Electoral results for the district of Helena

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

Members for Helena[edit]

Member Party Term
  Gordon Hill Labor 1983–1994
  Rhonda Parker Liberal 1994–1996

Election results[edit]

Elections in the 1990s[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  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.