1941 Sydney City Council election

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1941 Sydney City Council election
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 19376 December 1941 1944  
Turnout< 14,000
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
CRA
ALP
SLP
Party Civic Reform Labor State Labor
Seats won1280

An election was held on 6 December 1941 to elect councillors to the City of Sydney. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in New South Wales, Australia. [1]

Contents

The election saw the Civic Reform Association, which had controlled the council since 1930, re-elected. Suffrage was extended to all adult residents, however turnout was lower than the previous election in 1937. [1] [2]

Campaign

The Sun observed that there was a "mysterious appearance of "illegal" how-to-vote cards in Macquarie Ward" on the day of the election, which saw Civic Reform preference Official Labor over the State Labor Party. [1]

Prior to the election, Fitzroy Ward alderman Arthur McElhone rejoined Civic Reform to contest as an endorsed candidate. [3]

Phillip Ward was uncontested. [1]

Results

Fitzroy

1941 New South Wales local elections: Fitzroy Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Civic Reform Arthur McElhone 1,715
Labor Maurice Curotta701
H. W. Watkins292
P. McDonnell281
K. S. Williams236
E. P. Tressider85
J. Bradley83
H. Alexander56
J. S. Garden43
H. N. Gilmour24
T.C. McGillick18
J. B. Sweeney16
G. Cunningham15
A. P. Richardson12
J. Wright11

Flinders

1941 New South Wales local elections: Flinders Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Tom Shannon 1,021
Labor Dan Minogue 347
Independent Barney McDonnell128
Labor John James Carroll111
D. M. Grant85

Gipps

1941 New South Wales local elections: Gipps Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Civic Reform E. S. Marks1,275
B. C. Walters518
A. J. Buckingham225
Civic Reform Stanley Crick 225
J. McMahon95
G. F. Davis49
K. Ellis33
B. E. Lewis16

Macquarie

1941 New South Wales local elections: Macquarie Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Civic Reform William Neville Harding 1,206
State Labor A. R. Sloss1,005
Labor E. C. Sheiles510
Civic Reform Reg Bartley 135
A. A. Alam100
Civic Reform H. G. Carter50
Civic Reform F. G. Pursell40
M. J. R. Hughes15
F. McCarthy13
J. H. Sydney13
R. McKenzie12
H. J. P. Woodward12
P. W. Kenna5

Phillip

1941 New South Wales local elections: Phillip Ward
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Armstrong unopposed
Labor S. G. Molloyunopposed
Labor Ernest Charles O'Dea unopposed
Labor Paddy Stokes unopposed
Registered electors 19,000

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "City Council Victory In Elections". Trove. The Sun.
  2. "CITIZENS' REFORM ASSOCIATION". The Sydney Morning Herald . 17 March 1928. p. 21 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Ald McElhone may join up. Ald Arthur McElhone, "stormy petrel" of civic politics, may rejoin the Civic Reform Party to contest the next City Council elections as an official candidate". City of Sydney.