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Murray - 1920 (Roll: 37,857) - 3 to be elected Candidate Party Votes % Quotas Final % Ball, Richard Thomas (Re-elected 2) Nationalist 3,957 19.95 0.7979 4,959 25.01 Manning, Arthur Gibson (Defeated) Nationalist 2,224 11.21 0.4485 Beeby, George Stephenson (Re-elected 3) Progressive 3,810 19.21 0.7683 5,667 28.58 Kilpatrick, Matthew Progressive 742 3.74 0.1496 O'Brien, William Joseph (Re-elected 1) Labor Party 4,833 24.37 0.9746 4,959 25.01 Clear, Edmund Labor Party 3,590 18.10 0.7239 4,245 21.40 Thompson, Claude Labor Party 676 3.41 0.1363 Formal Votes 19,832 Informal / Exhausted Votes 1,326 6.27 2 0.01 Total Votes / Turnout 21,158 55.89 Quota for election 4,959 Notes: Sitting members represented the following electorates, Ball (Corowa), Beeby (Wagga Wagga), Manning (Albury) and O'Brien (Annandale). By contesting Murray, O'Brien avoided the surplus of Labor MPs trying to contest inner-Sydney electorates.