1931 East Sydney by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of East Sydney on 7 March 1931. This was triggered by the death of Labor MP John West.
The by-election was won by Labor candidate Eddie Ward, who was associated with New South Wales Premier Jack Lang's wing of the party.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Eddie Ward | 19,975 | 54.1 | -14.3 | |
| Nationalist | Lionel Courtenay | 16,333 | 44.2 | +12.6 | |
| Communist | Bill Mountjoy | 611 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
| Total formal votes | 36,919 | 97.2 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,068 | 2.8 | |||
| Turnout | 37,987 | 81.3 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Eddie Ward | 55.7 | -14.3 | ||
| Nationalist | Lionel Courtenay | 44.3 | +14.3 | ||
| Labor hold | Swing | -14.3 | |||
gollark: > I’d rather just have faith and get on with my lifeThis seems like a bizarre attitude, since if you... don't actually have evidence for a god at all... it's really weird for that belief to affect your decisions.
gollark: I'm not sure what you would call them, since "antitheist" is taken for "against belief in god".
gollark: More accurately, you can't prove that god exists, even in a world with said god, for all values of "god".
gollark: Agnostic is "don't know if god or not", not "theism but unsure about exact details".
gollark: I'm in the "there's no proof there's no god but it should probably be treated like any other claim we don't have good evidence for i.e. thought of as false" camp, which probably has a name.
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