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Lachlan - 1981 (Roll: 31,214) Retained by National Country Party Candidate Party Votes % Final % West, Timothy Henry Labor Party 11,642 41.31 Armstrong, Ian Morton (Elected) National Country Party 16,538 58.69 Formal Votes 28,180 Informal Votes 672 2.33 Total Votes / Turnout 28,852 92.43 Notes: New electorate that took in large parts of the abolished electorates of Temora and Young. The NCP members for both seats, J.H.Taylor and G.F. Freudenstein, chose to retire.