Electoral results for the district of Bulli
Appearance
Bulli, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1930 until 1971 and from 1991 until 1999.[1][2][3]
First incarnation (1930–1971) | |||
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Election | Member | Party | |
1930 | Andrew Lysaght | Labor | |
1932 | Labor (NSW) | ||
1933 by | John Sweeney | Labor (NSW) | |
1935 | |||
1938 | Labor | ||
1941 | |||
1944 | |||
1947 | Laurie Kelly | Labor | |
1950 | |||
1953 | |||
1955 by | Rex Jackson | Labor | |
1956 | |||
1959 | |||
1962 | |||
1965 | |||
1968 | |||
Second incarnation (1991–1999) | |||
Election | Member | Party | |
1991 | Ian McManus | Labor | |
1995 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1990s
[edit]1995
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Ian McManus | 18,137 | 50.8 | −1.4 | |
Liberal | Roy Stanton | 11,860 | 33.2 | +2.2 | |
Greens | Steve Allen | 4,193 | 11.7 | +4.0 | |
Call to Australia | Nicole White | 1,544 | 4.3 | +0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 35,734 | 96.2 | +2.2 | ||
Informal votes | 1,421 | 3.8 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 37,155 | 94.8 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ian McManus | 21,006 | 61.3 | −1.9 | |
Liberal | Roy Stanton | 13,263 | 38.7 | +1.9 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −1.9 |
1991
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Ian McManus | 17,189 | 52.2 | +1.6 | |
Liberal | Cheryl Hill | 10,220 | 31.0 | −9.7 | |
Greens | Carole Medcalf | 2,553 | 7.7 | +7.7 | |
Democrats | Greg O'Brien | 1,861 | 5.6 | +1.9 | |
Call to Australia | Colin Scott | 1,132 | 3.4 | +3.4 | |
Total formal votes | 32,955 | 93.9 | −3.1 | ||
Informal votes | 2,131 | 6.1 | +3.1 | ||
Turnout | 35,086 | 94.5 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ian McManus | 19,344 | 63.2 | +6.9 | |
Liberal | Cheryl Hill | 11,263 | 36.8 | −6.9 | |
Labor notional hold | Swing | +6.9 |
District recreated
1971 - 1991
[edit]District abolished
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]1968
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 13,419 | 64.5 | +7.3 | |
Liberal | Ronald White | 7,395 | 35.5 | +6.8 | |
Total formal votes | 20,814 | 97.5 | |||
Informal votes | 541 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | 21,355 | 95.1 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −2.5 |
1965
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 13,654 | 57.2 | −11.1 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 6,847 | 28.7 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Mary Hargrave | 2,388 | 10.0 | +10.0 | |
Communist | Sara Bowen | 988 | 4.1 | −1.0 | |
Total formal votes | 23,877 | 97.9 | −0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 505 | 2.1 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 24,382 | 95.2 | +0.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Rex Jackson | 15,996 | 67.0 | −5.3 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 7,881 | 33.0 | +5.3 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −5.3 |
1962
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 14,424 | 68.2 | +2.5 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 5,636 | 26.7 | −2.7 | |
Communist | Sara Bowen | 1,074 | 5.1 | +0.3 | |
Total formal votes | 21,134 | 98.5 | |||
Informal votes | 316 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 21,450 | 94.5 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Rex Jackson | 15,283 | 72.3 | +2.7 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 5,851 | 27.7 | −2.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +2.7 |
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]1959
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 13,168 | 65.7 | ||
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 5,897 | 29.4 | ||
Communist | Frederick Watson | 965 | 4.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 20,030 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 355 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 20,385 | 94.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Rex Jackson | 13,940 | 69.6 | ||
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 6,090 | 30.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing |
1956
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 11,812 | 60.8 | −27.1 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 6,508 | 33.5 | +33.5 | |
Communist | Bill McDougall | 1,101 | 5.7 | −6.4 | |
Total formal votes | 19,421 | 98.8 | +4.8 | ||
Informal votes | 227 | 1.2 | −4.8 | ||
Turnout | 19,648 | 93.7 | −0.6 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Rex Jackson | 12,803 | 65.9 | −22.0 | |
Liberal | Donald Heggie | 6,618 | 34.1 | +34.1 | |
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1955 by-election
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Rex Jackson | 8,726 | 51.1 | −36.8 | |
Liberal | Lewis Jaratt | 3,811 | 22.3 | ||
Independent Labor | Leslie Strachan | 3,359 | 19.7 | ||
Communist | Leonard Boardman | 1,187 | 7.0 | −5.2 | |
Total formal votes | 17,083 | 98.4 | |||
Informal votes | 276 | 1.6 | |||
Turnout | 17,359 | 85.5 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1953
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Laurie Kelly | 14,480 | 87.9 | ||
Communist | Sara Phipps | 1,994 | 12.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,474 | 94.0 | |||
Informal votes | 1,054 | 6.0 | |||
Turnout | 17,528 | 94.3 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
1950
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Laurie Kelly | 9,963 | 62.0 | ||
Liberal | Leslie Strachan | 4,688 | 29.2 | ||
Communist | John Martin | 1,422 | 8.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 16,073 | 98.5 | |||
Informal votes | 249 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 16,322 | 94.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Laurie Kelly | 69.0 [a] | |||
Liberal | Leslie Strachan | 31.0 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]1947
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Laurie Kelly | 8,517 | 58.5 | +10.1 | |
Independent Labor | Hector MacKay | 3,117 | 21.4 | +21.4 | |
Communist | John Martin | 2,937 | 20.2 | −10.6 | |
Total formal votes | 14,571 | 97.0 | +1.4 | ||
Informal votes | 449 | 3.0 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 15,020 | 95.5 | +3.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
1944
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | John Sweeney | 6,305 | 48.4 | −26.3 | |
Communist | John Martin | 4,016 | 30.8 | +30.8 | |
Independent Labor | Lawrence Baines | 2,049 | 15.7 | +15.7 | |
Independent Labor | Maurice Twomey | 659 | 5.1 | +5.1 | |
Total formal votes | 13,029 | 95.6 | +1.4 | ||
Informal votes | 596 | 4.4 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 13,625 | 92.5 | −0.7 | ||
After distribution of preferences | |||||
Labor | John Sweeney | 6,568 | 50.4 | ||
Communist | John Martin | 4,121 | 31.6 | ||
Independent Labor | Lawrence Baines | 2,340 | 18.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed to completion.
1941
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | John Sweeney | 9,308 | 74.7 | ||
State Labor | Alfred Burgess | 3,157 | 25.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,556 | 94.2 | |||
Informal votes | 676 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 13,232 | 93.0 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]1938
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | John Sweeney | 7,380 | 54.6 | −26.1 | |
Independent | Edward Ryan | 3,413 | 25.2 | +25.2 | |
Communist | Jack Miles | 2,731 | 20.2 | +0.9 | |
Total formal votes | 13,524 | 95.4 | +13.7 | ||
Informal votes | 655 | 4.6 | −13.7 | ||
Turnout | 14,179 | 95.1 | −1.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
1935
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor (NSW) | John Sweeney | 8,382 | 80.7 | +17.9 | |
Communist | Patrick McHenry | 2,002 | 19.3 | +16.0 | |
Total formal votes | 10,384 | 81.7 | −17.1 | ||
Informal votes | 2,323 | 18.3 | +17.1 | ||
Turnout | 12,707 | 96.4 | −0.9 | ||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing | N/A |
1933 by-election
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor (NSW) | John Sweeney | 5,376 | 45.5 | −17.3 | |
United Australia | Arthur Butterell | 3,084 | 26.1 | −4.0 | |
Miners | Albert Willis | 2,783 | 23.5 | ||
Communist | Paul Martin | 586 | 5.0 | +1.7 | |
Total formal votes | 11,829 | 98.9 | +0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 136 | 1.1 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 11,965 | 92.0 | −5.3 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor (NSW) | John Sweeney | 7,734 | 65.4 | ||
United Australia | Arthur Butterell | 4,095 | 34.6 | ||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing | N/A |
1932
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor (NSW) | Andrew Lysaght | 7,590 | 62.8 | −16.4 | |
United Australia | Robert Roberts | 3,634 | 30.1 | +12.2 | |
Federal Labor | Allan Howie | 460 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
Communist | Evred Bostick | 404 | 3.3 | +0.4 | |
Total formal votes | 12,088 | 98.8 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 142 | 1.2 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 12,230 | 97.3 | +2.7 | ||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
1930
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Andrew Lysaght | 9,170 | 79.2 | ||
Nationalist | Edward Holmes | 2,077 | 17.9 | ||
Communist | Evred Bostick | 331 | 2.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 11,578 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 201 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 11,779 | 94.6 | |||
Labor win | (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Two party preferred vote was estimated.
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
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- ^ Green, Antony. "1968 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1965 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1962 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1959 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1956 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1955 Bulli by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1953 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1950 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1947 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1944 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1941 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1938 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1935 Bulli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1933 Bulli by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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