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Casino - 1953 (Roll: 15,350) Retained by Country Party Multiple party endorsement, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result Candidate Party Votes % Final % Cooke, William Robert Country Party 1,275 9.00 Reid, John Thomas (Defeated) Country Party 3,152 22.24 Robinson, Ian Louis (Elected) Country Party 4,547 32.08 8,560 60.40 Young, William Arthur Labor Party 5,199 36.68 5,613 39.60 Formal Votes 14,173 Informal Votes 249 1.73 Total Votes / Turnout 14,422 93.95 Notes: J.T.Reid was nearly 80 years old at the time of the 1953 election and there was local feeling that he should retire. Rather than force his retirement, the Party allowed multiple nomination and the electorate was won by 26 year-old Ian Robinson. (See Don Aitkin, 'The Country Party in New South Wales, pp224-225) Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Cooke (CP) Exclusion 2 Reid (CP) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Cooke (CP) -1275 Reid (CP) 788 61.80 3940 27.80 -3940 Robinson (CP) 412 32.31 4959 34.99 3601 91.40 8560 60.40 Young (ALP) 75 5.88 5274 37.21 339 8.60 5613 39.60