Electoral results for the district of Paddington (Queensland)
Appearance
Paddington, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland, was created in 1912 and abolished in 1932.[1]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1912 | John Fihelly | Labor | |
1915 | |||
1918 | |||
1920 | |||
1922 by | Alfred James Jones | Labor | |
1923 | |||
1926 | |||
1929 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1920s
[edit]1929
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Alfred Jones | 3,581 | 71.6 | −1.5 | |
Communist | Fred Paterson | 1,418 | 28.4 | +28.4 | |
Total formal votes | 4,999 | 90.3 | −5.9 | ||
Informal votes | 539 | 9.7 | +5.9 | ||
Turnout | 5,538 | 75.4 | −2.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1926
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Alfred Jones | 4,130 | 73.1 | +8.8 | |
Independent | Grant Hervey | 1,522 | 26.9 | +26.9 | |
Total formal votes | 5,652 | 96.2 | −3.3 | ||
Informal votes | 226 | 3.8 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 5,878 | 77.4 | −5.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1923
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Alfred Jones | 3,750 | 64.3 | +2.7 | |
United | George Tedman | 2,080 | 35.7 | −2.7 | |
Total formal votes | 5,830 | 99.5 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 28 | 0.5 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 5,858 | 83.3 | +5.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +2.7 |
1922 by-election
[edit]1922 Paddington state by-election
1920
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | John Fihelly | 3,717 | 61.6 | +0.7 | |
National Labor | Norm McFadden | 2,317 | 38.4 | +38.4 | |
Total formal votes | 6,034 | 99.0 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 58 | 1.0 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 6,092 | 77.4 | −2.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]1918
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | John Fihelly | 3,554 | 60.9 | −7.5 | |
Independent | John Adamson | 2,280 | 39.1 | +39.1 | |
Total formal votes | 5,834 | 98.5 | +0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 87 | 1.5 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 5,921 | 79.7 | −7.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1915
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | John Fihelly | 3,269 | 68.4 | +10.8 | |
Liberal | George Sweetman | 1,509 | 31.6 | −10.8 | |
Total formal votes | 4,778 | 97.9 | −0.9 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 2.1 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 4,880 | 87.4 | +2.8 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +10.8 |
1912
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Alfred Jones | 3,581 | 71.6 | −1.5 | |
Communist | Fred Paterson | 1,418 | 28.4 | +28.4 | |
Total formal votes | 4,999 | 90.3 | −5.9 | ||
Informal votes | 539 | 9.7 | +5.9 | ||
Turnout | 5,538 | 75.4 | −2.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
References
[edit]- ^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.