Electoral results for the district of Swan

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Swan in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Swan

Swan (1890–1950)
Member		Party	Term
	William Loton		1890–1897
	Norman Ewing	Independent	1897–1901
	Mathieson Jacoby	Independent	1901–1905
	Arthur Gull	Ministerial	1905–1908
	Mathieson Jacoby	Ministerial	1908–1911
	Philip Turvey	Labor	1911–1914
	William Ralph Nairn	Liberal (WA)	1914–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1921
	Richard Sampson	Country	1921–1923
		Country (MCP)	1923–1924
		Nationalist	1924–1931
		Country	1931–1944
	Ray Owen	Independent Country	1944–1947
	Gerald Wild	Liberal	1947–1949
		Liberal Country League	1949–1950
Swan (1962–1983)
Member		Party	Term
	John Brady	Labor	1962–1974
	John Skidmore	Labor	1974–1982
	Gordon Hill	Labor	1982–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

Swan state by-election, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Gordon Hill	7,491	59.9	+1.9
	Liberal	Richard Reynolds	3,962	31.7	-4.1
	Democrats	Ramsay Bogunovich	1,055	8.4	+8.4
Total formal votes			12,508	97.5	+1.7
Informal votes			319	2.5	-1.7
Turnout			12,827	75.5	-13.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

Western Australian state election, 1980: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Skidmore	8,737	58.0	+2.0
	Liberal	John George	5,387	35.8	-8.2
	National Country	Howard Wilcockson	737	4.9	+4.9
	Independent	Howard Bowra	195	1.3	+1.3
Total formal votes			15,056	95.8	-0.1
Informal votes			663	4.2	+0.1
Turnout			15,719	89.0	-1.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Skidmore	8,967	59.6	+3.6
	Liberal	John George	6,089	40.4	-3.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.6

Elections in the 1970s

Western Australian state election, 1977: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Skidmore	7,831	56.0
	Liberal	Peter Unger	6,143	44.0
Total formal votes			13,974	95.9
Informal votes			604	4.1
Turnout			14,578	90.6
	Labor hold		Swing	-6.4

Western Australian state election, 1974: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Skidmore	9,021	63.0
	Liberal	Douglas Ismail	4,244	29.6
	National Alliance	Pietro Bendotti	1,052	7.4
Total formal votes			14,317	93.9
Informal votes			926	6.1
Turnout			15,243	89.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Skidmore	9,179	64.1
	Liberal	Douglas Ismail	5,138	35.9
	Labor hold		Swing

Western Australian state election, 1971: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Brady	9,923	75.5	+4.5
	Democratic Labor	Paul McLaughlin	3,214	24.5	+24.5
Total formal votes			13,137	94.5	-3.3
Informal votes			761	5.5	+3.3
Turnout			13,898	91.4	-0.9
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1960s

Western Australian state election, 1968: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Brady	7,852	71.0
	Liberal and Country	John Pitsikas	3,201	29.0
Total formal votes			11,053	97.8
Informal votes			250	2.2
Turnout			11,303	92.3
	Labor hold		Swing

Western Australian state election, 1965: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Brady	6,863	66.3	-25.5
	Liberal and Country	Lindsay Ellis	3,208	31.0	+31.0
	Communist	Gordon Murray	284	2.7	-5.5
Total formal votes			10,355	95.6	+3.5
Informal votes			474	4.4	-3.5
Turnout			10,829	92.6	-1.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	John Brady	7,119	68.7	-23.1
	Liberal and Country	Lindsay Ellis	3,236	36.3	+36.3
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Western Australian state election, 1962: Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Brady	8,962	91.8
	Communist	Gordon Murray	805	8.2
Total formal votes			9,767	92.5
Informal votes			795	7.5
Turnout			10,562	94.1
	Labor hold		Swing

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