State election for New South Wales, Australia in March 1959
1959 New South Wales state election
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21 March 1959 (1959-03-21)
1962 →
All 94 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 48 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Joseph Cahill
Pat Morton
Party
Labor
Liberal/Country coalition
Leader since
2 April 1952
20 September 1955
Leader's seat
Cook's River
Mosman
Last election
50 seats
42 seats
Seats won
49
44
Seat change
1
2
Percentage
49.12%
44.06%
Swing
1.87
2.19
Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
Premier before election
Joseph Cahill
Labor
Elected Premier
Joseph Cahill
Labor
The 1959 New South Wales state election was held on 21 March 1959. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1957 redistribution.[1] The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly.
^"1957 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
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