COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWENTY-EIGHTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== PARRAMATTA, NSW ==================================================================== Suburban Sydney: Dundas, Epping, Ermington, Parramatta -------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 September 1973, following the resignation of Hon Sir Nigel Bowen -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 73,679 +11.4 Votes cast: 65,145 88.4 -07.3 Informal votes: 1,493 02.3 +00.1 Formal votes: 63,652 97.7 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus Aussie-Stone 363 00.6 Edwin Bellchambers 53 00.1 John Butterworth AP 3,522 05.5 +02.0 Michael Hourihan 528 00.8 Leonard Kiernan 30 00.0 Gwenda Lister 65 00.1 Ross May 37 00.1 Sidney McGarrity 325 00.5 Kevin Meares 25 00.0 Marilyn Pye 575 00.9 Philip RUDDOCK Lib 33,506 52.6 +06.6 Barry Wilde ALP 24,623 38.7 -07.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 63,652 07.3 e 07.0 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilde was NSW MLA for Parramatta 1976-88. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Maxwell Ruddock (born 1943): Elected 1973 By Born: 12 March 1943, Canberra Career: Educated University of Sydney. Solicitor. --------------------------------------------------------------------