Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, No absolute majority for winning candidate
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Loughlin, Peter Ffrench (Defeated)
Ind Labor
4,082
33.02
4,542
49.67
McCarthy, George Frederick
Labor Party
3,932
31.80
Reid, Albert David (Elected)
Country Party
4,349
35.18
4,603
50.33
Formal Votes
12,363
Informal / Exhausted Votes
104
0.83
3,218
26.03
Total Votes / Turnout
12,467
84.30
Notes: Loughlin had been a Labor MP for the multi-member electorate of Cootamundra, but left the party amidst the bitter factional fights of 1927. He contested as an Independent Labor MP.