Electoral results for the district of Yaralla

Yaralla, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1968 and abolished in 1981.^[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1968		Lerryn Mutton	Liberal
1971
1973
1976
1978		Garry McIlwaine	Labor

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1978

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1978 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Yaralla.[edit]

1978 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	16,219	56.5	+10.9
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	11,533	40.1	−14.3
	Democrats	Christopher Dunkerley	973	3.4	+3.4
Total formal votes			28,725	97.6	−0.2
Informal votes			697	2.4	+0.2
Turnout			29,422	92.5	+1.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	16,706	58.2	+12.6
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	12,019	41.8	−12.6
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+12.6

1976

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1976 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Yaralla.[edit]

1976 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	15,761	54.4	+0.6
	Labor	Derek Margerison	13,218	45.6	+7.0
Total formal votes			28,979	97.8	+0.1
Informal votes			662	2.2	−0.1
Turnout			29,641	91.4	+0.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.4

1973

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1973 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Yaralla.[edit]

1973 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	14,924	53.8	+3.0
	Labor	Derek Margerison	10,703	38.6	−3.5
	Democratic Labor	Terence McCormack	2,107	7.6	+0.5
Total formal votes			27,734	97.7
Informal votes			652	2.3
Turnout			28,386	91.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	16,590	59.8	+3.6
	Labor	Derek Margerison	11,144	40.2	−3.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.6

1971

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1971 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Yaralla.[edit]

1971 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	13,295	49.8	−1.8
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	11,500	43.1	+0.4
	Democratic Labor	Andrew Murphy	1,889	7.1	+1.4
Total formal votes			26,684	98.1
Informal votes			511	1.9
Turnout			27,195	93.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	14,661	54.9	−2.3
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	12,023	45.1	+2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.3

Elections in the 1960s

1968

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

1968 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	12,355	50.6
	Labor	Thomas Murphy	10,671	43.7
	Democratic Labor	Maxwell Martin	1,381	5.7
Total formal votes			24,407	97.1
Informal votes			730	2.9
Turnout			25,137	94.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	13,460	55.1	−1.0
	Labor	Thomas Murphy	10,947	44.9	+1.0
	Liberal win		(new seat)

Yaralla was a new seat, largely replacing the abolished district of Concord. The member for Concord was Thomas Murphy (Labor).

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
4. Green, Antony. "1978 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "1976 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
6. Green, Antony. "1973 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
7. Green, Antony. "1971 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
8. Green, Antony. "1968 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.