Electoral results for the district of Surry Hills

1927 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Shannon	7,536	66.1
	Nationalist	William Adkins	3,694	32.4
	Independent	John Salmon	175	1.5
Total formal votes			11,405	98.6
Informal votes			164	1.4
Turnout			11,569	76.7
	Labor win		(new seat)

1917 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arthur Buckley	3,585	65.5	−0.1
	Nationalist	Percy Daly	1,550	28.3	+28.3
	Independent	Thomas Kohan	272	5.0	+5.0
	Independent	John Eaton	39	0.7	+0.7
	Ind. Socialist Labor	Ludwig Klausen	26	0.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			5,472	98.8	+0.5
Informal votes			66	1.2	−0.5
Turnout			5,538	47.1	−12.9
	Labor hold		Swing	−0.1

The sitting member Henry Hoyle (Nationalist) was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription,^[6] and did not contest the election.

1913 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Henry Hoyle	4,717	65.6
	Independent	William Walker	2,393	33.3
	Socialist Labor	Ludwig Klausen	82	1.1
Total formal votes			7,192	98.3
Informal votes			123	1.7
Turnout			7,315	60.0
	Labor hold

1910 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Hoyle	3,711	60.4	+25.1
	Liberal Reform	Sir James Graham (defeated)	2,399	39.0	+1.7
	Independent	John Eaton	38	0.6
Total formal votes			6,148	97.0	+0.7
Informal votes			191	3.0	−0.7
Turnout			6,339	67.6	−0.8
	Labour gain from Liberal Reform

1907 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Sir James Graham	2,227	37.3
	Labour	John Birt	2,104	35.3
	Independent	Paddy Crick	1,442	24.2
	Independent	George Perry	194	3.3
Total formal votes			5,967	96.3
Informal votes			230	3.7
Turnout			6,197	68.4
	Liberal Reform gain from Independent

John Norton (Independent) had won the seat at the 1904 election, however he challenged William Holman to face a by-election and was soundly defeated at the Surry Hills by-election in July 1906, finishing fourth behind Albert Bruntnell (Liberal Reform). At the 1907 general election Bruntnell chose to contest Alexandria but the seat was retained for Liberal Reform by Sir James Graham.

1906 Surry Hills by-election
Saturday 21 July ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Albert Bruntnell (elected)	1,109	30.5	−3.8
	Independent	Dick Meagher	961	26.4
	Labour	Henry Lawton	888	24.4
	Independent	John Norton (defeated)	679	18.7	−27.1
	Independent	James Jones	3	0.1
Total formal votes			3,640	98.9	+0.2
Informal votes			40	1.1	−0.2
Turnout			3,680	36.2 [a]	−20.8
	Liberal Reform gain from Independent		Swing

John Norton (Independent) challenged William Holman to resign and both would contest Holman's seat of Cootamundra.^[11]

1904 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Norton	2,646	45.8
	Liberal Reform	John Charles Waine	1,982	34.3
	Progressive	Arthur Nelson	513	8.9
	Independent Liberal	Richard Watkins Richards	403	7.0
	Independent	James Henry Lawrence	238	4.1
	Independent	James Bernard Black	2	0.0
Total formal votes			5,784	98.7
Informal votes			74	1.3
Turnout			5,858	57.0
	Independent win		(new seat)

Surry Hills was a new seat consisting of the abolished seat of Sydney-Flinders, which was expanded with part of Randwick and part of the abolished seat of Sydney-Cook.^[13] Arthur Nelson (Progressive) was the member for Sydney-Flinders while John Norton (Independent) was the member for Northumberland.