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Willoughby - By-election (Roll: 23,092) Retained by United Australia Nominations: Friday, 10 September 1943, Polling: Saturday, 25 September 1943 Multiple party endorsement, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result Candidate Party Votes % Final % Bales, Joseph United Australia 4,074 21.84 Brain, George William (Elected) United Australia 4,757 25.50 10,279 55.10 Faulkner, Clarence Campbell Independent 479 2.57 Fenwick, Augustus Vance People's Labor 251 1.35 Milne, Hugh Charles Oliver Independent 1,768 9.48 Osborne, John Percy Ind Labor 439 2.35 Wood, William Arnold Whitfield State Labor 6,887 36.92 8,376 44.90 Formal Votes 18,655 Informal Votes 557 2.90 Total Votes / Turnout 19,212 83.20 Cause Category: Death Notes: Caused by the death of sitting UAP MP E.L.Sanders. Source: Nominations SMH 11 September 1943, p.8 col.7, names same issue p.1 col.4. Report makes clear there was no official Labor candidate and Wood was a State Labor candidate, where Hughes and Graham (1975) have listed him as a Labor candidate. Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Fenwick (PLAB) Exclusion 2 Osborne (ILAB) Exclusion 3 Faulkner (IND) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Bales (UAP) 19 7.57 4093 21.94 65 14.16 4158 22.29 90 14.00 4248 22.77 Brain (UAP) 7 2.79 4764 25.54 48 10.46 4812 25.79 132 20.53 4944 26.50 Faulkner (IND) 113 45.02 592 3.17 51 11.11 643 3.45 -643 Fenwick (PLAB) -251 Milne (IND) 18 7.17 1786 9.57 103 22.44 1889 10.13 312 48.52 2201 11.80 Osborne (ILAB) 20 7.97 459 2.46 -459 Wood (SLAB) 74 29.48 6961 37.31 192 41.83 7153 38.34 109 16.95 7262 38.93 Distribution of Preferences - part 2 Exclusion 4 Milne (IND) Exclusion 5 Bales (UAP) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Bales (UAP) 661 30.03 4909 26.31 -4909 Brain (UAP) 775 35.21 5719 30.66 4560 92.89 10279 55.10 Milne (IND) -2201 Wood (SLAB) 765 34.76 8027 43.03 349 7.11 8376 44.90