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Paddington-Waverley - 1959 (Roll: 24,050) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Cole, Jack Liberal Party 6,490 30.73 Ferguson, William John (Re-elected) Labor Party 13,235 62.67 Hutchings, Cyril Michael Independents 737 3.49 Rosen, Bernard Wolfe Communist 657 3.11 Formal Votes 21,119 Informal Votes 622 2.86 Total Votes / Turnout 21,741 90.40 Notes: Ferguson was the sitting Labor MP for the abolished electorate of Waverley. Paddington was also abolished, but its Labor MP Maurice O'Sullivan retired.