COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWELFTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== EAST SYDNEY, NSW ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Darlinghurst, Glenmore, King, Paddington -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 March 1931, following the death of John West -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 18.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 46,700 +15.6 Votes cast: 37,987 81.3 -06.6 Informal votes: 1,068 02.8 -02.4 Formal votes: 36,919 97.2 +02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel Courtenay Nat 16,333 44.2 +12.6 Wilfred Mountjoy CPA 611 01.7 Eddie WARD + ALP 19,975 54.1 -14.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,919 05.7 e 14.3 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Courtenay, see Senate NSW 1934. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward John Ward (1899-1963): Elected 1931 By Born: 7 March 1899, Sydney. Career: Educated state schools. Laborer, boilermaker, clerk. Tramways worker, dismissed for striking. Sydney City Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ward was an endorsed candidate of the NSW ALP, but he campaigned in opposition to the Scullin Government's policies and was not supported by the ALP's federal leaders. As a result he was not admitted to the federal ALP Caucus. This precipitated the split between the NSW ALP and the federal party. Ward voted against the Scullin Government in the censure motion of 26 November 1931. --------------------------------------------------------------------