Electoral results for the district of Neutral Bay

Neutral Bay, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1927 and abolished in 1962.[1][2][3][4]

Election	Member		Party
1927		Reginald Weaver	Nationalist
1930
1931			United Australia
1932
1935
1938
1941
1943			Democratic / Liberal
1945 by		Ivan Black	Liberal
1947
1950
1951 by
1953
1956
1959

Election results

1959

1959 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	unopposed
	Liberal hold		Swing

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	15,585	74.9	−25.1
	Labor	Donald Gray	5,228	25.1	+25.1
Total formal votes			20,813	98.4
Informal votes			330	1.6
Turnout			21,143	91.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

1953

1953 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	unopposed
	Liberal hold		Swing

1951 by-election

1951 Neutral Bay by-election
Monday 21 May [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	unopposed
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

1950

1950 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	13,791	72.8
	Labor	Frank McCullum	5,161	27.2
Total formal votes			18,952	98.6
Informal votes			264	1.4
Turnout			19,216	91.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

1947

1947 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	17,349	72.2	+15.3
	Independent	Jack Prior	6,670	27.8	+27.8
Total formal votes			24,019	98.6	+1.0
Informal votes			348	1.4	-1.0
Turnout			24,367	93.8	+3.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

1945 by-election

1945 Neutral Bay by-election [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivan Black	10,839	56.36
	Independent	Kenneth Bolton	8,393	43.64
Total formal votes			19,232	74.30
Informal votes			657	3.30
Turnout			19,889	77.60
	Liberal hold		Swing

1944

1944 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Reginald Weaver	12,700	56.9	-43.1
	Labor	George Manuel	6,334	28.4	+28.4
	Liberal Democratic	James Rolle	3,285	14.7	+14.7
Total formal votes			22,319	97.6
Informal votes			538	2.4
Turnout			22,857	90.5
	Democratic hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1941

1941 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Reginald Weaver	unopposed
	United Australia hold		Swing

1938

1938 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Reginald Weaver	unopposed
	United Australia hold

1935

1935 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Reginald Weaver	13,937	88.4	+7.7
	Independent	Peter Pollack	1,825	11.6	+11.6
Total formal votes			15,762	93.5	-4.8
Informal votes			1,092	6.5	+4.8
Turnout			16,854	94.2	-2.4
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

1932

1932 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Reginald Weaver	12,845	80.7	+15.3
	Labor (NSW)	William McMullen	3,072	19.3	-8.4
Total formal votes			15,917	98.3	-0.5
Informal votes			276	1.7	+0.5
Turnout			16,193	96.6	+3.4
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

1930

1930 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Reginald Weaver	10,401	65.4
	Labor	John Green	4,404	27.7
	Australian	Raymond Sullivan	1,095	6.9
Total formal votes			15,900	98.8
Informal votes			190	1.2
Turnout			16,090	93.2
	Nationalist hold		Swing

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Reginald Weaver	9,076	69.5
	Independent Labor	Alfred Waterhouse	2,451	18.8
	Ind. Nationalist	Frederick Aarons	1,533	11.7
Total formal votes			13,060	98.6
Informal votes			184	1.4
Turnout			13,244	80.8
	Nationalist win		(new seat)

References

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