Misplaced Pages

1973 Byron state by-election

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Election result for Byron, New South Wales, Australia

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Byron on 17 February 1973 because of the resignation of Stanley Stephens (Country).

Dates

Date Event
17 January 1973 Stanley Stephens resigned.
19 January 1973 Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
26 January 1973 Nominations
17 February 1973 Polling day
16 March 1973 Return of writ

Result

1973 Byron by-election
Saturday 17 February 
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jack Boyd 6,397 35.9
Labor James Constable 7,535 42.3 −3.2
Country Colville Vincent 3,584 20.1
Australia Clemens Vermeulen 314 1.8
Total formal votes 17,830 98.7 +0.2
Informal votes 227 1.3 −0.2
Turnout 18,057 88.5 −3.5
Two-party-preferred result
Country Jack Boyd 9,584 54.5 −0.8
Labor James Constable 7,976 45.5 +0.8
Country hold Swing −0.8

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Hon. Stanley Tunstall Stephens". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  2. "Writ of election: Byron". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 10. 19 January 1973. p. 145. Retrieved 30 July 2020 – via Trove.
  3. Green, Antony. "1973 Byron by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
By-elections of the 43rd New South Wales parliament (1971–1973)
1972
1973
New South Wales Results of New South Wales State elections
Legislative Assembly
Colonial
State
Legislative Council
Colonial
State
By-elections
Categories: