Electoral results for the district of Darling Downs (Queensland)

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

Member		Party	Term
	Edward Wienholt	Unaligned	1873–1875
	William Graham	Unaligned	1875–1878

	Party	Term		Party	Term
William Miles	Oppositionist	1878–1887	Francis Kates	Ministerialist	1878–1881
			William Allan	Nationalist	1881–1883
			Francis Kates	Ministerialist	1883–1888
William Allan	Nationalist	1887–1888	Francis Kates	Ministerialist	1883–1888

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Ray Hopper	13,883	59.54	+9.02
	Labor	David Nelson	6,161	26.42	+3.02
	Family First	David Totenhofer	3,273	14.04	+14.04
Total formal votes			23,317	97.94	−0.32
Informal votes			490	2.06	+0.32
Turnout			23,807	93.08	−1.10
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Ray Hopper	15,218	69.14	+1.37
	Labor	David Nelson	6,794	30.86	−1.37
	National hold		Swing	+1.37

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Ray Hopper	11,671	50.5	+11.5
	Labor	Annette Frizzell	5,407	23.4	+2.5
	Independent	Bruce Chalmers	2,448	10.6	+10.6
	One Nation	David Hoy	1,902	8.2	+8.2
	Independent	Kathy Sankey	1,674	7.3	+7.3
Total formal votes			23,102	98.3	−0.0
Informal votes			410	1.7	+0.0
Turnout			23,512	94.2	−0.4
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Ray Hopper	13,329	67.9	+18.9
	Labor	Annette Frizzell	6,338	32.2	+32.2
	National gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

First incarnation (1873–1888)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ray Hopper	9,069	40.0	+40.0
	National	Peter Taylor	8,855	39.1	−5.6
	Labor	John Martin	4,749	20.9	+6.0
Total formal votes			22,673	98.3
Informal votes			400	1.7
Turnout			23,073	94.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Ray Hopper	9,651	51.1	+51.1
	National	Peter Taylor	9,226	48.9	−6.4
	Independent gain from National		Swing	+51.1