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Bligh - 1962 (Roll: 24,638) Labor Party gain from Liberal Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Markham, James Robert D.L.P. 1,012 4.54 Morey, Thomas Irving (Elected) Labor Party 11,186 50.17 Treatt, Vernon Haddon (Defeated) Liberal Party 10,098 45.29 Formal Votes 22,296 Informal Votes 411 1.81 Total Votes / Turnout 22,707 92.16 Notes: New seat created from the abolished electorates of Woollahra and Paddington-Waverley. The Labor MP for Paddington-Waverley, K.W.Anderson, was defeated for Labor Party pre-selection. Vernon Treatt was the sitting Liberal MP for the abolished electorate of Woollahra.