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 1 June 1963 to elect the 78 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...

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The major parties contesting the election were the Country Party

National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

 led by Premier Frank Nicklin

Frank Nicklin

Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, KCMG, MM was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, and the first Country Party Premier since 1932.-Early life and career:...

, the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 led by Alan Munro, the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 led by John Duggan and the Queensland Labor Party

Queensland Labor Party

The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 led by Paul Hilton. The Country and Liberal parties governed in coalition.

The Country-Liberal coalition won a third term in office at the election.

Key dates

Date	Event
19 April 1963	The Parliament was dissolved.
19 April 1963	Writs were issued by the Administrator to proceed with an election.
26 April 1963	Close of nominations.
1 June 1963	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
5 July 1963	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
20 August 1960	Parliament resumed for business.

Results

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839,323 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but the Labor-held seat of Burke was not contested.

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1960–1963
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1960–1963
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1960 to 1963, as elected at the 1960 state election. It was conducted on redistributed boundaries based on the Electoral Districts Act 1958, so a number of seats were abolished or created at the election.-References:* Waterson, D.B...
  
  
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1963–1966
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1963–1966
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1963 to 1966, as elected at the 1963 state election:-References:* Waterson, D.B. Biographical register of the Queensland Parliament, 1930-1980 Canberra: ANU Press...
  
  
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1963
  Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1963
  This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1963 Queensland state election. The election was held on 1 June 1963.-By-elections:* On 1 July 1961, Eugene O'Donnell was elected to succeed Edward Davis , who had died on 10 March 1961, as the member for Barcoo.* On 1 July 1961, Ron Camm was elected...
  
  
• Nicklin Ministry
  Nicklin Ministry
  The Nicklin Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Country Party Premier Frank Nicklin. It succeeded the Gair Ministry on 12 August 1957 following the defeat of both Labor and the QLP at the state election held nine days earlier...