Electoral results for the district of Bondi

Bondi, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales has had two incarnations, from 1913 to 1920 and from 1927 until 1971.[1][2][3]

First incarnation (1913–1920)
Election Member Party
1913   James Macarthur-Onslow Liberal Reform
1917   Nationalist
Second incarnation (1927–1971)
Election Member Party
1927   Harold Jaques Nationalist
1930   Abe Landa Labor
1932   Norman Thomas United Australia
1935
1938
1941   Abe Landa Labor
1944
1947
1950
1953
1956
1959
1962
1965
1965 by   Syd Einfeld Labor
1968

Election results edit

Elections in the 1960s edit

1968 edit

1968 New South Wales state election: Bondi[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Syd Einfeld 12,054 54.8 +2.9
Liberal James Markham 9,938 45.2 -2.9
Total formal votes 21,992 97.0
Informal votes 689 3.0
Turnout 22,681 93.0
Labor hold Swing +2.9

1965 by-election edit

1965 Bondi by-election
Saturday 6 November [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Syd Einfeld 10,110 49.9 -3.7
Liberal John Barraclough 9,579 47.3 +0.9
Democratic Labor William Slowgrove 493 2.4
Independent Albert Rietschel 76 0.4
Total formal votes 20,258 96.5 -1.3
Informal votes 732 3.5 +1.3
Turnout 20,990 86.8 -5.5
After distribution of preferences
Labor Syd Einfeld 10,167 50.2
Liberal John Barraclough 9,588 47.3
Democratic Labor William Slowgrove 503 2.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

1965 edit

1965 New South Wales state election: Bondi[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 11,978 53.6 −5.6
Liberal John Barraclough 10,356 46.4 +5.6
Total formal votes 22,334 97.8 −0.7
Informal votes 492 2.2 +0.7
Turnout 22,826 92.3 −0.4
Labor hold Swing −5.6

1962 edit

1962 New South Wales state election: Bondi[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 13,898 59.2 +5.8
Liberal Carl Jeppesen 9,575 40.8 −1.6
Total formal votes 23,473 98.5
Informal votes 363 1.5
Turnout 23,836 92.7
Labor hold Swing +5.2

Elections in the 1950s edit

1959 edit

1959 New South Wales state election: Bondi[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 10,713 50.4
Liberal Carl Jeppesen 9,660 45.4
Democratic Labor Charles Massey 881 4.2
Total formal votes 21,254 98.0
Informal votes 429 2.0
Turnout 21,683 93.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Abe Landa 10,889 51.2
Liberal Carl Jeppesen 10,365 48.8
Labor hold Swing

1956 edit

1956 New South Wales state election: Bondi[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 11,263 54.6 −5.0
Liberal Daniel Sutherland 9,360 45.4 +5.0
Total formal votes 20,623 98.3 +0.3
Informal votes 353 1.7 −0.3
Turnout 20,976 92.9 −0.4
Labor hold Swing −5.0

1953 edit

1953 New South Wales state election: Bondi[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 12,904 59.6
Liberal Leslie Fingleton 8,757 40.4
Total formal votes 21,661 98.0
Informal votes 446 2.0
Turnout 22,107 93.3
Labor hold Swing

1950 edit

1950 New South Wales state election: Bondi[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 12,179 52.0
Liberal Keith Weekes 11,255 48.0
Total formal votes 23,434 98.7
Informal votes 314 1.3
Turnout 23,748 92.4
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s edit

1947 edit

1947 New South Wales state election: Bondi[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 12,148 49.2 +5.6
Liberal William McNally 10,488 42.4 +12.6
Lang Labor Elizabeth Frewin 2,080 8.4 -6.4
Total formal votes 24,716 98.2 +3.1
Informal votes 442 1.8 -3.1
Turnout 25,158 93.5 +0.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Abe Landa 13,454 54.4 +3.3
Liberal William McNally 11,262 45.6 -3.3
Labor hold Swing +3.3

1944 edit

1944 New South Wales state election: Bondi[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 9,521 43.6 -1.5
Democratic Frank Browne 6,505 29.8 -14.4
Lang Labor Leslie Hallett 3,241 14.8 +14.8
Liberal Democratic Alexander Stewart 2,465 11.3 +11.3
Independent Labor Alfred Rosen 126 0.6 +0.6
Total formal votes 21,858 95.1 -3.4
Informal votes 1,116 4.9 +3.4
Turnout 22,974 92.6 +1.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Abe Landa 11,164 51.1 -3.1
Democratic Frank Browne 10,694 48.9 +3.1
Labor hold Swing -3.1

1941 edit

1941 New South Wales state election: Bondi[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 9,577 45.1
United Australia Norman Thomas 9,373 44.2
State Labor Allan Jenkins 2,267 10.7
Total formal votes 21,217 98.5
Informal votes 327 1.5
Turnout 21,544 91.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Abe Landa 11,492 54.2
United Australia Norman Thomas 9,725 45.8
Labor gain from United Australia Swing

Elections in the 1930s edit

1938 edit

1938 New South Wales state election: Bondi[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Norman Thomas 12,223 52.3 -11.5
Labor Henry Collins 5,946 25.4 -10.8
Independent Thomas Hogan 4,357 18.6 +18.6
Independent Richard Brown 851 3.6 +3.6
Total formal votes 23,377 98.0 -0.3
Informal votes 474 2.0 +0.3
Turnout 23,851 95.8 -0.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1935 edit

1935 New South Wales state election: Bondi[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Norman Thomas 12,978 63.8 +1.6
Labor (NSW) Jack Fitzpatrick 7,374 36.2 +3.7
Total formal votes 20,352 98.3 +0.3
Informal votes 346 1.7 -0.3
Turnout 20,698 96.0 -0.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A

1932 edit

1932 New South Wales state election: Bondi[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Norman Thomas 12,132 62.2 +19.4
Labor (NSW) Abe Landa 6,330 32.5 -15.0
Federal Labor James Buckingham 684 3.5 +3.5
Womens Grace Scobie 233 1.2 +1.2
Communist Archibald Smith 109 0.6 +0.6
Total formal votes 19,488 98.0 -0.7
Informal votes 387 2.0 +0.7
Turnout 19,875 96.2 +3.8
United Australia gain from Labor (NSW) Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930 edit

1930 New South Wales state election: Bondi[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Abe Landa 8,725 47.5
Nationalist Harold Jaques (defeated) 7,859 42.8
Australian Ashton Kurts 1,795 9.8
Total formal votes 18,379 98.7
Informal votes 242 1.3
Turnout 18,621 92.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Abe Landa 9,592 52.2
Nationalist Harold Jaques 8,787 47.8
Labor gain from Ind. Nationalist Swing
Sitting member Harold Jaques had won the 1927 election as an independent nationalist but rejoined the Nationalist party.

Elections in the 1920s edit

1927 edit

1927 New South Wales state election: Bondi[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Nationalist Harold Jaques 7,692 53.5
Nationalist Millicent Preston-Stanley (defeated) 3,408 23.7
Labor Susan Francis 3,278 22.8
Total formal votes 14,378 97.9
Informal votes 310 2.1
Turnout 14,688 84.8
Ind. Nationalist win (new seat)
Both Harold Jaques and Millicent Preston-Stanley were Nationalist members for Eastern Suburbs and Preston-Stanley won Nationalist pre-selection. Jaques re-joined the Nationalist party after the election.

District recreated

1920 - 1927 edit

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s edit

1917 edit

1913 edit

1913 New South Wales state election: Bondi[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform James Macarthur-Onslow 4,567 55.7
Labor George Moxon 1,995 24.3
Independent Liberal Frank Farnell 1,638 20.0
Total formal votes 8,200 98.2
Informal votes 146 1.8
Turnout 8,346 63.7
Liberal Reform win (new seat)

References edit

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