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Canterbury - 1913 (Roll: 15,623) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % 2nd Ball % Dent, Ernest Alfred Lambourne Ind Liberal 111 1.01 Draper, John Edward Liberal Party 4,701 42.96 Messiter, Richard Charles Nat Prog 439 4.01 Peters, Henry John Frederick (Re-elected) Labor Party 5,691 52.01 Formal Votes 10,942 Informal Votes 268 2.39 Total Votes / Turnout 11,210 71.75 Notes: Sitting Liberal MP Varney Parkes contested the new seat of Hurstville, while Canterbury was contested by Labor's H.J.F.Peters, whose rural seat of Deniliquin had been abolished.