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Wammerawa - By-election (Roll:
Nominations: Tuesday, 1 August 1922, Polling: Tuesday, 1 August 1922 (No poll held)
Candidate Party Votes % Quotas Final %
Clark, Joseph Alfred (Elected) Labor Party Elected unopposed
Cause Category: Qualifications Committee
Notes: Clark was declared elected in place of W.G.Ashford following a report by the Elections and Qualifications Committee. There had been confusion over the calculation of transfer values for the surplus to quota votes of elected candidates. Ashford was declared elected by the Returning Officer applying the wrong method, the Committee overturning the result after applying the correct method.
Corrections: Note Parliamentary Record lists date as 26 July 1922.