COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA EIGHTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== WEST SYDNEY, NSW ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Blackwattle, Gipps, Golden Grove, Toxteth -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 September 1921, following the death of Hon Thomas Ryan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 22.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,620 +03.1 Votes cast: 14,316 45.3 -21.4 Informal votes: 606 04.2 +00.6 Formal votes: 13,710 95.8 -00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Henry Nat 5,237 38.2 +10.4 William LAMBERT + ALP 7,857 57.3 -14.9 Timothy McCristal 430 03.1 John Powell 186 01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 13,710 09.6 e 12.6 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Henry was NSW MLA for Clarence 1931-38. 2. McCristal was an independent Labor candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Lambert (1885-1928): Elected 1921 By Born: 1885, near Orange, NSW. Career: Primary education. Shearer. Official, Australian Workers Union. President, NSW Branch 1917-21. Sydney City Council. Lord Mayor 1920-21. --------------------------------------------------------------------