Nominations: Friday, 21 August 1959, Polling: Saturday, 12 September 1959
Multiple party endorsement, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Campbell, Clyde John
Country Party
2,575
16.05
Compton, Keith Clive (Elected)
Labor Party
7,563
47.15
8,312
51.82
Easter, Jack Stuart (Defeated)
Country Party
5,903
36.80
7,729
48.18
Formal Votes
16,041
Informal Votes
89
0.55
Total Votes / Turnout
16,130
92.40
Cause Category: Court Decision
Notes: Caused by a Court of Disputed Returns judgment following the two vote victory of Jack Easter at the 1959 state election. While he contested the state election as an Independent, C.J.Campbell was endorsed as a second Country Party candidate for the by-election. Rivalry between the competing Country party candidates, who represented different parts of the electorate, produced a leakage of preferences sufficient to elect Labor's Keith Compton.