COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== WARRINGAH, NSW ==================================================================== Suburban Sydney: Manly, Mosman, Narrabeen, Neutral Bay -------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 May 1927, following the resignation of Hon Sir Granville Ryrie -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 30.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 46,870 +00.1 Votes cast: 41,422 88.4 -03.8 Informal votes: 928 02.2 +00.9 Formal votes: 40,494 97.8 -00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Conway ALP 3,159 07.8 W Scott Fell 7,477 18.5 Ambrose O'Gorman ALP 4,285 10.6 Archdale PARKHILL Nat 22,583 55.8 -24.3 Thomas Roberts 2,990 07.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 40,494 19.6 e 10.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fell was NSW MLA for North Shore 1922-27. He was an independent Nationalist candidate. 2. Conway and O'Gorman are both described as ALP candidates. Conway was chosen by the federal executive, O'Gorman by the local branches with the support of NSW Premier Jack Lang. The Labor Daily described O'Gorman as the "endorsed Labor" candidate, while The Sun called Conway the "official Labor" candidate. This dispute prefigured the split between the NSW and federal ALP in 1931. 3. The combined ALP vote was 18.4%, a decline of 1.5% from the 19.9% polled by one ALP candidate in 1925. 4. Roberts was a Constitutionalist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Archdale Parkhill (1879-1947): Elected 1927 By Born: 27 August 1879, Sydney. Career: Educated public schools. Full-time party official from 1902, Liberal then Nationalist. Secretary NSW Nationalist Party 1917-28. --------------------------------------------------------------------