Electoral results for the district of Western Downs

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Western Downs in Queensland state elections.

Members for Western Downs

First incarnation (1860–1873, two members)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Moffatt	Unaligned	1860–1864		James Taylor	Unaligned	1860–1870
	John Watts	Unaligned	1864–1867
	Robert Ramsay	Unaligned	1867–1873
					Edward Wienholt	Unaligned	1870–1873

Second incarnation (1992–2001, one member)
Member		Party	Term
	Brian Littleproud	National Party	1992–2001

Election results

Elections in the 1990s

1998 Queensland state election: Western Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Brian Littleproud	9,864	48.17	-31.24
	One Nation	Peter McLaren	7,068	34.52	+34.52
	Labor	Ron Lockwood	3,544	17.31	-3.28
Total formal votes			20,476	98.95	+0.19
Informal votes			217	1.05	-0.19
Turnout			20,693	94.34	+0.46
Two-candidate-preferred result
	National	Brian Littleproud	11,428	59.42	-19.99
	One Nation	Peter McLaren	7,805	40.58	+40.58
	National hold		Swing	-19.99

1995 Queensland state election: Western Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Brian Littleproud	16,120	79.41	+12.37
	Labor	Brad Wood	4,180	20.59	+0.50
Total formal votes			20,300	98.76	+0.20
Informal votes			254	1.24	-0.20
Turnout			20,554	93.88	+0.24
	National hold		Swing	+2.79

1992 Queensland state election: Western Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Brian Littleproud	14,060	67.0	-6.1
	Labor	Anne Jones	4,214	20.1	-5.0
	Independent	Lorraine Wheelson	2,435	11.6	+11.6
	Independent	James Clarke	265	1.3	+1.3
Total formal votes			20,974	98.6
Informal votes			307	1.4
Turnout			21,281	93.6
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Brian Littleproud	14,856	76.6	+2.1
	Labor	Anne Jones	4,532	23.4	-2.1
	National hold		Swing	+2.1