Electoral results for the district of Merrylands

Merrylands, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1959 to 1962 and from 1968 to 1988.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Election	Member		Party
1959		Jack Ferguson	Labor

Election	Member		Party
1968		Jack Ferguson	Labor
1971
1973
1976
1978
1981
1984		Geoff Irwin	Labor

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Geoff Irwin	17,874	63.7	−11.6
	Liberal	Garo Gabrielian	8,159	29.1	+4.4
	Independent	Alan Byers	2,045	7.3	+7.3
Total formal votes			28,078	96.0	+0.7
Informal votes			1,156	4.0	−0.7
Turnout			29,234	93.9	+1.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Geoff Irwin		67.4	−7.9
	Liberal	Garo Gabrielian		32.6	+7.9
	Labor hold		Swing	−7.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	20,732	75.3	−1.1
	Liberal	Alan Byers	6,794	24.7	+5.4
Total formal votes			27,526	95.3
Informal votes			1,370	4.7
Turnout			28,896	92.4
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	25,469	76.4	+11.3
	Liberal	John Melouney	6,426	19.3	−15.6
	Democrats	Norma Wade	1,447	4.3	+4.3
Total formal votes			33,342	97.0	−0.5
Informal votes			1,046	3.0	+0.5
Turnout			34,388	93.9	−0.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	26,193	78.6	+13.5
	Liberal	John Melouney	7,149	21.4	−13.5
	Labor hold		Swing	+13.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	21,435	65.1	+7.0
	Liberal	Rodney Lewis	11,487	34.9	−1.5
Total formal votes			32,922	97.5	+1.2
Informal votes			854	2.5	−1.2
Turnout			33,776	94.4	+2.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	17,770	58.1	−9.1
	Liberal	Garry Dent	11,140	36.4	+3.6
	Australia	Geoffrey Thomas	1,682	5.5	+5.5
Total formal votes			30,592	96.3
Informal votes			1,160	3.7
Turnout			31,752	92.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	18,947	61.9	−5.3
	Liberal	Garry Dent	11,645	38.1	+5.3
	Labor hold		Swing	−5.3

Electoral results for the district of Merrylands

Elections in the 1980s

1984

1981

Elections in the 1970s

1978

1976

1973

1971

Elections in the 1970s

1968

1962 - 1968

Elections in the 1950s

1959

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	19,002	67.2	+3.9
	Liberal	Neville Hodsdon	9,259	32.8	−3.9
Total formal votes			28,261	96.8
Informal votes			940	3.2
Turnout			29,201	93.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	17,326	63.3
	Liberal	Stanislaus Kelly	10,048	36.7
Total formal votes			27,374	96.4
Informal votes			1,031	3.6
Turnout			28,405	94.1
	Labor win		(new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Jack Ferguson	14,785	56.0
	Liberal	Graham Cullis	11,636	44.0
Total formal votes			26,421	98.0
Informal votes			546	2.0
Turnout			26,967	94.7
	Labor notional hold

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