This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Swan in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Swan

Swan (1890–1950)
MemberPartyTerm
  William Loton None 1890–1897
  Norman Ewing Independent 1897–1901
  Mathieson Jacoby Independent 1901–1905
  Arthur Gull Ministerial 1905–1908
  Mathieson Jacoby Ministerial 1908–1911
  Philip Turvey Labor 1911–1914
  William Ralph Nairn Liberal 1914–1917
  Nationalist 1917–1921
  Richard Sampson Country 1921–1923
  Country (MCP) 1923–1924
  Nationalist 1924–1931
  Country 1931–1944
  Ray Owen Independent Country 1944–1947
  Gerald Wild Liberal 1947–1949
  Liberal Country League 1949–1950
Swan (1962–1983)
MemberPartyTerm
  John Brady Labor 1962–1974
  John Skidmore Labor 1974–1982
  Gordon Hill Labor 1982–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1982 Swan state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gordon Hill 7,491 59.9 +1.9
Liberal Richard Reynolds 3,962 31.7 -4.1
Democrats Ramsay Bogunovich 1,055 8.4 +8.4
Total formal votes 12,508 97.5 +1.7
Informal votes 319 2.5 -1.7
Turnout 12,827 75.5 -13.5
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1980 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Skidmore 8,737 58.0 +2.0
Liberal John George 5,387 35.8 -8.2
National Country Howard Wilcockson 737 4.9 +4.9
Independent Howard Bowra 195 1.3 +1.3
Total formal votes 15,056 95.8 -0.1
Informal votes 663 4.2 +0.1
Turnout 15,719 89.0 -1.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jack Skidmore 8,967 59.6 +3.6
Liberal John George 6,089 40.4 -3.6
Labor hold Swing+3.6

Elections in the 1970s

1977 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Skidmore 7,831 56.0
Liberal Peter Unger 6,143 44.0
Total formal votes 13,974 95.9
Informal votes 604 4.1
Turnout 14,578 90.6
Labor hold Swing-6.4
1974 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Skidmore 9,021 63.0
Liberal Douglas Ismail 4,244 29.6
National Alliance Pietro Bendotti 1,052 7.4
Total formal votes 14,317 93.9
Informal votes 926 6.1
Turnout 15,243 89.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jack Skidmore 9,179 64.1
Liberal Douglas Ismail 5,138 35.9
Labor hold Swing
1971 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Brady 9,923 75.5 +4.5
Democratic Labor Paul McLaughlin 3,214 24.5 +24.5
Total formal votes 13,137 94.5 -3.3
Informal votes 761 5.5 +3.3
Turnout 13,898 91.4 -0.9
Labor hold SwingN/A

Elections in the 1960s

1968 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Brady 7,852 71.0
Liberal and Country John Pitsikas 3,201 29.0
Total formal votes 11,053 97.8
Informal votes 250 2.2
Turnout 11,303 92.3
Labor hold Swing
1965 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Brady 6,863 66.3 -25.5
Liberal and Country Lindsay Ellis 3,208 31.0 +31.0
Communist Gordon Murray 284 2.7 -5.5
Total formal votes 10,355 95.6 +3.5
Informal votes 474 4.4 -3.5
Turnout 10,829 92.6 -1.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Brady 7,119 68.7 -23.1
Liberal and Country Lindsay Ellis 3,236 36.3 +36.3
Labor hold SwingN/A
1962 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Brady 8,962 91.8
Communist Gordon Murray 805 8.2
Total formal votes 9,767 92.5
Informal votes 795 7.5
Turnout 10,562 94.1
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gerald Wild 2,765 44.8 +44.8
Independent Ray Owen 2,653 43.0 +43.0
Country Edward Parker 751 12.2 -50.5
Total formal votes 6,169 97.0 +0.6
Informal votes 193 3.0 -0.6
Turnout 6,362 85.4 -7.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Gerald Wild 3,135 50.8 +50.8
Independent Ray Owen 3,034 49.2 +49.2
Liberal gain from Country SwingN/A
  • Swan was won in a by-election by Independent candidate Ray Owen upon the death of sitting Country member Richard Sampson.
1944 Swan state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Owen Hanlon 1,488 28.8 –8.5
Independent Country Ray Owen 1,377 26.6 +26.6
Independent Country Howard Sampson 988 19.1 +19.1
Country Hurtle Prater 563 10.9 –51.8
Independent John Thomas 465 9.0 +9.0
Nationalist Herbert Yelland 288 5.6 +5.6
Total formal votes 5,169 96.9 +0.5
Informal votes 165 3.1 –0.5
Turnout 5,334 80.4 –12.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Country Ray Owen 3,099 60.0 +60.0
Independent Country Howard Sampson 2,070 40.0 +40.0
Independent Country gain from Country Swingn/a
1943 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson 3,583 62.7 +16.8
Labor Owen Hanlon 2,128 37.3 +5.8
Total formal votes 5,711 96.4 -1.5
Informal votes 215 3.6 +1.5
Turnout 5,926 93.0 +3.4
Country hold Swing+0.7

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson 2,447 45.9 -54.1
Labor Harold Larwood 1,676 31.5 +31.5
Ind. Nationalist George North 1,206 22.6 +22.6
Total formal votes 5,329 97.9
Informal votes 115 2.1
Turnout 5,444 89.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Richard Sampson 3,306 62.0 -38.0
Labor Harold Larwood 2,023 38.0 +38.0
Country hold SwingN/A
1936 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson unopposed
Country hold Swing
1933 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson 2,731 65.8 -34.2
Nationalist William Orr 1,421 34.2 +34.2
Total formal votes 4,051 97.6
Informal votes 101 2.4
Turnout 4,253 89.3
Country gain from Nationalist SwingN/A
  • Richard Sampson was the sitting member for Swan that changed from the Nationalist to the Country party for this election.
1930 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Richard Sampson unopposed
Nationalist hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Richard Sampson 2,395 61.6 +3.7
Labor Charles Huntley 1,495 38.4 -3.7
Total formal votes 3,890 99.1 -0.1
Informal votes 35 0.9 +0.1
Turnout 3,925 71.7 +2.2
Nationalist hold Swing+3.7
1924 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson 1,875 57.9 +27.6
Labor William Logie 1,362 42.1 +12.1
Total formal votes 3,237 99.2 +1.5
Informal votes 25 0.8 -1.5
Turnout 3,262 69.5 +1.8
Country hold Swing-1.0
1921 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Richard Sampson 725 30.3 +30.3
Labor John Holman 719 30.0 +30.0
Nationalist Caryl Molyneux 301 12.6 -34.0
Country George Wilson 268 11.2 +11.2
Independent Neil Dungey 327 3.7 +3.7
Nationalist Fred Serisier 53 2.2 +2.2
Total formal votes 2,393 97.7 -1.8
Informal votes 56 2.3 +1.8
Turnout 2,449 67.7 +9.7
Two-party-preferred result
Country Richard Sampson 1,409 58.9 +58.9
Labor John Holman 984 41.1 +41.1
Country gain from Nationalist SwingN/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal William Nairn 1,004 53.4 +12.3
Nationalist Thomas Ilbery 876 46.6 +32.0
Total formal votes 1,880 99.5 +1.1
Informal votes 10 0.5 –1.1
Turnout 1,890 58.0 –9.5
National Liberal hold Swing–0.1
  • Nairn's designation at the 1914 election was simply "Liberal", rather than "National Liberal".
1914 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Philip Turvey 1,186 44.3 -6.9
Liberal William Nairn 1,100 41.1 -7.7
Independent Thomas Ilbery 392 14.6 +14.6
Total formal votes 2,678 98.4 -1.2
Informal votes 44 1.6 +1.2
Turnout 2,722 67.5 -10.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal William Nairn 1,433 53.5 +4.7
Labor Philip Turvey 1,245 46.5 -4.7
Liberal gain from Labor Swing+4.7
1911 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Philip Turvey 1,012 51.2
Ministerial Mathieson Jacoby 963 48.8
Total formal votes 1,975 99.6
Informal votes 7 0.4
Turnout 1,982 77.8
Labor gain from Ministerial Swing

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial Mathieson Jacoby 677 40.0 -8.1
Ministerial Arthur Gull 391 23.1 -28.8
Ministerial Archibald Sanderson 328 19.4 +19.4
Labor Hugh Linnanne 297 17.5 +17.5
Total formal votes 1,693 99.0 -0.8
Informal votes 17 1.0 +0.8
Turnout 1,710 53.2 +18.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
Ministerial Mathieson Jacoby 892 58.7 +10.6
Ministerial Arthur Gull 627 41.2 -10.6
Ministerial hold Swing+10.6
1905 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial Arthur Gull 469 51.9 +51.9
Ministerial Mathieson Jacoby 434 48.1 +48.1
Total formal votes 903 99.8 +0.8
Informal votes 2 0.2 –0.8
Turnout 906 34.4 –10.3
Ministerial hold SwingN/A
1904 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Mathieson Jacoby 712 58.6 +13.9
Independent William Leslie 503 41.4 +41.4
Total formal votes 1,215 99.0 +1.6
Informal votes 12 1.0 –1.6
Turnout 1,227 44.7 –0.3
Independent hold Swing+13.9
1901 Western Australian state election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Opposition Mathieson Jacoby 249 44.7 +44.7
Ministerial Robert Wolfe 128 23.0 +23.0
Labor George Hogarth 115 20.6 +20.6
Independent William Thomas 44 7.9 +7.9
Ministerial Hugh McKernan 21 3.8 +3.8
Total formal votes 557 97.4 ±0.0
Informal votes 15 2.6 ±0.0
Turnout 572 45.0 –6.5
Opposition gain from Independent Swing+44.7

Elections in the 1890s

1897 Western Australian colonial election: Swan [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Norman Ewing 116 38.4
Ministerial William Johnson 91 30.1
Ministerial James Morrison 82 27.2
Ministerial James Huelin 13 4.3
Total formal votes 302 97.4
Informal votes 8 2.6
Turnout 310 51.5
Independent hold Swing
1894 Western Australian colonial election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None William Loton unopposed
1890 Western Australian colonial election: Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None William Loton 83 55.3 n/a
None Samuel Hamersley 67 44.7 n/a

References

  1. ↑ "The Swan electorate". Western Mail. 7 May 1897. p. 15. Retrieved 25 July 2022 – via Trove.
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