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Wollongong - 1917 (Roll: 14,132) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % 2nd Ball % Charlton, Joseph Socialist 113 1.29 Davies, William (Elected) Labor Party 4,857 55.33 Nicholson, John Barnes (Defeated) Nationalist 3,809 43.39 Formal Votes 8,779 Informal Votes 118 1.33 Total Votes / Turnout 8,897 62.96 Notes: JB Nicholson had drifted in and out of the Labor Party since first being elected as a Labor MP at the 1891 election. Elected as a Labor MP in 1913, he joined the Nationalists after the conscription split.