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Botany - 1925 (Roll: 71,822) - 5 to be elected Candidate Party Votes % Quotas Final % Lee, John Robert (Re-elected 2) Nationalist 10,098 21.25 1.2752 7,919 16.67 Alexander, David Allen Nationalist 665 1.40 0.0840 Herford, William Nationalist 108 0.23 0.0136 Sinclair, James Nationalist 99 0.21 0.0125 Turner, Stephen Firth Nationalist 46 0.10 0.0058 Mutch, Thomas Davies (Re-elected 1) Labor Party 10,146 21.35 1.2812 7,919 16.67 McKell, William John (Re-elected 3) Labor Party 8,523 17.94 1.0763 7,919 16.67 Ratcliffe, Wilfred Joseph (Re-elected 4) Labor Party 5,726 12.05 0.7231 7,919 16.67 Long, William John Labor Party 4,284 9.02 0.5410 6,230 13.11 Burke, Francis Michael (Re-elected 5) Labor Party 4,017 8.45 0.5073 6,425 13.52 Bateman, Walter Samuel Protestant Labor 370 0.78 0.0467 Gallagher, Peter Ind Labor 3,034 6.39 0.3831 Liebau, Carl Geoff Majority Labor 63 0.13 0.0080 Denford, Henry Leigh Communist 147 0.31 0.0186 Rickie, Nellie Communist 111 0.23 0.0140 Strange-Mure, Arthur Charles Stuart Independent 76 0.16 0.0096 Formal Votes 47,513 Informal / Exhausted Votes 2,210 4.44 3,182 6.70 Total Votes / Turnout 49,723 69.23 Quota for election 7,919 Corrections: According to State Electoral Office records, the Daily Telegraph listed P.Gallagher as an Independent Labor candidate, where Hughes and Graham (1975) list him as an Independent. Given his preferences flowed solidly to Labor, the Independent Labor label has been used.