NSW Elections - 1944 Results

Manly - 1944 (Roll: 25,639)
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Final	%
Ind Democrat gain from Democratic Party
Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result
Dunn, James Patrick Digger	Labor Party	8,286	36.58	9,687	42.77
Reid, Alfred Albert Edward Ernest Vassa (Re-elected)	Ind Democrat	7,561	33.38	12,962	57.23
Stack, Stephen Harold	Democratic Party	5,246	23.16
White, Eric	Liberal Democratic	1,556	6.87
Formal Votes		22,649
Informal Votes		670	2.87
Total Votes / Turnout		23,319	90.95
Corrections: Sitting MP was not selected as a candidate for the Democratic Party, but nominated and ran as an Independent candidate, joining the Democratic Party after the election. He has been listed as an Independent Democratic candidate where Hughes and Graham (1975) list him as an Independent.