Electoral results for the district of North Sydney
Appearance
North Sydney, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1927 and abolished in 1962.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1927 | Ernest Marks | Nationalist | |
1930 | Ben Howe | Labor | |
1932 | Hubert Primrose | United Australia | |
1935 | |||
1938 | |||
1941 | James Geraghty | Labor | |
1944 | |||
1947 | |||
1950 | Independent Labor | ||
1953 | Ray Maher | Labor | |
1956 | |||
1959 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1950s
[edit]1959
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Ray Maher | 10,694 | 49.8 | ||
Liberal | Russell Newton | 9,513 | 44.3 | ||
Democratic Labor | Michael Fitzpatrick | 899 | 4.2 | ||
Independent | Francis Ferry | 377 | 1.7 | ||
Total formal votes | 21,483 | 97.6 | |||
Informal votes | 526 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 22,009 | 93.1 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ray Maher | 11,026 | 51.3 | ||
Liberal | Russell Newton | 10,457 | 48.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing |
1956
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Ray Maher | 9,827 | 48.6 | +16.2 | |
Liberal | Peter Murphy | 9,771 | 48.3 | +13.4 | |
Communist | Bill Wood | 637 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
Total formal votes | 20,235 | 98.5 | +1.0 | ||
Informal votes | 302 | 1.5 | −1.0 | ||
Turnout | 20,537 | 93.2 | −0.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ray Maher | 10,281 | 50.8 | −5.2 | |
Liberal | Peter Murphy | 9,954 | 49.2 | +5.2 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −5.2 |
1953
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Trevor Humphries | 7,377 | 34.9 | ||
Labor | Ray Maher | 6,842 | 32.4 | ||
Independent Labor | James Geraghty | 6,718 | 31.8 | ||
Independent | Norman Jacobs | 187 | 0.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 21,124 | 97.5 | |||
Informal votes | 551 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | 21,675 | 93.7 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ray Maher | 11,837 | 56.0 | ||
Liberal | Trevor Humphries | 9,287 | 44.0 | ||
Labor gain from Independent Labor | Swing |
1950
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Bjarne Halvorsen | 8,367 | 41.6 | ||
Independent Labor | James Geraghty | 7,829 | 38.9 | ||
Labor | Ray Maher | 3,921 | 19.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 20,117 | 98.5 | |||
Informal votes | 301 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 20,418 | 93.5 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent Labor | James Geraghty | 11,354 | 56.4 | ||
Liberal | Bjarne Halvorsen | 8,763 | 43.6 | ||
Member changed to Independent Labor from Labor | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]1947
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | James Geraghty | 11,867 | 49.3 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | William Travers | 11,105 | 46.1 | +11.9 | |
Communist | Bill Wood | 1,100 | 4.6 | +4.6 | |
Total formal votes | 24,072 | 98.6 | +2.1 | ||
Informal votes | 332 | 1.4 | −2.1 | ||
Turnout | 24,404 | 94.7 | +0.1 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | James Geraghty | 12,717 | 52.8 | −4.5 | |
Liberal | William Travers | 11,355 | 47.2 | +4.5 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −4.5 |
1944
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | James Geraghty | 9,844 | 45.7 | +1.7 | |
Democratic | William Harding | 7,358 | 34.2 | −9.9 | |
Lang Labor | Ainslie Beecraft | 3,095 | 14.4 | +14.4 | |
Liberal Democratic | Ebenezer Minnis | 1,244 | 5.8 | +5.8 | |
Total formal votes | 21,541 | 96.5 | −1.6 | ||
Informal votes | 782 | 3.5 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 22,323 | 94.6 | +2.6 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | James Geraghty | 12,333 | 57.3 | +3.4 | |
Democratic | William Harding | 9,208 | 42.7 | −3.4 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +3.4 |
1941
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Hubert Primrose | 9,112 | 44.1 | ||
Labor | James Geraghty | 9,090 | 44.0 | ||
State Labor | William Wilson | 2,448 | 11.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 20,650 | 98.1 | |||
Informal votes | 399 | 1.9 | |||
Turnout | 21,049 | 92.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | James Geraghty | 11,122 | 53.9 | ||
United Australia | Hubert Primrose | 9,528 | 46.1 | ||
Labor gain from United Australia | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]1938
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Hubert Primrose | 10,836 | 58.5 | +2.9 | |
Labor | Henry Clayden | 7,692 | 41.5 | +4.4 | |
Total formal votes | 18,528 | 97.9 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 399 | 2.1 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 18,927 | 94.7 | −1.7 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
1935
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Hubert Primrose | 9,773 | 55.6 | −3.0 | |
Labor (NSW) | Ben Howe | 6,518 | 37.1 | +1.4 | |
Ind. United Australia | Leslie Dare | 736 | 4.2 | +4.2 | |
Federal Labor | Thomas Lavelle | 537 | 3.1 | −0.1 | |
Total formal votes | 17,564 | 97.5 | −0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 448 | 2.5 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 18,012 | 96.4 | +0.1 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
1932
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Hubert Primrose | 9,943 | 58.6 | +12.7 | |
Labor (NSW) | Ben Howe | 6,052 | 35.7 | −16.4 | |
Federal Labor | Cecil Murphy | 544 | 3.2 | +3.2 | |
Independent | Lucy Gullett | 332 | 2.0 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Edward Clark | 89 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 16,960 | 97.9 | +1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 367 | 2.1 | −1.1 | ||
Turnout | 17,327 | 96.3 | +2.3 | ||
United Australia gain from Labor (NSW) | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
1930
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Ben Howe | 8,739 | 52.1 | ||
Nationalist | Ernest Marks (defeated) | 7,696 | 45.9 | ||
Independent | Alfred Waterhouse | 252 | 1.5 | ||
Communist | John Loughran | 45 | 0.3 | ||
Independent | Thomas Taprell | 32 | 0.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,764 | 96.8 | |||
Informal votes | 562 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 17,326 | 94.0 | |||
Labor gain from Nationalist | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]1927
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Ernest Marks | 6,704 | 53.2 | ||
Labor | Ben Howe | 5,850 | 46.4 | ||
Independent | Harry Meatheringham | 43 | 0.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,597 | 98.9 | |||
Informal votes | 144 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 12,741 | 79.6 | |||
Nationalist win | (new seat) |
References
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- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
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- ^ Green, Antony. "1944 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1941 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1938 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1935 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1932 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1930 North Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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