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Auburn - 1932 (Roll: 18,948) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Coleman, Percy Eward Federal Labor 7,075 39.85 Lang, John Thomas (Re-elected) Labor Party 9,233 52.00 McLennan, Theodore Alexander John Independent 19 0.11 Sharkey, Lawrence Louis Communist 112 0.63 Wilkins, Phillip John United Australia 1,316 7.41 Formal Votes 17,755 Informal Votes 431 2.37 Total Votes / Turnout 18,186 95.98 Notes: Coleman had been the MHR for Reid from 1922 until defeated by a Lang candidate at the 1931 federal election. He was officially the Deputy Leader of the NSW Federal Labor party.