Electoral results for the district of North Sydney

1959 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ray Maher	10,694	49.8
	Liberal	Russell Newton	9,513	44.3
	Democratic Labor	Michael Fitzpatrick	899	4.2
	Independent	Francis Ferry	377	1.7
Total formal votes			21,483	97.6
Informal votes			526	2.4
Turnout			22,009	93.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ray Maher	11,026	51.3
	Liberal	Russell Newton	10,457	48.7
	Labor hold		Swing

1956 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ray Maher	9,827	48.6	+16.2
	Liberal	Peter Murphy	9,771	48.3	+13.4
	Communist	Bill Wood	637	3.1	+3.1
Total formal votes			20,235	98.5	+1.0
Informal votes			302	1.5	−1.0
Turnout			20,537	93.2	−0.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ray Maher	10,281	50.8	−5.2
	Liberal	Peter Murphy	9,954	49.2	+5.2
	Labor hold		Swing	−5.2

1953 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Trevor Humphries	7,377	34.9
	Labor	Ray Maher	6,842	32.4
	Independent Labor	James Geraghty	6,718	31.8
	Independent	Norman Jacobs	187	0.9
Total formal votes			21,124	97.5
Informal votes			551	2.5
Turnout			21,675	93.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ray Maher	11,837	56.0
	Liberal	Trevor Humphries	9,287	44.0
	Labor gain from Independent Labor		Swing

1950 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bjarne Halvorsen	8,367	41.6
	Independent Labor	James Geraghty	7,829	38.9
	Labor	Ray Maher	3,921	19.5
Total formal votes			20,117	98.5
Informal votes			301	1.5
Turnout			20,418	93.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent Labor	James Geraghty	11,354	56.4
	Liberal	Bjarne Halvorsen	8,763	43.6
	Member changed to Independent Labor from Labor		Swing	N/A

The sitting member was James Geraghty who had been elected as a Labor candidate, however he was disendorsed as a result of voting in the election for the Legislative Council and stood as an Independent labor candidate.[7]

1947 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	James Geraghty	11,867	49.3	+3.6
	Liberal	William Travers	11,105	46.1	+11.9
	Communist	Bill Wood	1,100	4.6	+4.6
Total formal votes			24,072	98.6	+2.1
Informal votes			332	1.4	-2.1
Turnout			24,404	94.7	+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	James Geraghty	12,717	52.8	-4.5
	Liberal	William Travers	11,355	47.2	+4.5
	Labor hold		Swing	-4.5

1944 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	James Geraghty	9,844	45.7	+1.7
	Democratic	William Harding	7,358	34.2	-9.9
	Lang Labor	Ainslie Beecraft	3,095	14.4	+14.4
	Liberal Democratic	Ebenezer Minnis	1,244	5.8	+5.8
Total formal votes			21,541	96.5	-1.6
Informal votes			782	3.5	+1.6
Turnout			22,323	94.6	+2.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	James Geraghty	12,333	57.3	+3.4
	Democratic	William Harding	9,208	42.7	-3.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.4

1941 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Hubert Primrose	9,112	44.1
	Labor	James Geraghty	9,090	44.0
	State Labor	William Wilson	2,448	11.9
Total formal votes			20,650	98.1
Informal votes			399	1.9
Turnout			21,049	92.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	James Geraghty	11,122	53.9
	United Australia	Hubert Primrose	9,528	46.1
	Labor gain from United Australia		Swing

1938 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Hubert Primrose	10,836	58.5	+2.9
	Labor	Henry Clayden	7,692	41.5	+4.4
Total formal votes			18,528	97.9	+0.4
Informal votes			399	2.1	-0.4
Turnout			18,927	94.7	-1.7
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

1935 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Hubert Primrose	9,773	55.6	-3.0
	Labor (NSW)	Ben Howe	6,518	37.1	+1.4
	Independent UAP	Leslie Dare	736	4.2	+4.2
	Federal Labor	Thomas Lavelle	537	3.1	-0.1
Total formal votes			17,564	97.5	-0.4
Informal votes			448	2.5	+0.4
Turnout			18,012	96.4	+0.1
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1932 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	Hubert Primrose	9,943	58.6	+12.7
	Labor (NSW)	Ben Howe	6,052	35.7	-16.4
	Federal Labor	Cecil Murphy	544	3.2	+3.2
	Independent	Lucy Gullett	332	2.0	+2.0
	Independent	Edward Clark	89	0.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			16,960	97.9	+1.1
Informal votes			367	2.1	-1.1
Turnout			17,327	96.3	+2.3
	United Australia gain from Labor (NSW)		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1930 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ben Howe	8,739	52.1
	Nationalist	Ernest Marks	7,696	45.9
	Independent	Alfred Waterhouse	252	1.5
	Communist	John Loughran	45	0.3
	Independent	Thomas Taprell	32	0.2
Total formal votes			16,764	96.8
Informal votes			562	3.2
Turnout			17,326	94.0
	Labor gain from Nationalist		Swing

1927 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Ernest Marks	6,704	53.2
	Labor	Ben Howe	5,850	46.4
	Independent	Harry Meatheringham	43	0.3
Total formal votes			12,597	98.9
Informal votes			144	1.1
Turnout			12,741	79.6
	Nationalist win		(new seat)