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Electoral results for the district of Middle Swan

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Middle Swan in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Middle Swan

Member Party Term
  James Hegney Labor 1930–1947
  Bill Grayden Liberal 1947–1949
  James Hegney Labor 1950–1962

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1959 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 5,364 55.4 −44.6
Liberal and Country Francis Wilson 3,699 38.2 +38.2
Democratic Labor Brian Peachey 623 6.4 +6.4
Total formal votes 9,686 97.9
Informal votes 205 2.1
Turnout 9,891 91.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Hegney 56.3 −43.7
Liberal and Country Francis Wilson 43.7 +43.7
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1956 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1953 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1950 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 4,480 53.1
Liberal and Country Henry Hawkins 3,955 46.9
Total formal votes 8,435 97.9
Informal votes 177 2.1
Turnout 8,612 91.7
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 4,933 47.1 −2.0
Liberal Bill Grayden 4,180 39.9 +12.6
Country Mary Hamersley 1,370 13.1 +13.1
Total formal votes 10,483 97.9 +0.6
Informal votes 220 2.1 −0.6
Turnout 10,703 85.1 +0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Grayden 5,267 50.2 +8.3
Labor James Hegney 5,216 49.8 −8.3
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +8.3
1943 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 4,183 49.1 −2.9
Nationalist Karl Drake-Brockman 2,326 27.3 −20.7
Independent Henry Hawkins 2,004 23.5 +23.5
Total formal votes 8,513 97.3 −0.1
Informal votes 236 2.7 +0.1
Turnout 8,749 84.5 −4.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Hegney 4,945 58.1 +6.1
Nationalist Karl Drake-Brockman 3,568 41.9 −6.1
Labor hold Swing +6.1

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 4,311 52.0 −6.8
Nationalist Karl Drake-Brockman 3,979 48.0 +6.8
Total formal votes 8,290 97.4 −1.3
Informal votes 220 2.6 +1.3
Turnout 8,510 88.6 +26.2
Labor hold Swing −6.8
1936 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 3,061 58.8 −0.6
Nationalist David Pyvis 2,148 41.2 +22.5
Total formal votes 5,209 98.7 +2.4
Informal votes 70 1.3 −2.4
Turnout 5,279 62.4 −27.9
Labor hold Swing N/A
1933 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 4,081 59.4 +11.9
Nationalist Karl Drake-Brockman 1,286 18.7 −3.9
Nationalist William Southwood 658 9.6 +9.6
Nationalist John Pickering 599 8.7 +8.7
Country George Gaunt 244 3.5 −9.9
Total formal votes 6,868 96.3 −1.9
Informal votes 265 3.7 +1.9
Turnout 7,133 90.3 +19.9
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1930 Western Australian state election: Middle Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Hegney 2,263 47.5
Nationalist Dick Ardagh 1,076 22.6
Nationalist Albert McGilvray 791 16.6
Country Alfred Yeates 638 13.4
Total formal votes 4,683 98.2
Informal votes 85 1.8
Turnout 4,853 70.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Hegney 2,532 53.1
Nationalist Dick Ardagh 2,236 46.9
Labor hold Swing

References

  1. ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
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