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Lachlan - 1944 (Roll: 12,355)
Retained by Labor Party
Not contested by both major parties
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Chanter, John Courtenay
(Re-elected)
Labor Party
7,525
73.02
Sligar, Joseph Leo
Ind Labor
2,780
26.98
Formal Votes
10,305
Informal Votes
719
6.52
Total Votes / Turnout
11,024
89.23
Corrections
: State Electorate Office listing show Sligar as a Lang Labor candidate, but both Hughes and Graham (1975) and Cunneen's study of the 1944 election list him as Independent Labor, the affiliation adopted here.