Elections were held in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state

States and territories of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a union of six states and various territories. The Australian mainland is made up of five states and three territories, with the sixth state of Tasmania being made up of islands. In addition there are six island territories, known as external territories, and a...

 of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 on 7 March 1953 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

. The Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 government was seeking its eighth continuous term in office since the 1932 election

Queensland state election, 1932

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 June 1932 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The election was the first electoral test of the Country and Progressive National Party government led by Arthur Edward Moore, and was held in the midst of the Great...

. It was the first electoral test for Vince Gair

Vince Gair

Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...

, who had become Premier of Queensland 14 months earlier after the death of Ned Hanlon.

Key dates

Date	Event
6 February 1953	The Parliament was dissolved.
6 February 1953	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
13 February 1953	Close of nominations.
7 March 1953	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
16 March 1953	The Gair Ministry Gair Ministry The Gair Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier Vince Gair. It succeeded the Hanlon Ministry on 17 January 1952 following Ned Hanlon's death two days earlier...  was reconstituted.
5 June 1953	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
4 August 1953	Parliament was summoned for business.

Results

The result was a considerable swing to the Labor government.
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737,579 electors were enrolled to vote at the election; however, 11 seats (14.7% of the total) were uncontested, eight of them Labor-held seats representing 49,466 enrolled voters, as well as two Country seats representing 20,053 voters and one Liberal seat representing 10,711 voters.

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1953, as elected at the 1950 state election. The election followed a redistribution which created 15 new seats in the Assembly.-References:...
  
  
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1953–1956
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1953–1956
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1956, as elected at the 1953 state election:-See also:*Queensland state election, 1953*Gair Ministry -References:...
  
  
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1953
  Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1953
  This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1953 Queensland state election. The election was held on 7 March 1953.The main parties in the election were the Labor Party, led by Premier Vince Gair, the Country Party, led by Leader of the Opposition Frank Nicklin, and the Liberal Party, led by...
  
  
• Gair Ministry
  Gair Ministry
  The Gair Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier Vince Gair. It succeeded the Hanlon Ministry on 17 January 1952 following Ned Hanlon's death two days earlier...