Toowoomba Water Futures referendum – the result ...

A breakdown of the 29 July 2006 referendum result:

Total votes - 52,524
No votes – 32,330 (61.55%)
Yes votes – 19,983 (38.05%)
Informal – 211 (0.40%)

Excluding the informal votes:

No votes – 32,330 (61.8%)
Yes votes – 19,983 (38.2%)

A breakdown of the various polling booths (and voting method options):

1. Centenary Heights State High School
No votes – 1,828 (61.36%)
Yes votes – 1,139 (38.23%)
Informal – 12 (0.40%)

2. Darling Heights State School
No votes – 1,960 (61.65%)
Yes votes – 1,204 (37.87%)
Informal – 15 (0.47%)

3. Drayton State Pre-school
No votes – 629 (64.71%)
Yes votes – 339 (34.88)
Informal – 4 (0.41%)

4. East State School
No votes – 1,108 (48.17%)
Yes votes – 1,181 (51.35%)
Informal – 11 (0.48%)

5. Fairholme College
No votes – 408 (41.01%)
Yes votes – 586 (58.89%)
Informal – 1 (0.10%)

6. Fairview Heights State School
No votes – 697 (71.56%)
Yes votes – 273 (28.03%)
Informal – 4 (0.41%)

7. Gabbinbar State School
No votes – 906 (56.27%)
Yes votes – 702 (43.60%)
Informal – 2 (0.12%)

8. Glenvale State School
No votes – 776 (71.52%)
Yes votes – 308 (28.39%)
Informal – 1 (0.09%)

9. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Hall
No votes – 876 (72.34%)
Yes votes – 329 (27.17%)
Informal – 6 (0.50%)

10. Harlaxton Hall
No votes – 178 (67.94%)
Yes votes – 83 (31.68%)
Informal – 1 (0.38%)

11. Harlaxton State School
No votes – 724 (61.62%)
Yes votes – 444 (37.79%)
Informal – 7 (0.60%)

12. Harristown State High School Assembly Hall
No votes – 1,862 (66.62%)
Yes votes – 919 (32.88%)
Informal – 14 (0.50%)

13. Holy Name School
No votes – 542 (64.29%)
Yes votes – 300 (35.59%)
Informal – 1 (0.12%)

14. Middle Ridge State School
No votes – 2,086 (60.25%)
Yes votes – 1,370 (39.57%)
Informal – 6 (0.17%)

15. Newtown State School
No votes – 1,801 (65.63%)
Yes votes – 928 (33.82%)
Informal – 15 (0.55%)

16. North State School
No votes – 594 (57.89%)
Yes votes – 426 (41.52%)
Informal – 6 (0.58%)

17. Rangeville State School
No votes – 1,763 (56.56%)
Yes votes – 1,340 (42.99%)
Informal – 14 (0.45%)

18. Rockville State Pre-school
No votes – 764 (70.09%)
Yes votes – 321 (29.45%)
Informal – 5 (0.46%)

19. Sacred Heart School
No votes – 1,618 (69.32%)
Yes votes – 706 (30.25%)
Informal – 10 (0.43%)

20. St John’s Lutheran Church Hall
No votes – 1,495 (73.28%)
Yes votes – 540 (26.47%)
Informal – 5 (0.25%)

21. St Joseph’s College
No votes – 490 (54.57%)
Yes votes – 406 (45.21%)
Informal – 2 (0.22%)

22. St Luke’s Anglican Church Hall
No votes – 768 (54.90%)
Yes votes – 627 (44.82%)
Informal – 4 (0.29%)

23. St Thomas’ Anglican Church Hall
No votes – 726 (60.60%)
Yes votes – 466 (38.90%)
Informal – 6 (0.50%)

24. Trinity Lutheran Church Hall
No votes – 1,028 (60.01%)
Yes votes – 678 (39.58%)
Informal – 7 (0.41%)

25. Westside Christian Church Hall
No votes – 627 (62.89%)
Yes votes – 366 (36.71%)
Informal – 4 (0.40%)

26. Declaration (Postal) Voting
No votes – 1,682 (58.48%)
Yes votes – 1,187 (41.27%)
Informal – 7 (0.24%)

27. Declaration Votes – Section 344 (not on electoral roll)
No votes – 14 (60.87%)
Yes votes – 9 (39.13%)
Informal – 0 (0%)

28. Electoral Visitor Service
No votes – 239 (62.08%)
Yes votes – 144 (37.40%)
Informal – 2 (0.52%)

29. Mobile Polling Booth
No votes – 307 (55.02%)
Yes votes – 236 (42.29%)
Informal – 15 (2.69%)

30. Pre-poll Polling Booth
No votes – 3,711 (61.17%)
Yes votes – 2,332 (38.44%)
Informal – 24 (0.40%)

31. Suppressed Silent Voters
No votes – 123 (56.68%)
Yes votes – 94 (43.32%)
Informal – 0 (0%)

Source - Toowoomba City Council - Referendum Result.

There has been some commentary on the polling booths which returned a majority Yes vote:

East State School
No votes – 1,108 (48.17%)
Yes votes – 1,181 (51.35%)
Informal – 11 (0.48%)

Fairholme College
No votes – 408 (41.01%)
Yes votes – 586 (58.89%)
Informal – 1 (0.10%)

Out of 31 polling booths (or voting method options), only two booths returned a majority Yes vote - with total votes for these two booths (3,295) representing only 6.27% of total votes cast for the referendum.

29 out of 31 of the polling booths (or voting method options) returned a majority No vote.

Mayor Thorley, the people have spoken ...