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Auburn - 1950 (Roll: 26,708) Labor Party gain from Lang Labor Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion Candidate Party Votes % Final % Dennison, James Brodie Liberal Party 5,683 23.69 Dring, Edgar Percy (Re-elected) Labor Party 10,151 42.31 13,556 56.50 Kerr, Alexander McQualter Independent 1,808 7.54 Kirby, Roy Joseph Communist 536 2.23 Lang, James Christian (Defeated) Lang Labor 5,815 24.24 10,437 43.50 Formal Votes 23,993 Informal Votes 953 3.82 Total Votes / Turnout 24,946 93.40 Notes: E.P.Dring moved to contest Auburn after his rural electorate of Ashburnham had been abolished in the redistribution. Corrections: J.C.Lang has been listed as Lang Labor, where Hughes and Graham (1975) list him as Independent Labor. Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Kirby (COM) Exclusion 2 Kerr (IND) Exclusion 3 Dennison (LIB) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Dennison (LIB) 36 6.72 5719 23.84 537 28.62 6256 26.07 -6256 Dring (ALP) 366 68.28 10517 43.83 946 50.43 11463 47.78 2093 33.46 13556 56.50 Kerr (IND) 68 12.69 1876 7.82 -1876 Kirby (COM) -536 Lang (Lang) 66 12.31 5881 24.51 393 20.95 6274 26.15 4163 66.54 10437 43.50