1930 Lane Cove state by-election

Election result for Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Lane Cove on 26 July 1930 because of the death of Bryce Walmsley (Nationalist).^[1]

Dates

Date	Event
21 June 1930	Death of Bryce Walmsley.^[1]
7 July 1930	Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and close of electoral rolls.^[2]
14 July 1930	Nominations
26 July 1930	Polling day
9 August 1930	Return of writ

1930 Lane Cove by-election
Saturday 26 July ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Herbert FitzSimons	5,775	43.5	-14.3
	Labor	Frederick Hutt	4,080	30.7	+8.0
	Australian	Frederick Dunn	3,399	25.6
	Independent	Theodore McLennan	30	0.2
Total formal votes			13,284	99.2	+0.6
Informal votes			113	0.8	-0.6
Turnout			13,397	72.8	-9.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Nationalist	Herbert FitzSimons	7,160	58.9
	Labor	Frederick Hutt	4,990	41.1
	Nationalist hold		Swing	+58.9

^ ^a ^b "Mr Bryce Crawford Walmsley (1881–1930)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Writ of election: Lane Cove". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 87. 7 July 1930. p. 2701. Retrieved 24 October 2019 – via Trove.
^ Green, Antony. "1930 Lane Cove by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2019.

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