Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Beale, Jack Gordon (Re-elected)
Liberal Party
10,807
49.92
13,289
61.38
Seiffert, John Edward
Labor Party
7,407
34.21
8,361
38.62
Shirley, Charles Frederick
Ind Liberal
3,436
15.87
Formal Votes
21,650
Informal Votes
203
0.93
Total Votes / Turnout
21,853
94.41
Notes: C.F.Shirley was a local councillor who campiagned on giving voters a choice over a local Liberal MP rather than leave it in 'the hands of a small group of Liberal Party members loyal to Beale'.
Corrections: Hughes and Graham (1975) list Shirley as an Independent rather than an Independent Liberal.