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Pittwater - 1976 (Roll: 30,218) Retained by Liberal Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Booth, John Edgar Workers Party 1,982 7.23 Wild, Charles Henry James Labor Party 8,176 29.81 Webster, Bruce Laurence (Re-elected) Liberal Party 16,798 61.24 Middlebrook, Peter McLaren Independents 473 1.72 Formal Votes 27,429 Informal Votes 368 1.32 Total Votes / Turnout 27,797 91.99 Notes: Sitting Liberal MP Bruce Webster resigned from Parliament on 21 July 1978, the vacancy in Pittwater becoming one of the triggers for an early state election on 7 October 1978.