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Electoral results for the district of Hurstville

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Hurstville, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnation, from 1859 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1968.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1913   Sam Toombs Labor
1917   Thomas Ley Nationalist
 
Election Member Party
1927   Walter Butler Labor
1930
1932   James Webb United Australia
1935
1938
1939 by   Clive Evatt Industrial Labor / Labor
1941   Labor
1944
1947
1950
1953
1956 Labor / Independent
1959   Bill Rigby Labor
1962
1965   Tom Mead Liberal
1968
1971
1973
1976   Kevin Ryan Labor
1978
1981
1984   Guy Yeomans Liberal
1988
1991   Morris Iemma Labor
1995

Election results

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Elections in the 1990s

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1995 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Morris Iemma 18,771 57.1 +8.3
Liberal Mick Frawley 12,759 38.8 -3.3
Independent Saad Turk 1,369 4.2 +4.2
Total formal votes 32,899 93.6 +4.9
Informal votes 2,240 6.4 −4.9
Turnout 35,139 94.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Morris Iemma 19,410 59.6 +5.0
Liberal Mick Frawley 13,131 40.4 -5.0
Labor hold Swing +5.0

1991

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1991 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Morris Iemma 15,141 48.8 +2.3
Liberal Phil White 13,063 42.1 0.0
Independent Tony Wild 1,699 5.5 +5.5
Democrats Paul Terrett 1,140 3.7 +3.7
Total formal votes 31,043 88.7 −7.5
Informal votes 3,962 11.3 +7.5
Turnout 35,005 94.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Morris Iemma 16,382 54.6 +2.8
Liberal Phil White 13,620 45.4 -2.8
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +2.8

Elections in the 1980s

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1988

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1988 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Guy Yeomans 16,226 54.0 +3.6
Labor Robert McClelland 11,315 37.7 -11.9
Independent Joan Loew 2,487 8.3 +8.3
Total formal votes 30,028 97.3 −0.4
Informal votes 820 2.7 +0.4
Turnout 30,848 94.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Guy Yeomans 16,766 56.6 +6.2
Labor Robert McClelland 12,831 43.4 -6.2
Liberal hold Swing +6.2

1984

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1984 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Guy Yeomans 14,427 50.9 +11.7
Labor Kevin Ryan 13,896 49.1 -8.2
Total formal votes 28,323 97.7 +0.3
Informal votes 657 2.3 −0.3
Turnout 28,980 93.3 +1.6
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +10.1

1981

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1981 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Kevin Ryan 16,053 57.3 -6.4
Liberal Frederick Harvison 10,990 39.2 +2.9
Democrats Frank Low 982 3.5 +3.5
Total formal votes 28,025 97.4
Informal votes 749 2.6
Turnout 28,774 91.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Kevin Ryan 16,353 59.2 -4.5
Liberal Frederick Harvison 11,290 40.8 +4.5
Labor hold Swing -4.5

Elections in the 1970s

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1978

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1978 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Kevin Ryan 19,296 63.7 +15.1
Liberal Ian Brown 10,984 36.3 -12.5
Total formal votes 30,280 98.1 −0.7
Informal votes 593 1.9 +0.7
Turnout 30,873 93.5 −0.1
Labor hold Swing +13.6

1976

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1976 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Mead 14,920 48.8 +0.1
Labor Kevin Ryan 14,855 48.6 +6.1
Australia Bernhard Fiegel 791 2.6 +2.6
Total formal votes 30,566 98.8 +0.7
Informal votes 382 1.2 −0.7
Turnout 30,948 93.6 −0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Kevin Ryan 15,305 50.1 +3.2
Liberal Tom Mead 15,261 49.9 -3.2
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.2

1973

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1973 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Mead 14,228 48.7 +1.3
Labor Kevin Ryan 12,398 42.5 +2.0
Independent Paul Flottmann 1,761 6.0 +6.0
Democratic Labor Anthony Young 821 2.8 -2.5
Total formal votes 29,208 98.1
Informal votes 558 1.9
Turnout 29,766 94.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Mead 15,504 53.1 +0.3
Labor Kevin Ryan 13,704 46.9 -0.3
Liberal hold Swing +0.3

1971

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1971 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Mead 12,653 47.4 -5.2
Labor Kenneth Hallen 10,810 40.5 -2.3
Democratic Labor Peter Abrams 1,419 5.3 +0.6
Defence of Government Schools Judith Sainsbury 964 3.6 +3.6
Australia Ralph Catts 873 3.3 +3.3
Total formal votes 26,719 97.5
Informal votes 673 2.5
Turnout 27,392 95.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Mead 14,115 52.8 -3.2
Labor Kenneth Hallen 12,604 47.2 +3.2
Liberal hold Swing -3.2

Elections in the 1960s

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1968

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1968 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tom Mead 14,034 49.6 +2.7
Labor Bill Rigby 12,951 45.8 -2.9
Democratic Labor Kevin Davis 1,322 4.7 +0.3
Total formal votes 28,307 97.7
Informal votes 669 2.3
Turnout 28,976 95.1
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Mead 15,178 53.6 +3.0
Labor Bill Rigby 13,129 46.4 -3.0
Liberal hold Swing +3.0

1965

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1965 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Rigby 11,883 48.7 −3.7
Liberal Tom Mead 11,427 46.9 +4.2
Democratic Labor Kevin Davis 1,068 4.4 +2.4
Total formal votes 24,378 98.2 −0.3
Informal votes 456 1.8 +0.3
Turnout 24,834 94.4 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Tom Mead 12,334 50.6 +5.9
Labor Bill Rigby 12,044 49.4 −5.9
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +5.9

1962

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1962 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Rigby 12,796 52.4 +21.2
Liberal Richard Hawkins 10,257 42.0 +4.0
Independent Thomas Dalton 893 3.7 +3.7
Democratic Labor Thomas Brosnan 478 2.0 +2.0
Total formal votes 24,424 98.5
Informal votes 380 1.5
Turnout 24,804 94.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bill Rigby 13,517 55.3 +1.5
Liberal Richard Hawkins 10,907 44.7 −1.5
Labor hold Swing +1.5

Elections in the 1950s

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1959

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1959 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hedley Mallard 9,359 38.0
Labor Bill Rigby 7,680 31.2
Independent Clive Evatt (defeated) 7,193 29.2
Independent Edward Merryfull 378 1.5
Total formal votes 24,610 98.5
Informal votes 378 1.5
Turnout 24,988 95.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bill Rigby 13,244 53.8
Liberal Hedley Mallard 11,366 46.2
Labor hold Swing
The sitting member was Clive Evatt was expelled from Labor on 13 July 1956 and sat as an Independent.

1956

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1956 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 11,459 51.4 −7.2
Liberal Hedley Mallard 9,982 44.8 +3.4
Independent Edward Merryfull 835 3.8 +3.8
Total formal votes 22,276 98.7 +0.5
Informal votes 300 1.3 −0.5
Turnout 22,576 94.8 −0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Clive Evatt 11,876 53.3 −5.3
Liberal Hedley Mallard 10,400 46.7 +5.3
Labor hold Swing −5.3

1953

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1953 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 13,187 58.6
Liberal Bill Arthur 9,317 41.4
Total formal votes 22,504 98.2
Informal votes 404 1.8
Turnout 22,908 95.1
Labor hold Swing

1950

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1950 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 12,240 53.8
Liberal Leslie Webster 10,506 46.2
Total formal votes 22,746 98.7
Informal votes 308 1.3
Turnout 23,054 94.5
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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1947

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1947 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 15,069 57.1 -9.5
Liberal Leslie Webster 11,310 42.9 +9.5
Total formal votes 26,379 98.7 +2.1
Informal votes 350 1.3 −2.1
Turnout 26,729 96.3 +1.6
Labor hold Swing -9.5

1944

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1944 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 15,663 66.6 -1.1
Democratic Percy Macpherson 7,846 33.4 +1.1
Total formal votes 23,509 96.6 −1.8
Informal votes 824 3.4 +1.8
Turnout 24,333 94.7 −0.4
Labor hold Swing -1.1

1941

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1941 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clive Evatt 14,764 67.7
United Australia Roland Murray 7,042 32.3
Total formal votes 21,806 98.4
Informal votes 354 1.6
Turnout 22,160 95.1
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

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1939 by-election

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1939 Hurstville by-election
Saturday 18 March [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Industrial Labor Clive Evatt 7,017 33.8
United Australia Alfred Thomas 7,925 38.1 -18.0
Labor John McGrath 5,852 28.1 -15.8
Total formal votes 20,794 98.5 +0.6
Informal votes 309 1.5 −0.6
Turnout 21,103 93.9 −3.2
Two-party-preferred result
Industrial Labor Clive Evatt 12,168 58.5
United Australia Alfred Thomas 8,626 41.5 -14.6
Industrial Labor gain from United Australia Swing N/A
James Webb (United Australia) died.[23]

1938

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Webb 11,493 56.1 +5.8
Labor Michael Croot 8,983 43.9 -2.5
Total formal votes 20,476 97.9 −0.3
Informal votes 440 2.1 +0.3
Turnout 20,916 97.1 −0.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A

1935

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1935 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Webb 9,587 50.3 -1.3
Labor (NSW) Walter Butler 8,840 46.4 +3.5
Federal Labor Richard Bramston 616 3.2 -1.4
Total formal votes 19,043 98.2 −0.5
Informal votes 345 1.8 +0.5
Turnout 19,388 97.5 −0.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932

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1932 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Webb 9,744 51.6 +15.6
Labor (NSW) Walter Butler 8,093 42.9 -20.3
Federal Labor Gertrude Melville 873 4.6 +4.6
Communist James Stubbs 154 0.8 +0.1
Total formal votes 18,864 98.7 +0.5
Informal votes 247 1.3 −0.5
Turnout 19,111 97.9 +1.6
United Australia gain from Labor (NSW) Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930

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1930 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Walter Butler 11,511 63.2
Nationalist James Webb 6,561 36.0
Communist William Wright 132 0.7
Total formal votes 18,204 98.2
Informal votes 342 1.8
Turnout 18,546 96.3
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1927

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1927 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist John Nield 6,910 48.4
Labor Walter Butler 6,908 48.4
Independent Walter Anderson 429 3.0
Independent William Hodge 41 0.3
Total formal votes 14,288 98.9
Informal votes 153 1.1
Turnout 14,441 85.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Walter Butler 7,039 50.1
Nationalist John Nield 7,002 49.9
Labor win (new seat)

Elections in the 1910s

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1917

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1917 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Thomas Ley 7,904 59.4 +10.0
Labor Sam Toombs 5,395 40.6 -5.8
Total formal votes 13,299 99.2 +1.5
Informal votes 111 0.8 −1.5
Turnout 13,410 68.2 −4.1
Nationalist gain from Labor Swing +11.0

1913

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1913 New South Wales state election: Hurstville[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Varney Parkes 4,962 49.4
Labor Sam Toombs 4,656 46.4
National Progressive James Murray 420 4.2
Total formal votes 10,038 97.7
Informal votes 231 2.3
Turnout 10,269 72.3
1913 New South Wales state election: Hurstville - Second Round
Saturday 13 December [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Sam Toombs 5,816 51.6
Liberal Reform Varney Parkes 5,448 48.4
Total formal votes 11,264 99.3
Informal votes 76 0.7
Turnout 11,340 79.9
Labor win (new seat)

References

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