NSW Elections - 1953 Results

Kahibah - By-election (Roll: 19,010)
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Final	%
Ind Labor gain from Labor Party
Nominations: Tuesday, 13 October 1953, Polling: Saturday, 31 October 1953
Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion
Alexander, Inglis Clyde	Ind Labor	1,101	6.69
Armstrong, Thomas (Elected)	Ind Labor	5,706	34.67	10,647	64.70
Arthur, Joshua	Labor Party	4,059	24.67
Olive, Douglas Charles	Communist	446	2.71
Quinlan, Harry Daniel Thomas	Liberal Party	5,144	31.26	5,809	35.30
Formal Votes		16,456
Informal Votes		428	2.53
Total Votes / Turnout		16,884	88.82
Cause Category: Resignation - Other
Notes: The by-election was caused by the resignation of J.G.Arthur, who had been found guilty by a Royal Commission of improper conduct in a business relationship with notorious confidence man Reginal Doyle. After the Royal Commission's finding, Arthur was expelled from the Labor Party rather than allowed to resign. (Newcastle Morning Herald, 22 August 1953, p.1) As a snub to the Labor Party, local party branches pre-selected Artur's father, also called Joshua. (Newcastle Morning Herald, 24 August, p.1) Note in this article, Arthur senior refers to having contested Newcastle in the multi-member period of the 1920s, but he must have meant he contested party pre-selection.