1960 Hunter by-election

April 2024 April 2022 A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Hunter on 9 April 1960. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor MP and former Opposition Leader H. V. Evatt. A by-election for the seat of La Trobe was held on the same day. The seat was won by Labor candidate Bert James, the son of Evatt's predecessor Rowley James. The governing Liberal Party did not field a candidate, leaving as James' main opposition independent labor candidate Bob Brown, a shop-keeper and councillor on Cessnock City Council. He was apparently not related to the Bob Brown, who would win the seat as the endorsed Labor candidate twenty years later. Results Hunter by-election, 1960By-Elections 1958-1961 Psephos http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1958/hunt1958.txt Bert James Labor 21,978 57.0 -17.4 Bob Brown Independent Labor 11,876 30.8 +30.8 Charles Dumbrell Communist 3,895 10.1 +10.1 Keith Murinane Independent 826 2.1 +2.1 38,575 97.6 965 2.4 39,540 85.8 Labor Bert James 77.2 -0.3 Independent Labor Bob Brown 32.8 +32.8 Labor -0.3 References Category:1960 elections in Australia Category:New South Wales federal by-elections Category:April 1960 in Australia