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Balmain - 1981 (Roll: 29,613) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Paisio, Franco Australian Democrats 1,712 7.02 Degen, Roger Charles (Re-elected) Labor Party 14,444 59.21 Freney, Denis William Francis Communist 849 3.48 Street, Dianne Liberal Party 3,553 14.56 Donovan, James Socialist Party 676 2.77 Spedding, Douglas Independent 3,162 12.96 Formal Votes 24,396 Informal Votes 1,167 4.57 Total Votes / Turnout 25,563 86.32 Corrections: Based on Public Funding returns, Donovan is shown as a Socialist party of Australia candidate, where Hughes and Aitkin (1987) listed him as an Independent.