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Coogee - 1976 (Roll: 34,531) Retained by Labor Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % Cleary, Michael Arthur (Re-elected) Labor Party 16,265 53.68 Billings, Phillip Kentwell Liberal Party 14,036 46.32 Formal Votes 30,301 Informal Votes 662 2.14 Total Votes / Turnout 30,963 89.67 Notes: The Liberal Party had won Coogee by just 8 votes in 1973, a margin that was incapable of withstanding a Court of Disputed Returns challenge. Labor won the subsequent by-election in July 1974.