Electoral_results_for_the_district_of_Croydon_(New_South_Wales)
Electoral results for the district of Croydon (New South Wales)
Election results for Croydon, New South Wales, Australia
Croydon, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1927 and abolished in 1959.[1][2][3]
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Member | Party | ||
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1927 | Bertram Stevens | Nationalist | |
1930 | |||
1932 | United Australia | ||
1935 | |||
1938 | |||
1940 by | David Hunter | United Australia | |
1941 | |||
1944 | Democratic | ||
1947 | Liberal | ||
1950 | |||
1953 | |||
1956 |
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Elections in the 1950s
1956
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | David Hunter | 11,545 | 61.6 | +6.7 | |
Labor | Frank Zions | 7,185 | 38.4 | −6.7 | |
Total formal votes | 18,730 | 98.8 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 234 | 1.2 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 18,964 | 93.0 | −0.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +6.7 |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1953
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | David Hunter | 10,844 | 54.9 | ||
Labor | Kenneth Guthrie | 8,924 | 45.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 19,768 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 337 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 20,105 | 93.7 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1950
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | David Hunter | unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
Elections in the 1940s
1947
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | David Hunter | 13,838 | 62.5 | +0.5 | |
Labor | Clive Leroy | 8,292 | 37.5 | +37.5 | |
Total formal votes | 22,130 | 98.6 | +3.5 | ||
Informal votes | 307 | 1.4 | -3.5 | ||
Turnout | 22,437 | 93.9 | +3.1 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1944
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | David Hunter | 12,120 | 62.0 | +5.0 | |
Independent | David Knox | 7,433 | 38.0 | +38.0 | |
Total formal votes | 19,553 | 95.1 | -2.1 | ||
Informal votes | 997 | 4.9 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 20,550 | 90.8 | -2.3 | ||
Democratic hold | Swing | N/A |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1941
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | David Hunter | 11,074 | 57.0 | ||
Labor | Daniel Murphy | 8,342 | 43.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 19,416 | 97.2 | |||
Informal votes | 554 | 2.8 | |||
Turnout | 19,970 | 93.1 | |||
United Australia hold | Swing |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1940 by-election
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | George Weir | 6,249 | 38.9 | ||
United Australia | David Hunter | 4,693 | 29.2 | ||
Ind. United Australia | Harold Reed | 3,955 | 24.6 | ||
Ind. United Australia | Bob Hunt | 1,091 | 6.8 | ||
Independent | Robert Woolston | 60 | 0.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,048 | 95.8 | +1.9 | ||
Informal votes | 707 | 4.2 | -1.9 | ||
Turnout | 16,755 | 88.2 | -6.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
United Australia | David Hunter | 9,003 | 56.1 | -13.5 | |
Labor | George Weir | 7,045 | 43.9 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | -13.5 |
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This section is an excerpt from 1940 Croydon state by-election § Result.[edit]
The by-election was caused by the resignation of Bertram Stevens (United Australia), to contest the federal seat of Lang at the 1940 election.[10]
Elections in the 1930s
1938
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Bertram Stevens | 11,765 | 69.6 | +5.1 | |
Independent | Garry Gordon | 5,142 | 30.4 | +30.4 | |
Total formal votes | 16,907 | 93.9 | -4.5 | ||
Informal votes | 1,104 | 6.1 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 18,011 | 94.7 | -1.2 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1935
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Bertram Stevens | 11,058 | 64.5 | -5.9 | |
Labor (NSW) | Archibald Pattinson | 4,083 | 23.8 | -5.8 | |
Social Credit | Harold Bondeson | 1,996 | 11.7 | +11.7 | |
Total formal votes | 17,137 | 98.4 | -0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 282 | 1.6 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 17,419 | 95.9 | +0.6 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | N/A |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
- Preferences were not distributed.
1932
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United Australia | Bertram Stevens | 11,962 | 70.4 | +20.8 | |
Labor (NSW) | John Eldridge | 5,031 | 29.6 | -10.1 | |
Total formal votes | 16,993 | 98.9 | +0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 195 | 1.1 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 17,188 | 95.3 | +2.0 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | +16.0 |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1930
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Bertram Stevens | 8,204 | 49.6 | ||
Labor | Cecil Newsome | 6,564 | 39.7 | ||
Australian | Raymond Ritchie | 1,683 | 10.2 | ||
Communist | Samuel Aarons | 96 | 0.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,547 | 98.1 | |||
Informal votes | 323 | 1.9 | |||
Turnout | 16,870 | 93.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Nationalist | Bertram Stevens | 9,006 | 54.4 | ||
Labor | Cecil Newsome | 7,541 | 45.6 | ||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
Elections in the 1920s
1927
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nationalist | Bertram Stevens | 10,019 | 66.4 | ||
Labor | Ernest Cook | 5,058 | 33.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 15,077 | 99.0 | |||
Informal votes | 159 | 1.0 | |||
Turnout | 15,236 | 83.2 | |||
Nationalist win | (new seat) |
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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
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