COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== EAST SYDNEY, NSW ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Darlinghurst, Glenmore, King, Paddington -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 February 1932, following the death of John Clasby -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1931 two-party majority: UAP over ALP (NSW) 01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 44,630 +02.6 Votes cast: 38,197 85.6 -06.1 Informal votes: 1,018 02.7 -01.1 Formal votes: 37,179 97.3 +01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Lou Cunningham ALP 2,817 07.6 -05.7 William McCall + UAP 16,304 43.9 -00.3 John Miles CPA 597 01.6 Eddie Ward ALPN 17,461 47.0 +04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,179 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Cunningham was member for Gwydir 1919-25 and 1929-31. 2. Ward was member for East Sydney March-December 1931. 3. For McCall, see Martin 1934. 4. The combined ALP and ALP (NSW) vote was 54.6%, a decrease of 1.1% from the combined 55.7% polled by the two parties in 1931. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Miles's 597 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cunningham 101 16.9 2,918 07.8 McCall + 84 14.1 16,388 44.1 Ward 412 69.0 17,873 48.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 597 37,179 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Cunningham's 2,918 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McCall + 2,115 72.5 18,503 49.8 WARD 803 27.5 18,676 50.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,918 37,179 00.2 01.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- The ALP (NSW) majority over the UAP is compared with the UAP majority over the ALP (NSW) in 1931. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward John Ward (1899-1963): Elected 1931 By. Defeated 1931. Elected 1932 By -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ward is the only person to have won two federal by-elections. --------------------------------------------------------------------