COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== GWYDIR, NSW ==================================================================== Northern NSW: Inverell, Moree, Mudgee, Quirindi -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 May 1937, following the resignation of Hon Aubrey Abbott -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1934 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP (NSW) 04.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 54,791 +02.5 Votes cast: 49,476 90.3 -05.0 Informal votes: 639 01.3 -00.6 Formal votes: 48,837 98.7 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Batchelor + CP 13,168 27.0 Oliver Milling + CP 8,155 16.7 Geoffrey Moore + CP 1,963 04.0 William SCULLY ALP 25,551 52.3 +44.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 48,837 04.3 e 08.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The combined Country Party vote was 47.7%, a decrease of 4.8% from the 52.5% polled by one Country Party candidate at the 1934 general election. 2. The ALP vote of 52.3% was an increase of 7.6% from the combined vote of 44.7% polled by the ALP and the ALP (NSW) in 1934. The huge increase in the ALP vote was the result of the reunification of the NSW and federal ALP. 3. The ALP majority over the Country Party is compared with the Country Party majority over the ALP (NSW) at the 1934 general election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William James Scully (1890-1966): Elected 1937 By Born: 1 February 1890, Bective, NSW. Career: No formal education. Grew up on station, farmworker. Road contractor, Tamworth. Horse-owner. Tamworth Council. State politics: NSW MLA for Namoi 1923-32. --------------------------------------------------------------------