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Pittwater - 1976 (Roll: 30,218)
Retained by Liberal Party
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Booth, John Edgar
Workers Party
1,982
7.23
Wild, Charles Henry James
Labor Party
8,176
29.81
Webster, Bruce Laurence
(Re-elected)
Liberal Party
16,798
61.24
Middlebrook, Peter McLaren
Independents
473
1.72
Formal Votes
27,429
Informal Votes
368
1.32
Total Votes / Turnout
27,797
91.99
Notes
: Sitting Liberal MP Bruce Webster resigned from Parliament on 21 July 1978, the vacancy in Pittwater becoming one of the triggers for an early state election on 7 October 1978.