1939 Upper Hunter state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Upper Hunter on 7 October 1939 because of the death of Country Party member Malcolm Brown.[1] There were three candidates endorsed by the Country Party.
Dates
Date | Event |
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29 August 1939 | Death of Malcolm Brown.[1] |
11 September 1939 | Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.[2] |
19 September 1939 | Nominations |
7 October 1939 | Polling day |
21 October 1939 | Return of writ |
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | James Russell | 5,470 | 42.5 | ||
Country | D'Arcy Rose | 2,099 | 16.3 | ||
Independent UAP | Augustine Marshall | 2,031 | 15.8 | ||
Country | Arie Dorsman | 1,682 | 13.1 | ||
Country | Marcus Hyndes | 1,596 | 12.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,878 | 96.8 | |||
Informal votes | 433 | 3.3 | |||
Turnout | 13,311 | 90.1 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country | D'Arcy Rose | 6,489 | 50.4 | ||
Labor | James Russell | 6,389 | 49.6 | ||
Country hold | Swing | ||||
gollark: I think people were mostly greedy [REDACTED]ing pigs anyway, to be honest.
gollark: I like arachnocommunism.
gollark: Interesting!
gollark: But I don't think it's very sensible in either the "full state control of the economy" or "communes or something and magically getting along" senses.
gollark: People seem to disagree on how "communism" is actually defined a lot.
See also
References
- "Mr Malcolm Brown (1881-1939)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- "Writ of election: Upper Hunter". New South Wales Government Gazette (138). 11 September 1939. p. 4549. Retrieved 25 November 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- Green, Antony. "1939 Upper Hunter by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
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