Electoral results for the district of Helena

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Helena in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Helena

MemberPartyTerm
  Gordon Hill Labor 1983–1994
  Rhonda Parker Liberal 1994–1996

Election results

Elections in the 1990s

1994 Helena state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rhonda Parker 8,185 46.2 +1.7
Labor Joe Bullock 6,823 38.5 -4.9
Greens Lorraine Johnston 1,256 7.1 +0.7
Independent Mark Schneider 578 3.3 +3.3
Confederate Action Alan Rossiter 366 2.1 +2.1
Independent Ivan Talbot 310 1.8 +1.8
Democratic Republican James Connolly 137 0.8 +0.8
Alfred Bussell 78 0.4 +0.4
Total formal votes 17,733 96.1 +0.3
Informal votes 718 3.9 -0.3
Turnout 18,451 79.9 -14.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Rhonda Parker 9,237 52.1 +2.3
Labor Joe Bullock 8,496 47.9 -2.3
Liberal gain from Labor Swing+2.3
1993 Western Australian state election: Helena[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rhonda Parker 8,712 44.5 +3.5
Labor Gordon Hill 8,480 43.4 -5.7
Greens Christine Heal 1,260 6.4 +6.4
Owen McGrath 1,110 5.7 +5.7
Total formal votes 19,562 95.8 +4.2
Informal votes 846 4.2 -4.2
Turnout 20,408 94.5 +2.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Gordon Hill 9,820 50.2 -2.4
Liberal Rhonda Parker 9,742 49.8 +2.4
Labor hold Swing-2.4

Elections in the 1980s

1989 Western Australian state election: Helena
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gordon Hill 8,738 49.1 -13.2
Liberal Bob Greig 7,302 41.0 +3.3
Grey Power Cecil Morris 1,393 7.8 +7.8
Jack van Tongeren 375 2.1 +2.1
Total formal votes 17,808 91.6
Informal votes 1,634 8.4
Turnout 19,442 92.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Gordon Hill 9,358 52.6 -9.7
Liberal Bob Greig 8,450 47.4 +9.7
Labor hold Swing-9.7
1986 Western Australian state election: Helena
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gordon Hill 12,688 64.5 +0.8
Liberal Beryl Joines 6,986 35.5 -0.8
Total formal votes 19,674 97.1 -0.1
Informal votes 584 2.9 +0.1
Turnout 20,258 92.6 0.0
Labor hold Swing+0.8
1983 Western Australian state election: Helena
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gordon Hill 9,847 63.7
Liberal Marianne McCall 5,620 36.3
Total formal votes 15,467 97.2
Informal votes 447 2.8
Turnout 15,914 92.6
Labor hold Swing

References

  1. Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
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