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Castlereagh - 1981 (Roll: 34,313)
Retained by National Country Party
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Wotton, Roger Corfield Anson
(Re-elected)
National Country Party
16,636
53.38
Curran, James Lawrence
(Defeated)
Labor Party
14,529
46.62
Formal Votes
31,165
Informal Votes
461
1.46
Total Votes / Turnout
31,626
92.17
Notes
: One the new boundaries, this former Labor electorate had a National Country Party majority. The seat was contested by the sitting Labor MP for Castlereagh Jim Curran, and the sitting NCP MP for the abolished seat of Burrendong, Roger Wotton.