COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== DALLEY, NSW ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Annandale, Balmain, Leichhardt, Rozelle -------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 February 1927, following the resignation of William Mahony -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 14.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,729 -03.8 Votes cast: 36,370 89.3 -02.7 Informal votes: 2,517 06.9 +04.8 Formal votes: 33,853 93.1 -04.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Gee Nat 12,667 37.4 +01.5 Hon Edward THEODORE ALP 21,186 62.6 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,853 12.6 01.5 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Granville Theodore (1884-1950): Elected 1927 By Born: 29 May 1884, Adelaide. Career: Primary education. Labourer. To Western Australia goldfields 1900. To Queensland 1910, miner Chillagoe. Union activist, President Queensland Branch, Australian Workers Union 1913. State politics: Qld MLA for Woothakata 1909-12, Chillagoe 1912-25. Treasurer 1915-19, 1922-25, Secretary for Public Works 1915-19, 1922, Premier and Chief Secretary 1919-25, Secretary for Lands 1920 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Theodore had resigned as Premier of Queensland in 1925 to enter federal politics but had failed to win the seat of Herbert, Queensland, at the general election. Like his predecessor as Premier, Thomas Ryan, he was found a NSW seat in the hope that he would become federal ALP leader. In 1928 a Royal Commission found that Mahony had been bribed to resign his seat, probably at the instigation of Theodore, but this was never proved. --------------------------------------------------------------------