1928 Hamilton state by-election
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Electoral district of Hamilton in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 17,398 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 70.9% ( 14.1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1928 Hamilton state by-election was held on 8 September 1928 to elect the member for Hamilton in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, following the death of Labor Party MP David Murray.
Hamilton had been won by Labor with 58.6% of the vote when it was first contested at the 1927 state election. However, Labor lost more than 10% of its vote at the by-election and only narrowly retained the seat against Protestant Independent Labour Party candidate Walter Skelton, with James Smith elected with 51.2% of the two-candidate-preferred vote. Skelton would have likely won if all Nationalist Party voters exercised their second preferences, something they were not required to do under the optional preferential voting system.