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Former state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia
Kembla was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales for a single term from 1968 to 1971, named after the Mount Kembla or Port Kembla. It replaced part of Wollongong-Kembla and Illawarra and was replaced by Illawarra. Its only member was George Petersen.[1][2][3]
Members for Kembla
Member | Party | Term | |
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George Petersen | Labor | 1968–1971 |
Election results
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Kembla.[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | George Petersen | 13,840 | 61.8 | ||
Liberal | Jack Walker | 6,292 | 28.1 | ||
Independent | Teresa Gibbons | 1,304 | 5.8 | ||
Communist | Melva Merletto | 561 | 2.5 | ||
Independent | Thomas Malcolm | 399 | 1.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 22,396 | 96.3 | |||
Informal votes | 864 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 23,260 | 94.6 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | George Petersen | 14,934 | 66.7 | ||
Liberal | Jack Walker | 7,462 | 33.3 | ||
Labor win | (new seat) |
References
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Mr (George) Wilfred George Petersen (1921–2000)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1968 Kembla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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