Electoral results for the district of Croydon (New South Wales)

Croydon, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1927 and abolished in 1959.[1][2][3]

	Member		Party
1927		Bertram Stevens	Nationalist
1930
1932			United Australia
1935
1938
1940 by		David Hunter	United Australia
1941
1944			Democratic
1947			Liberal
1950
1953
1956

Election results

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: Croydon [4]

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

1953 New South Wales state election: Croydon [5]

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

1950 New South Wales state election: Croydon [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Hunter	unopposed
	Liberal hold

1947

1947 New South Wales state election: Croydon [7]

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

1944 New South Wales state election: Croydon [8]

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

1941 New South Wales state election: Croydon [9]

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

1940 by-election

1940 Croydon by-election
Saturday 7 September [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Weir	6,249	38.9
	United Australia	David Hunter	4,693	29.2
	Independent UAP	Harold Reed	3,955	24.6
	Independent UAP	Bob Hunt	1,091	6.8
	Independent	Robert Woolston	60	0.4
Total formal votes			16,048	95.8	+1.9
Informal votes			707	4.2	-1.9
Turnout			16,755	88.2	-6.5
Two-party-preferred result
	United Australia	David Hunter	9,003	56.1	-13.5
	Labor	George Weir	7,045	43.9
	United Australia hold		Swing	-13.5

The by-election was caused by the resignation of Bertram Stevens (United Australia), to contest the federal seat of Lang at the 1940 election.[10]

1938

1938 New South Wales state election: Croydon [11]

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

1935 New South Wales state election: Croydon [12]

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

1932 New South Wales state election: Croydon [13]

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

1930 New South Wales state election: Croydon [14]

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

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: Croydon [15]

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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