North Sydney was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. Created in 1927, it replaced part of the multi-member electorate of North Shore, and was named after and included the Sydney suburb of North Sydney. It was abolished in 1962 and partly replaced by Kirribilli.[1]
Member | Party | Period | |
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Ernest Marks [2] | Nationalist | 1927–1930 | |
Ben Howe [3] | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
Hubert Primrose [4] | United Australia | 1932–1941 | |
James Geraghty [5] | Labor | 1941–1950 | |
Independent Labor | 1950–1953 | ||
Ray Maher [6] | Labor | 1953–1962 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Ray Maher | 10,694 | 49.8 | ||
Liberal | Russell Newton | 9,513 | 44.3 | ||
Democratic Labor | Michael Fitzpatrick | 899 | 4.2 | ||
Independent | Francis Ferry | 377 | 1.7 | ||
Total formal votes | 21,483 | 97.6 | |||
Informal votes | 526 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 22,009 | 93.1 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ray Maher | 11,026 | 51.3 | ||
Liberal | Russell Newton | 10,457 | 48.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing |