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Ashfield - By-election (Roll: 12,899) Retained by Nationalist Nominations: Tuesday, 24 September 1929, Polling: Saturday, 5 October 1929 Multiple party endorsement, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result, No absolute majority for winning candidate Candidate Party Votes % Final % Clancy, John Sydney Labor Party 3,526 38.44 4,128 48.54 Huie, Alexander Gordon Independent 1,692 18.45 Jarvie, Milton Livingstone Fredericks (Re-elected) Nationalist 3,484 37.98 4,376 51.46 Kirkwood, Reginald Barcon Nationalist 281 3.06 Pikett, Albert Horace Nationalist 190 2.07 Formal Votes 9,173 Informal / Exhausted Votes 95 1.03 669 7.29 Total Votes / Turnout 9,268 71.85 Cause Category: Resignation - Other Notes: Jarvie had been implicated by a Royal Commission in an attempt to bribe the Minister for Transport over licences for bus routes. He was aquitted of the charge in a court case but still chose to resign from Parliament and re-contest his seat at a by-election. Source: Nominations SMH 25 September 1929, p.16 col.5 Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Pikett (NAT) Exclusion 2 Kirkwood (NAT) Exclusion 3 Huie (IND) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Clancy (ALP) 5 3.18 3531 38.63 13 4.98 3544 39.18 584 43.52 4128 48.54 Huie (IND) 45 28.66 1737 19.00 146 55.94 1883 20.82 -1883 Jarvie (NAT) 32 20.38 3516 38.47 102 39.08 3618 40.00 758 56.48 4376 51.46 Kirkwood (NAT) 75 47.77 356 3.89 -356 Pikett (NAT) -190 Votes In Count 157 9140 261 9045 1342 8504 Exhausted 33 17.37 33 0.36 95 26.69 128 1.40 541 28.73 669 7.29