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Wallsend - 1927 (Roll: 16,167)
Retained by Labor Party
Not contested by both major parties
Candidate Party Votes % Final %
Cameron, Robert (Elected) Labor Party 7,668 57.81
Skelton, Walter Peden Joyce (Defeated) Protestant Labor 5,597 42.19
Formal Votes 13,265
Informal Votes 94 0.70
Total Votes / Turnout 13,359 82.63
Notes: Skelton had been elected in 1925 as a Protestant Labor candidate.