Electoral results for the district of Croydon (New South Wales)

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]

Member Party
1927   Bertram Stevens Nationalist
1930
1932   United Australia
1935
1938
1940 by   David Hunter United Australia
1941
1944   Democratic
1947   Liberal
1950
1953
1956

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1956

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1956 New South Wales state election: Croydon [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1953

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1953 New South Wales state election: Croydon [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1950

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1950 New South Wales state election: Croydon [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Hunter unopposed
Liberal hold  

Elections in the 1940s

1947

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1947 New South Wales state election: Croydon [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1944

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1944 New South Wales state election: Croydon [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1941

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1941 New South Wales state election: Croydon [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1940 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1940 Croydon state by-election § Result.[edit]
1940 Croydon by-election
Saturday 7 September [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1938 New South Wales state election: Croydon [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1935

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1935 New South Wales state election: Croydon [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1932 New South Wales state election: Croydon [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1930

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1930 New South Wales state election: Croydon [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

Elections in the 1920s

1927

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Croydon.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Croydon [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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)

References

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  3. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
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