NSW Elections - 1959 Results

1959 Election Totals - Overall Election Results (Explain this table)
Party	Districts	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Labor Party (includes 1 uncontested)	79	79	49	838,836	49.12
Liberal Party (includes 5 uncontested)	67	68	28	603,718	35.35
Country Party (includes 5 uncontested)	23	24	16	148,738	8.71
Communist Party	21	21	..	24,784	1.45
Independents	20	22	1	61,939	3.63
Democratic Labor Party	25	25	..	22,508	1.32
Independent Labor	1	1	..	7,193	0.42
Total Districts (Roll: 2,075,268)	94	240	94	..	0.00
Contested District Totals (Roll: 1,850,675)	83	229	83	1,707,716	94.00
Persons Voting / Turnout	83	229	83	1,707,716	94.00
Informal Votes	..	..	..	31,864	1.83
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 224,593)	11	11	11	..	0.00

There were 83 contested districts and 11 uncontested. Preferences were required in 14 districts, changing the result in 5.

Seats Won by Party
Party	Seats won
Labor Party	Auburn Balmain Bankstown Bathurst Bondi Bulli Burrinjuck Canterbury Castlereagh Cessnock Cobar (Uncontested) Concord (Preferences) Cook's River (See By-elections) Dulwich Hill East Hills Fairfield Goulburn (Preferences) Granville Hamilton Hartley Hurstville (Preferences, Result Changed) Illawarra Kahibah King Kogarah Kurri Kurri (See By-elections) Lake Macquarie Lakemba Leichhardt Liverpool Liverpool Plains (See By-elections) Maroubra Marrickville Merrylands Monaro Mudgee (Preferences) Murrumbidgee (Preferences) Newcastle North Sydney (Preferences) Paddington-Waverley (See By-elections) Parramatta Phillip Randwick Redfern Rockdale (Preferences) Ryde Sturt Sutherland Wollongong-Kembla
Liberal Party	Albury Ashfield-Croydon (Preferences) Blacktown (Preferences) Burwood Collaroy Coogee (Preferences) Cronulla Drummoyne Dubbo (Preferences, Result Changed) Earlwood Eastwood Georges River Gordon (Uncontested) Gosford Hawkesbury Hornsby Lane Cove Maitland Manly Mosman Nepean Neutral Bay (Uncontested) South Coast Vaucluse (Uncontested) Wagga Wagga Willoughby (Uncontested) Wollondilly Woollahra (Uncontested)
Country Party	Armidale Barwon Byron (Uncontested) Casino (Uncontested) Clarence (Uncontested) Gloucester Lismore (See By-elections) Murray Orange Oxley Raleigh (Preferences, Result Changed) Tamworth (Uncontested) Temora (Uncontested) (See By-elections) Tenterfield Upper Hunter (Preferences, Result Changed) Young (Preferences, Result Changed)
Independents	Waratah