Electoral results for the district of Kirribilli

Election results for Kirribilli, New South Wales, Australia

Kirribilli, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1962 and abolished in 1981.

Election		Party
1962	John Waddy	Liberal
1965
1968
1971
1973		Liberal / Independent
1976	Bruce McDonald	Liberal
1978	Bruce McDonald	Liberal

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1978

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

1978 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce McDonald	11,965	53.8	+11.2
	Labor	Glen Batchelor	10,280	46.2	+9.8
Total formal votes			22,245	96.9	−1.7
Informal votes			712	3.1	+1.7
Turnout			22,957	86.6	−2.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	−7.3

1976

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

1976 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce McDonald	10,593	42.7	−16.5
	Labor	Patrick Healy	9,050	36.4	+2.0
	Independent	John Waddy	4,343	17.5	+17.5
	Workers	David Rennie	732	3.0	+3.0
	Independent	Romaulds Kemps	121	0.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			24,839	98.6	+1.1
Informal votes			359	1.4	−1.1
Turnout			25,198	89.0	+4.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Bruce McDonald	15,176	61.1	−3.2
	Labor	Patrick Healy	9,663	38.9	+3.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.2

John Waddy was the sitting member for Kirribilli but was denied Liberal pre-selection and stood for the seat as an independent.

1973

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

1973 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Waddy	13,981	59.2	+4.1
	Labor	Irene Anderson	8,124	34.4	+4.3
	Democratic Labor	Margaret Colman	1,521	6.4	−5.4
Total formal votes			23,626	97.5
Informal votes			609	2.5
Turnout			24,235	84.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Waddy	15,198	64.3	−1.7
	Labor	Irene Anderson	8,428	35.7	+1.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.7

1971

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

1971 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Waddy	13,171	55.1	−7.0
	Labor	William Harkness	7,200	30.1	−2.2
	Democratic Labor	Michael Fitzpatrick	2,814	11.8	+6.2
	Independent	Romaulds Kemps	708	3.0	+3.0
Total formal votes			23,893	97.6
Informal votes			575	2.4
Turnout			24,468	87.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Waddy	15,776	66.0	−0.6
	Labor	William Harkness	8,117	34.0	+0.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.6

Elections in the 1960s

1968

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Kirribilli.

1968 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Waddy	15,534	62.1	+10.5
	Labor	Alan Newbury	8,079	32.3	−6.4
	Democratic Labor	Luigi Lamprati	1,410	5.6	+5.6
Total formal votes			25,023	96.9
Informal votes			797	3.1
Turnout			25,820	90.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Waddy	16,662	66.6	+3.6
	Labor	Alan Newbury	8,361	33.4	−3.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.6

1965

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1965 New South Wales state election § Kirribilli.

1965 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Waddy	10,318	51.6	+2.0
	Labor	James Cahill	7,727	38.7	−6.4
	Independent	Nicholas Gorshenin	1,934	9.7	+9.7
Total formal votes			19,979	97.8	−0.4
Informal votes			457	2.2	+0.4
Turnout			20,436	90.8	−0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Waddy	11,285	56.5	+3.4
	Labor	James Cahill	8,694	43.5	−3.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.4

1962

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1962 New South Wales state election § Kirribilli.

1962 New South Wales state election: Kirribilli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Waddy	11,106	49.6
	Labor	Joseph Hazell	10,105	45.1
	Democratic Labor	Sydney Mostyn	1,181	5.3
Total formal votes			22,392	98.2
Informal votes			416	1.8
Turnout			22,808	91.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Waddy	11,898	53.1
	Labor	Joseph Hazell	10,494	46.9
	Liberal notional hold		Swing	N/A

Kirribilli was a new seat that was notionally a safe Liberal seat.

References

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"Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
"The Hon. John Lloyd Waddy (1916–1987)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
"Mr Bruce John McDonald (1935- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
Green, Antony. "1978 Kirribilli". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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