Temora
1961	Paddington-Waverley Liverpool Plains

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