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results for the

1950 New South Wales state election The 1950 New South Wales state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution. The election was for all of the ...

Results by electoral district

Albury

Armidale

Ashfield

Auburn

Balmain

Mary Quirk Mary Lily May Quirk (7 December 1880 – 4 March 1952) was an Australian politician. Born in Coonamble, New South Wales, Coonamble in New South Wales to farmer Julius Deal and his wife Emma Margaretta White, she was educated at Rozelle, Ne ...

was the sitting Labor member, however she was defeated for pre-selection by John McMahon.

Bankstown

Barwon

The sitting member was

Roy Heferen Stephen Roy Heferen (2 June 1898 – 9 June 1961) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1950. During his parliamentary career he was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) but sat ...

who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an Independent labor candidate.

Bathurst

Blacktown

Bondi

Bulli

Burrinjuck

Burrinjuck was a new seat, largely replacing

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. Bill Sheahan (Labor) was the member for Yass.

Burwood

Byron

Canterbury

Casino

Castlereagh

Castlereagh was expanded to include part of

Cobar Cobar is a town in central western New South Wales, Australia whose economy is based mainly upon base metals and gold mining. The town is by road northwest of the state capital, Sydney. It is at the crossroads of the Kidman Way and Barrier Hig ...

, including the towns of Bourke and

Nyngan Nyngan () is a town in the centre of New South Wales, Australia, in the Bogan Shire local government area within the Orana Region of central New South Wales. At the 2016 census, Nyngan had a population of 1,988 people. Nyngan is situated on the ...

Cessnock

Clarence

Cobar

Cobar absorbed the entire district of Sturt, but lost the towns of Bourke and

to Castlereagh and South Broken Hill and

Menindee Menindee (frequently but erroneously spelled "Menindie" ) is a small town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia, in Central Darling Shire, on the banks of the Darling River, with a sign-posted population of 980 and a population of 551. ...

to the re-constituted Sturt.

Collaroy

Collaroy was a new seat created out of the districts of Hornsby and Manly, both of which were held by the Liberal party.

Concord

The sitting member, Bill Carlton (), died in 1949. The 1949 by-election was won by

Brice Mutton Brice Mutton (8 January 1890 – 7 December 1949) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for nine months in 1949. He was a member of the Liberal Party. Early life Mutton was born in Lerryn, Corn ...

(), however he died nine months later, with John Adamson () winning the 1950 by-election.

Coogee

The sitting member,

Lou Cunningham Lucien Lawrence "Lou" Cunningham (4 June 1889 – 23 March 1948) was an Australian farmer and politician. Early life Cunningham was born at Inverell, New South Wales, to a farmer, Eugene Cunningham, and his wife Mary, née Edgeworth, both ...

(), died in 1948. The 1948 by-election was won by Kevin Ellis ().

Cook's River

Croydon

Darlinghurst

Frank Finnan Francis Joseph Finnan (23 September 1897 – 21 March 1966) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1953. He was a member of the Labor Party and held numerous ministerial positions ...

(Labor) was the member for

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Drummoyne

Dubbo

Dulwich Hill

Earlwood

Eastwood

Georges River

Gloucester

Gordon

Gosford

Goulburn

Granville

Hamilton

Hartley

Hawkesbury

The redistribution made Hawkesbury a notional Liberal seat. The sitting member

(Labor) successfully contested the new district of

Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney. I ...

Hornsby

Hurstville

Illawarra

Kahibah

King

Kogarah

Kogarah was won by the Liberal Party at a by-election in 1948 caused by the death of Labor's

William Currey William Matthew Currey, VC (19 September 1895 – 30 April 1948) was a politician and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth ...

Kurri Kurri

Lake Macquarie

Lakemba

The sitting member was Fred Stanley who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an Independent labor candidate.

Lane Cove

Leichhardt

Lismore

Liverpool

Liverpool Plains

Maitland

Manly

Maroubra

Bob Heffron Robert James Heffron (10 September 189027 July 1978), also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party Premier of New So ...

(Labor) was the member for the abolished district of Botany which was largely replaced by Maroubra.

Marrickville

Monaro

The sitting member was

John Seiffert John Wesley Seiffert (9 September 1905 – 10 January 1965) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until his death in 1965. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP), but stood at an Inde ...

who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an Independent labor candidate.

Mosman

Mudgee

Murray

Murrumbidgee

Nepean

Neutral Bay

Newcastle

Newtown-Annandale

* Preferences were not distributed. Netown-Annandale was a notional Labor seat combining parts of the abolished districts of Newtown and Annandale.

Lilian Fowler Elizabeth Lilian Maud Fowler MBE, JP (; 7 June 1886 – 11 May 1954) was an Australian politician. She was Australia's first female mayor, serving as mayor of Newtown, New South Wales, from 1937 to 1939. She later represented the seat of Newto ...

(Lang Labor) was the member for Newtown.

North Sydney

The sitting member was

James Geraghty James Leo Geraghty (1896 – 27 June 1960) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1953. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) until 1950 and then sat as an Independent Labor ...

who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an independent labor candidate.

Orange

Oxley

Paddington

Parramatta

Phillip

Raleigh

Randwick

Redfern

Rockdale

Ryde

South Coast

Sturt

Sturt was reconstituted, with the former district being absorbed by

. The new district comprised part of Cobar, including the towns of South Broken Hill and

, part of

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, and the western part of the abolished district of Lachlan.

Sutherland

Tamworth

Temora

Tenterfield

Upper Hunter

Vaucluse

Wagga Wagga

Waratah

Waverley

Willoughby

Wollondilly

* Preferences were not distributed.

Wollongong-Kembla

Woollahra

Young

Notes

References

{{Electoral results for the former districts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...