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Electoral results for the district of Ascot

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

Members for Ascot

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Member Party Term
  Merv Toms Labor 1968–1971
  Mal Bryce Labor 1971–1988
  Eric Ripper Labor 1988–1989

Election results

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Elections in the 1980s

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1988 Ascot state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Eric Ripper 6,252 48.4 -19.8
Liberal Peter Blaxell 5,188 40.2 +8.4
Independent Cedric Jacobs 732 5.7 +5.7
Independent Amedo Misama 581 4.5 +4.5
Independent Michael Ward 162 1.3 +1.3
Total formal votes 12,915 94.9 −1.5
Informal votes 695 5.1 +1.5
Turnout 13,610 81.8 −10.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Eric Ripper 6,894 53.4 -14.8
Liberal Peter Blaxell 6,021 46.6 +14.8
Labor hold Swing -14.8
1986 Western Australian state election: Ascot[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mal Bryce 10,163 68.2 -1.7
Liberal Robert van Straalen 4,739 31.8 +1.7
Total formal votes 14,902 96.4 −1.0
Informal votes 552 3.6 +1.0
Turnout 15,454 91.8 +3.8
Labor hold Swing -1.7
1983 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mal Bryce 9,733 69.9
Liberal Richard Dalgleish 4,201 30.1
Total formal votes 13,934 97.4
Informal votes 374 2.6
Turnout 14,308 88.0
Labor hold Swing
1980 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mal Bryce 8,184 62.1 +3.1
Liberal Alam Richardson 4,991 37.9 -3.1
Total formal votes 13,175 95.0 −0.8
Informal votes 696 5.0 +0.8
Turnout 13,871 88.5 −2.3
Labor hold Swing +3.1

Elections in the 1970s

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1977 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mal Bryce 7,931 59.0
Liberal John Bamford 5,518 41.0
Total formal votes 13,449 95.8
Informal votes 589 4.2
Turnout 14,038 90.8
Labor hold Swing -7.4
1974 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mal Bryce 8,912 67.2
Liberal Robert Carter 4,345 32.8
Total formal votes 13,257 95.2
Informal votes 663 4.8
Turnout 13,920 90.4
Labor hold Swing
1971 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Merv Toms 9,210 75.8 +12.6
Democratic Labor Albert Ots 2,946 24.2 +24.2
Total formal votes 12,156 93.2 −4.4
Informal votes 885 6.8 +4.4
Turnout 13,041 91.4 −0.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1960s

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1968 Western Australian state election: Ascot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Merv Toms 7,011 63.2
Liberal and Country Douglas Anderson 4,080 36.8
Total formal votes 11,091 97.6
Informal votes 277 2.4
Turnout 11,368 91.6
Labor hold Swing

References

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  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.