Electoral district of Croydon (New South Wales)
Croydon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1927, with the abolition of proportional representation from part of the multi-member electorate of Western Suburbs, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Croydon. It was abolished in 1959 and partly combined with Ashfield to create Ashfield-Croydon.[1]
Members for Croydon
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Bertram Stevens [2] | Nationalist | 1927–1931 | |
United Australia | 1931–1940 | ||
David Hunter [3] | United Australia | 1940–1945 | |
Liberal | 1945–1959 |
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
1956
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
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | David Hunter | unopposed | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
1947
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
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
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 |
Elections in the 1930s
1938
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
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
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
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
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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- "Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens (1889–1973)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- "Mr David Benjamin Hunter". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- Green, Antony. "1956 Croydon". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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- Green, Antony. "1947 Croydon". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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