Electoral results for the district of Phillip

This article is about the former New South Wales state electorate. For the Australian federal electorate, see Electoral results for the Division of Phillip.

Phillip, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1904 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1981.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1904   Phillip Sullivan Labour
1907   Richard Meagher Independent
1910   Labor
1913   Labor / Independent Labor
1917   John Doyle Labor
 
Election Member Party
1927   Michael Burke Labor
1930   Tom Shannon Labor
1932   Labor (NSW)
1935
1938   Labor / Labor (N-C)
1941 Labor
1944
1947
1950
1953
1954 by   Pat Hills Labor
1956
1959
1962
1965
1968
1972
1975
1978

Election results

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Elections in the 1970s

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1978

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1978 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Phillip.[edit]
1978 New South Wales state election: Phillip [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 18,450 72.4 +2.9
Liberal Philip Daley 4,873 19.1 −3.5
Communist Judy Mundey 1,262 5.0 −0.7
Socialist Workers Gordon Adler 895 3.5 +1.3
Total formal votes 25,480 96.1 −0.8
Informal votes 1,043 3.9 +0.8
Turnout 26,523 85.2 +0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 20,320 79.7 +3.7
Liberal Philip Daley 5,160 20.3 −3.7
Labor hold Swing +3.7

1976

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1976 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Phillip.[edit]
1976 New South Wales state election: Phillip [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 18,732 69.5 +4.0
Liberal Peter Starr 6,086 22.6 +4.4
Communist Judy Mundey 1,540 5.7 +2.4
Socialist Workers Deborah Shnookal 594 2.2 +2.2
Total formal votes 26,952 96.9 +2.6
Informal votes 864 3.1 −2.6
Turnout 27,816 84.4 +0.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 20,472 76.0 +1.1
Liberal Peter Starr 6,480 24.0 −1.1
Labor hold Swing +1.1

1973

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1973 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Phillip.[edit]
1973 New South Wales state election: Phillip [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 16,523 65.5 −6.6
Liberal Walter O'Donoghue 4,594 18.2 −1.3
Australia Jennifer Baker 1,831 7.3 +7.3
Democratic Labor Kristina Aster-Stater 1,007 4.0 −4.4
Communist Joseph Owens 838 3.3 +3.3
Independent John Hawkins 436 1.7 +1.7
Total formal votes 25,229 94.3
Informal votes 1,514 5.7
Turnout 26,743 83.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 18,900 74.9 +1.1
Liberal Walter O'Donoghue 6,329 25.1 −1.1
Labor hold Swing +1.1

1971

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1971 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Phillip.[edit]
1971 New South Wales state election: Phillip [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 16,904 72.1 +3.3
Liberal Ronald Hack 4,567 19.5 −3.9
Democratic Labor John Fox 1,974 8.4 +0.6
Total formal votes 23,445 96.0
Informal votes 973 4.0
Turnout 24,418 88.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 17,299 73.8 +3.4
Liberal Ronald Hack 6,146 26.2 −3.4
Labor hold Swing +3.4

Elections in the 1960s

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1968

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1968 New South Wales state election: Phillip [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 16,829 68.8 +10.1
Liberal Terence Tomlin 5,726 23.4 −8.8
Democratic Labor Doris Brown 1,901 7.8 +7.8
Total formal votes 24,458 95.3
Informal votes 1,194 4.7
Turnout 25,650 90.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 17,209 70.4 −2.5
Liberal Terence Tomlin 7,247 29.6 +2.5
Labor hold Swing −2.5

1965

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1965 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1965 New South Wales state election: Phillip [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 12,392 58.7 −9.7
Liberal Kenneth McKimm 6,794 32.2 +5.8
Communist Walter Buckley 1,570 7.4 +2.1
Independent John Walsh 360 1.7 +1.7
Total formal votes 21,116 96.1 −0.8
Informal votes 848 3.9 +0.8
Turnout 21,964 89.3 −0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 13,828 65.5 −7.1
Liberal Kenneth McKimm 7,288 34.5 +7.1
Labor hold Swing −7.1

1962

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1962 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1962 New South Wales state election: Phillip [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 15,665 68.4 +3.0
Liberal Jean Wood 6,040 26.4 −2.4
Communist Joy Williams 1,212 5.3 −0.4
Total formal votes 22,917 96.9
Informal votes 741 3.1
Turnout 23,658 89.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 16,635 72.6 +2.8
Liberal Jean Wood 6,282 27.4 −2.8
Labor hold Swing +2.8

Elections in the 1950s

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1959

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1959 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1959 New South Wales state election: Phillip [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 15,487 69.4
Liberal Warwick Dunkley 5,539 24.8
Communist Ernie Thornton 1,276 5.7
Total formal votes 22,302 96.7
Informal votes 771 3.3
Turnout 23,073 89.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 16,508 74.0
Liberal Warwick Dunkley 5,794 26.0
Labor hold Swing

1956

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1956 New South Wales state election: Phillip [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 14,287 75.6 −24.4
Lang Labor Francis Mohan 3,197 16.9 +16.9
Communist Robert Webster 1,407 7.5 +7.5
Total formal votes 18,791 95.8
Informal votes 832 4.2
Turnout 19,723 92.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Pat Hills 15,342 81.2 −18.8
Lang Labor Francis Mohan 3,549 18.8 +18.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

1954 by-election

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This section is an excerpt from 1954 Phillip state by-election § Result.[edit]
1954 Phillip by-election
Saturday 14 August [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Pat Hills 11,450 73.3
Independent Wal Campbell 4,164 26.7
Total formal votes 15,614 97.6
Informal votes 392 2.4
Turnout 16,006 69.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
Tom Shannon (Labor) died.[13]

1953

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1953 New South Wales state election: Phillip [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon unopposed
Labor hold  

1950

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1950 New South Wales state election: Phillip [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 15,390 78.7
Liberal Henry Clarke 4,161 21.3
Total formal votes 19,551 97.2
Informal votes 566 2.8
Turnout 20,117 89.3
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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1947

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1947 New South Wales state election: Phillip [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 12,040 62.2 +2.9
Lang Labor Michael Moore 3,586 18.5 −22.2
Independent Henry Dixon 2,161 11.2 +11.2
Communist Thomas Payne 1,580 8.2 +8.2
Total formal votes 19,367 95.5 +0.9
Informal votes 902 4.5 −0.9
Turnout 20,269 91.9 +3.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1944

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1944 New South Wales state election: Phillip [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 10,198 59.3 −14.0
Lang Labor Les Dorney 7,008 40.7 +40.7
Total formal votes 17,206 94.6 −0.6
Informal votes 988 5.4 +0.6
Turnout 18,194 88.6 +1.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

1941

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1941 New South Wales state election: Phillip [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 12,689 73.3
Independent Diana Gould 2,347 13.5
State Labor Tom Morey 2,279 13.2
Total formal votes 17,315 95.2
Informal votes 870 4.8
Turnout 18,185 87.6
Labor hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1930s

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1938

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1938 New South Wales state election: Phillip [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon unopposed
Labor hold  

1935

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1935 New South Wales state election: Phillip [20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Tom Shannon unopposed
Labor (NSW) hold  

1932

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1932 New South Wales state election: Phillip [21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Tom Shannon 10,708 70.5 −12.7
United Australia William Adkins 3,347 22.0 +7.2
Federal Labor Ronald Wyllie 786 5.2 +5.2
Communist Edward Docker 354 2.3 +0.3
Total formal votes 15,195 96.3 −1.1
Informal votes 585 3.7 +1.1
Turnout 15,780 93.3 +2.2
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1930 New South Wales state election: Phillip [22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 12,152 83.2
Nationalist William Adkins 2,167 14.8
Communist Edwin Hill 296 2.0
Total formal votes 14,615 97.4
Informal votes 397 2.6
Turnout 15,012 91.1
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1927

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Phillip [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Michael Burke 8,645 79.3
Nationalist William Weller 2,111 19.4
Independent Mary Grayndler 147 1.4
Total formal votes 10,903 98.4
Informal votes 181 1.6
Turnout 11,084 75.0
Labor win (new seat)

District re-created

1920 - 1927

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District abolished District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

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1917

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Phillip [24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Doyle 3,913 65.2 −18.1
Independent Labor Richard Meagher 2,056 34.3 +34.3
Ind. Socialist Labor James Slade 31 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 6,000 98.9 +1.4
Informal votes 66 1.1 −1.4
Turnout 6,066 61.4 +4.5
Labor hold Swing −18.1
The sitting member Richard Meagher was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription.[25]

1913

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Phillip [26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Richard Meagher 4,755 83.3
Liberal Reform Eden George 954 16.7
Total formal votes 5,709 97.5
Informal votes 145 2.5
Turnout 5,854 56.9
Labor hold  

1910

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1910 New South Wales state election: Phillip [27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Meagher 4,108 76.1 +33.5
Liberal Reform Henry Manning 1,236 22.9 −5.8
Independent William Leonard 51 0.9
Total formal votes 5,395 97.1 +0.2
Informal votes 163 2.9 +0.2
Turnout 5,558 65.6 −6.9
Member changed to Labour from Independent  

Elections in the 1900s

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1907

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1907 New South Wales state election: Phillip [28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Richard Meagher 2,578 42.6
Liberal Reform John Garland 1,735 28.7
Labour Phillip Sullivan 1,735 28.7
Total formal votes 6,048 97.3
Informal votes 170 2.7
Turnout 6,218 72.5
Independent gain from Labour  

1904

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Phillip.[edit]
1904 New South Wales state election: Phillip [29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phillip Sullivan 2,977 56.2
Liberal Reform Francis Boyce 2,120 40.0
Independent Liberal Samuel Wolfe 176 3.3
Socialist Labor Francis Drake 18 0.3
Total formal votes 5,298 98.9
Informal votes 59 1.1
Turnout 5,357 59.1
Labour win (new seat)
Phillip was a new seat and consisted of parts of the abolished seats of Sydney-Phillip and Darlington. The member for Darlington was Phillip Sullivan (Labour). The member for Sydney-Phillip was Daniel O'Connor (Progressive) who did not contest the election.

References

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