NSW Elections - 1962 Results

Gloucester - 1962 (Roll: 20,700)
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Final	%
Retained by Country Party
Multiple party endorsement, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion
Barr, Aubrey Ernest	D.L.P.	640	3.26
Borthwick, Alan Max	Country Party	4,576	23.34
Kable, Loris Victor	Labor Party	5,801	29.59	7,040	35.91
Punch, Leon Ashton (Re-elected)	Country Party	8,590	43.81	12,567	64.09
Formal Votes		19,607
Informal Votes		214	1.08
Total Votes / Turnout		19,821	95.75
Notes: The retiring Country Party MP for Gloucester was R.L.Fitzgerald. Leon Punch was the Country Party MP for Upper Hunter, but that seat was contested by Frank O'Keefe after large parts of his abolished seat of Liverpool Plains were transferred to Upper Hunter. Punch contested preselection for Gloucester against A.M.Borthwick, who had contested Gloucester in 1959 as an Independent. Borthwick won the ballot, but Punch appealed to the State Executive claiming irregularities in the vote, and the party eventually resolved the matter by endorsing both Borthwick and Punch for the election.