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Rozelle - 1927 (Roll: 15,830) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Doughty, Arthur Constitutionalist 106 0.79 Murphy, Cecil Horace (Defeated) Ind Labor 1,181 8.85 Quirk, John (Re-elected) Labor Party 7,126 53.43 Smith, Albert Frank Nationalist 4,925 36.92 Formal Votes 13,338 Informal Votes 283 2.08 Total Votes / Turnout 13,621 86.05 Notes: Quirk was a sitting Labor MP for Balmain. Murphy had been elected as a Labor MP for North Shore in 1925, but resigned from the Labor Party and contested Rozelle as an Independent Labor candidate.