1967 Australian Capital Territory election

1967 Australian Capital Territory election
16 September 1964
All 8 seats on the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council
5 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
TWP
Leader No leader Jim Leedman Alan Fitzgerald
Party Labor Liberal True Whig
Last election 2 0 Did not exist
Seats won 3 2 1
Seat change 1 2 1
Largest party before election

Independents

 Largest party after election

Labor

The 1967 Australian Capital Territory election was held on Saturday 16 September 1967 to elect all eight members of the Advisory Council, the main elected representative body of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

The election was contested by the True Whig Party, a joke party formed by satirist Alan Fitzgerald in 1966. Although standing on a joke platform and promising to "do nothing", Fitzgerald was elected with the third highest primary vote behind Labor and the Liberal Party.

Prior to the election, the ACT Progress and Welfare Council had dissolved, and incumbent member Jim Pead stood as an independent candidate.

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