Electoral results for the district of North Sydney

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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]

Contents

ElectionMemberParty
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

Elections in the 1950s

1959

1959 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Ray Maher 10,69449.8
Liberal Russell Newton9,51344.3
Democratic Labor Michael Fitzpatrick8994.2
Independent Francis Ferry3771.7
Total formal votes21,48397.6
Informal votes5262.4
Turnout 22,00993.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Ray Maher 11,02651.3
Liberal Russell Newton10,45748.7
Labor hold Swing

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Ray Maher 9,82748.6+16.2
Liberal Peter Murphy9,77148.3+13.4
Communist Bill Wood6373.1+3.1
Total formal votes20,23598.5+1.0
Informal votes3021.5−1.0
Turnout 20,53793.2−0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Ray Maher 10,28150.8−5.2
Liberal Peter Murphy9,95449.2+5.2
Labor hold Swing −5.2

1953

1953 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Trevor Humphries7,37734.9
Labor Ray Maher 6,84232.4
Independent Labor James Geraghty 6,71831.8
Independent Norman Jacobs1870.9
Total formal votes21,12497.5
Informal votes5512.5
Turnout 21,67593.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Ray Maher 11,83756.0
Liberal Trevor Humphries9,28744.0
Labor gain from Independent Labor Swing

1950

1950 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Bjarne Halvorsen8,36741.6
Independent Labor James Geraghty 7,82938.9
Labor Ray Maher 3,92119.5
Total formal votes20,11798.5
Informal votes3011.5
Turnout 20,41893.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Labor James Geraghty 11,35456.4
Liberal Bjarne Halvorsen8,76343.6
Member changed to Independent Labor from Labor Swing N/A
The sitting member was James Geraghty who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an independent labor candidate. [7]

Elections in the 1940s

1947

1947 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor James Geraghty 11,86749.3+3.6
Liberal William Travers11,10546.1+11.9
Communist Bill Wood1,1004.6+4.6
Total formal votes24,07298.6+2.1
Informal votes3321.4−2.1
Turnout 24,40494.7+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Geraghty 12,71752.8−4.5
Liberal William Travers11,35547.2+4.5
Labor hold Swing −4.5

1944

1944 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor James Geraghty 9,84445.7+1.7
Democratic William Harding7,35834.2−9.9
Lang Labor Ainslie Beecraft3,09514.4+14.4
Liberal Democratic Ebenezer Minnis1,2445.8+5.8
Total formal votes21,54196.5−1.6
Informal votes7823.5+1.6
Turnout 22,32394.6+2.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Geraghty 12,33357.3+3.4
Democratic William Harding9,20842.7−3.4
Labor hold Swing +3.4

1941

1941 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 9,11244.1
Labor James Geraghty 9,09044.0
State Labor William Wilson2,44811.9
Total formal votes20,65098.1
Informal votes3991.9
Turnout 21,04992.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Geraghty 11,12253.9
United Australia Hubert Primrose 9,52846.1
Labor gain from United Australia Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938

1938 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 10,83658.5+2.9
Labor Henry Clayden7,69241.5+4.4
Total formal votes18,52897.9+0.4
Informal votes3992.1−0.4
Turnout 18,92794.7−1.7
United Australia hold Swing N/A

1935

1935 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 9,77355.6−3.0
Labor (NSW) Ben Howe 6,51837.1+1.4
Ind. United Australia Leslie Dare7364.2+4.2
Federal Labor Thomas Lavelle 5373.1−0.1
Total formal votes17,56497.5−0.4
Informal votes4482.5+0.4
Turnout 18,01296.4+0.1
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932

1932 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 9,94358.6+12.7
Labor (NSW) Ben Howe 6,05235.7−16.4
Federal Labor Cecil Murphy 5443.2+3.2
Independent Lucy Gullett 3322.0+2.0
Independent Edward Clark 890.5+0.5
Total formal votes16,96097.9+1.1
Informal votes3672.1−1.1
Turnout 17,32796.3+2.3
United Australia gain from Labor (NSW) Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930

1930 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Ben Howe 8,73952.1
Nationalist Ernest Marks (defeated)7,69645.9
Independent Alfred Waterhouse2521.5
Communist John Loughran450.3
Independent Thomas Taprell320.2
Total formal votes16,76496.8
Informal votes5623.2
Turnout 17,32694.0
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nationalist Ernest Marks 6,70453.2
Labor Ben Howe 5,85046.4
Independent Harry Meatheringham430.3
Total formal votes12,59798.9
Informal votes1441.1
Turnout 12,74179.6
Nationalist win(new seat)

References

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