Electoral results for the district of Bondi

Bondi, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales has had two incarnations, from 1913 to 1920 and from 1927 until 1971.^[1][2][3]

First incarnation (1913–1920)
Election	Member		Party
1913		James Macarthur-Onslow	Liberal Reform
1917			Nationalist
Second incarnation (1927–1971)
Election	Member		Party
1927		Harold Jaques	Nationalist
1930		Abe Landa	Labor
1932		Norman Thomas	United Australia
1935
1938
1941		Abe Landa	Labor
1944
1947
1950
1953
1956
1959
1962
1965
1965 by		Syd Einfeld	Labor
1968

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

1968

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1968 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Syd Einfeld	12,054	54.8	+2.9
	Liberal	James Markham	9,938	45.2	−2.9
Total formal votes			21,992	97.0
Informal votes			689	3.0
Turnout			22,681	93.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.9

1965 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1965 Bondi state by-election § Results.[edit]

1965 Bondi by-election
Saturday 6 November ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Syd Einfeld	10,110	49.9	−3.7
	Liberal	John Barraclough	9,579	47.3	+0.9
	Democratic Labor	William Slowgrove	493	2.4
	Independent	Albert Rietschel	76	0.4
Total formal votes			20,258	96.5	−1.3
Informal votes			732	3.5	+1.3
Turnout			20,990	86.8	−5.5
After distribution of preferences
	Labor	Syd Einfeld	10,167	50.2
	Liberal	John Barraclough	9,588	47.3
	Democratic Labor	William Slowgrove	503	2.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed to completion.
• Abe Landa (Labor) resigned to accept the position of Agent-General for New South Wales in London.^[5]

1965

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1965 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1965 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	11,978	53.6	−5.6
	Liberal	John Barraclough	10,356	46.4	+5.6
Total formal votes			22,334	97.8	−0.7
Informal votes			492	2.2	+0.7
Turnout			22,826	92.3	−0.4
	Labor hold		Swing	−5.6

1962

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1962 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1962 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	13,898	59.2	+5.8
	Liberal	Carl Jeppesen	9,575	40.8	−1.6
Total formal votes			23,473	98.5
Informal votes			363	1.5
Turnout			23,836	92.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.2

Elections in the 1950s

1959

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1959 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1959 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	10,713	50.4
	Liberal	Carl Jeppesen	9,660	45.4
	Democratic Labor	Charles Massey	881	4.2
Total formal votes			21,254	98.0
Informal votes			429	2.0
Turnout			21,683	93.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Abe Landa	10,889	51.2
	Liberal	Carl Jeppesen	10,365	48.8
	Labor hold		Swing

1956

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1956 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	11,263	54.6	−5.0
	Liberal	Daniel Sutherland	9,360	45.4	+5.0
Total formal votes			20,623	98.3	+0.3
Informal votes			353	1.7	−0.3
Turnout			20,976	92.9	−0.4
	Labor hold		Swing	−5.0

1953

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1953 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	12,904	59.6
	Liberal	Leslie Fingleton	8,757	40.4
Total formal votes			21,661	98.0
Informal votes			446	2.0
Turnout			22,107	93.3
	Labor hold		Swing

1950

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1950 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	12,179	52.0
	Liberal	Keith Weekes	11,255	48.0
Total formal votes			23,434	98.7
Informal votes			314	1.3
Turnout			23,748	92.4
	Labor hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1947 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	12,148	49.2	+5.6
	Liberal	William McNally	10,488	42.4	+12.6
	Lang Labor	Elizabeth Frewin	2,080	8.4	−6.4
Total formal votes			24,716	98.2	+3.1
Informal votes			442	1.8	−3.1
Turnout			25,158	93.5	+0.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Abe Landa	13,454	54.4	+3.3
	Liberal	William McNally	11,262	45.6	−3.3
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.3

1944

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1944 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	9,521	43.6	−1.5
	Democratic	Frank Browne	6,505	29.8	−14.4
	Lang Labor	Leslie Hallett	3,241	14.8	+14.8
	Liberal Democratic	Alexander Stewart	2,465	11.3	+11.3
	Independent Labor	Alfred Rosen	126	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			21,858	95.1	−3.4
Informal votes			1,116	4.9	+3.4
Turnout			22,974	92.6	+1.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Abe Landa	11,164	51.1	−3.1
	Democratic	Frank Browne	10,694	48.9	+3.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.1

1941

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1941 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	9,577	45.1
	United Australia	Norman Thomas	9,373	44.2
	State Labor	Allan Jenkins	2,267	10.7
Total formal votes			21,217	98.5
Informal votes			327	1.5
Turnout			21,544	91.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Abe Landa	11,492	54.2
	United Australia	Norman Thomas	9,725	45.8
	Labor gain from United Australia		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1938 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Norman Thomas	12,223	52.3	−11.5
	Labor	Henry Collins	5,946	25.4	−10.8
	Independent	Thomas Hogan	4,357	18.6	+18.6
	Independent	Richard Brown	851	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			23,377	98.0	−0.3
Informal votes			474	2.0	+0.3
Turnout			23,851	95.8	−0.2
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1935

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1935 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Norman Thomas	12,978	63.8	+1.6
	Labor (NSW)	Jack Fitzpatrick	7,374	36.2	+3.7
Total formal votes			20,352	98.3	+0.3
Informal votes			346	1.7	−0.3
Turnout			20,698	96.0	−0.2
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

1932

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1932 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Norman Thomas	12,132	62.2	+19.4
	Labor (NSW)	Abe Landa	6,330	32.5	−15.0
	Federal Labor	James Buckingham	684	3.5	+3.5
	Womens	Grace Scobie	233	1.2	+1.2
	Communist	Archibald Smith	109	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			19,488	98.0	−0.7
Informal votes			387	2.0	+0.7
Turnout			19,875	96.2	+3.8
	United Australia gain from Labor (NSW)		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1930

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1930 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Abe Landa	8,725	47.5
	Nationalist	Harold Jaques (defeated)	7,859	42.8
	Australian	Ashton Kurts	1,795	9.8
Total formal votes			18,379	98.7
Informal votes			242	1.3
Turnout			18,621	92.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Abe Landa	9,592	52.2
	Nationalist	Harold Jaques	8,787	47.8
	Labor gain from Ind. Nationalist		Swing

Sitting member Harold Jaques had won the 1927 election as an independent nationalist but rejoined the Nationalist party.

Elections in the 1920s

1927

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1927 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Nationalist	Harold Jaques	7,692	53.5
	Nationalist	Millicent Preston-Stanley (defeated)	3,408	23.7
	Labor	Susan Francis	3,278	22.8
Total formal votes			14,378	97.9
Informal votes			310	2.1
Turnout			14,688	84.8
	Ind. Nationalist win		(new seat)

Both Harold Jaques and Millicent Preston-Stanley were Nationalist members for Eastern Suburbs and Preston-Stanley won Nationalist pre-selection. Jaques re-joined the Nationalist party after the election.

District recreated

1920 - 1927

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

1917

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1917 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James Macarthur-Onslow	unopposed
	Nationalist hold

1913

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Bondi.[edit]

1913 New South Wales state election: Bondi ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	James Macarthur-Onslow	4,567	55.7
	Labor	George Moxon	1,995	24.3
	Independent Liberal	Frank Farnell	1,638	20.0
Total formal votes			8,200	98.2
Informal votes			146	1.8
Turnout			8,346	63.7
	Liberal Reform win		(new seat)

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