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Botany - 1927 (Roll: 14,020)
Ind Labor gain from Labor Party
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Blackburn, Benjamin
Nationalist
374
3.04
Heffron, Robert James
Labor Party
5,661
45.96
Mutch, Thomas Davies
(Re-elected)
Ind Labor
6,281
51.00
Formal Votes
12,316
Informal Votes
114
0.92
Total Votes / Turnout
12,430
88.66
Notes
: Mutch was one of the sitting Labor MPs for the multi-member Botany electorate. He ran as an Independent Labor candidate after being denied Labor pre-selection in a bitter ballot surrounded by accusations of rorting.