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Newtown-Annandale - 1950 (Roll: 23,659) Retained by Labor Party Not contested by both major parties Candidate Party Votes % Final % Fowler, Lilian (Defeated) Lang Labor 8,555 40.01 Greenup, Arthur Edward (Elected) Labor Party 11,990 56.08 Lewin, Daisy Olive Communist 836 3.91 Formal Votes 21,381 Informal Votes 750 3.39 Total Votes / Turnout 22,131 93.54 Notes: A new electorate that combined large parts of the abolished electorates of Annandale and Newtwown. Sitting Labor MP for Annandale R.D.Gorman was defeated in Labor Party pre-selection. Lillian Fowler was the sitting Lang Labor MP for the abolished electorate of Newtown. Corrections: Lillian Fowler has been listed as Lang Labor, where Hughes and Graham (1975) list her as Independent Labor.