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Election result for Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Willoughby on 25 September 1943. It was triggered by the death of Edward Sanders (United Australia).[1]
Date | Event |
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10 July 1943 | Death of Edward Sanders.[1] |
3 September 1943 | Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.[2] |
10 September 1943 | Day of nomination |
25 September 1943 | Polling day |
11 October 1943 | Return of writ |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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State Labor | William Wood | 6,887 | 36.9 | -3.3 | |
United Australia | George Brain | 4,757 | 25.5 | ||
United Australia | Joseph Bales | 4,074 | 21.8 | ||
Independent | Hugh Milne | 1,768 | 9.5 | ||
Independent | Clarence Faulkner | 479 | 2.6 | ||
Independent Labor | John Osborne | 439 | 2.4 | ||
People's Labor | Augustus Fenwick | 251 | 1.35 | ||
Total formal votes | 18,655 | 97.1 | −1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 557 | 2.9 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 19,212 | 83.2 | −9.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
United Australia | George Brain | 10,279 | 55.1 | -4.7 | |
State Labor | William Wood | 8,376 | 44.9 | +4.7 | |
United Australia hold | Swing | -4.7 |
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