COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== WENTWORTH, NSW ==================================================================== Suburban Sydney: Darlinghurst, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Woollahra -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 December 1956, following the resignation of Rt Hon Sir Eric Harrison. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 majority: Liberal over Independent 22.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 42,909 -01.5 Votes cast: 34,985 81.5 -10.8 Informal votes: 1,167 03.3 +00.1 Formal votes: 33,818 96.7 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald Bartley 4,109 12.2 Leslie Bury + Lib 13,956 41.3 -30.7 Alan Laing 1,414 04.2 Reginald Robson 6,414 19.0 Cecil Sindel 1,470 04.3 Thomas Starr ALP 6,455 19.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,818 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartley, Laing and Robson were independent Liberal candidates. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Laing's 1,414 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartley 158 11.2 4,267 12.6 Bury 356 25.2 14,312 42.3 Robson 365 25.8 6,779 20.0 Sindel 441 31.2 1,911 05.7 Starr 94 06.6 6,549 19.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,414 33,818 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Sindel's 1,911 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartley 640 33.5 4,907 14.5 Bury 324 17.0 14,636 43.3 Robson 650 34.0 7,429 22.0 Starr 297 15.5 6,846 20.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,911 33,818 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Bartley's 4,907 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bury 2,130 43.4 16,766 49.6 Robson 2,567 52.3 9,996 29.6 Starr 210 04.3 7,056 20.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,907 33,818 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th count: Starr's 7,056 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BURY 694 09.8 17,460 51.6 Robson 6,362 90.2 16,358 48.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,056 33,818 01.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Leslie Harry Ernest Bury (1913-86): Elected 1956 By Born: 25 February 1913, London Career: Educated private school England and Cambridge University. Migrated 1935. Bank officer. Military Service 1939-45. Officer External Affairs Department 1945-51. Executive Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1953-56. Company director. --------------------------------------------------------------------