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Yaralla, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1968 and abolished in 1981.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Election		Party
1968	Lerryn Mutton	Liberal
1971
1973
1976
1978	Garry McIlwaine	Labor

Election results[edit]

Elections in the 1970s[edit]

1978[edit]

1978 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	16,219	56.5	+10.9
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	11,533	40.1	-14.3
	Democrats	Christopher Dunkerley	973	3.4	+3.4
Total formal votes			28,725	97.6	-0.2
Informal votes			697	2.4	+0.2
Turnout			29,422	92.5	+1.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	16,706	58.2	+12.6
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	12,019	41.8	-12.6
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+12.6

1976[edit]

1976 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	15,761	54.4	+0.6
	Labor	Derek Margerison	13,218	45.6	+7.0
Total formal votes			28,979	97.8	+0.1
Informal votes			662	2.2	-0.1
Turnout			29,641	91.4	+0.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.4

1973[edit]

1973 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	14,924	53.8	+3.0
	Labor	Derek Margerison	10,703	38.6	-3.5
	Democratic Labor	Terence McCormack	2,107	7.6	+0.5
Total formal votes			27,734	97.7
Informal votes			652	2.3
Turnout			28,386	91.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	16,590	59.8	+3.6
	Labor	Derek Margerison	11,144	40.2	-3.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.6

1971[edit]

1971 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	13,295	49.8	-1.8
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	11,500	43.1	+0.4
	Democratic Labor	Andrew Murphy	1,889	7.1	+1.4
Total formal votes			26,684	98.1
Informal votes			511	1.9
Turnout			27,195	93.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	14,661	54.9	-2.3
	Labor	Garry McIlwaine	12,023	45.1	+2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.3

Elections in the 1960s[edit]

1968[edit]

1968 New South Wales state election: Yaralla ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	12,355	50.6
	Labor	Thomas Murphy	10,671	43.7
	Democratic Labor	Maxwell Martin	1,381	5.7
Total formal votes			24,407	97.1
Informal votes			730	2.9
Turnout			25,137	94.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Lerryn Mutton	13,460	55.1	-1.0
	Labor	Thomas Murphy	10,947	44.9	+1.0
	Liberal win		(new seat)

Yaralla was a new seat, largely replacing the abolished district of Concord. The member for Concord was Thomas Murphy (Labor).

References[edit]

^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1978 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1976 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1973 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1971 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1968 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[Green_Yaralla-1] Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[2] "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

[3] "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[Results_of_the_1978_New_South_Wales_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_Green_1978_Yaralla-4] Green, Antony. "1978 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1976_New_South_Wales_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_Green_1976_Yaralla-5] Green, Antony. "1976 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1973_New_South_Wales_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_Green_1973_Yaralla-6] Green, Antony. "1973 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1971_New_South_Wales_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_Green_1971_Yaralla-7] Green, Antony. "1971 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1968_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1968_Yaralla-8] Green, Antony. "1968 Yaralla". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

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Electoral results for the former electoral districts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
North coast	Byron Casino Grafton Manning Hastings Hastings and Macleay Hastings and Manning Macleay Macquarie Murwillumbah Raleigh Richmond Rous
Hunter & Central Coast	Durham East Maitland Hamilton Hunter Kahibah Kurri Kurri Lower Hunter Morpeth Newcastle East Newcastle West North Eastern Boroughs Northumberland Northumberland and Hunter Northumberland Boroughs Patrick's Plains Paterson Peats Robertson Singleton Tuggerah West Maitland Wickham Wollombi Waratah Williams
Sydney North	Baulkham Hills Belmore Carlingford Central Cumberland Collaroy Cumberland Cumberland Boroughs Cumberland (North Riding) Earlwood Eastwood Ermington Fuller Gladesville Gordon Kirribilli Ku-ring-gai Middle Harbour Minchinbury Moorebank Mosman Mulgoa Nepean Neutral Bay Northcott North Sydney Seven Hills St Leonards St Marys Sherbrooke Sydney Hamlets The Hills Toongabbie Warringah Western Suburbs Windsor
Sydney City	Bligh Darling Harbour Darlinghurst East Sydney Elizabeth King McKell Phillip Port Jackson Pyrmont Sydney City Sydney-Belmore Sydney-Bligh Sydney-Cook Sydney-Denison Sydney-Fitzroy Sydney-Flinders Sydney-Gipps Sydney-King Sydney-Lang Sydney-Phillip Sydney-Pyrmont University of Sydney West Sydney
Sydney east	Alexandria Paddington Paddington-Waverley Randwick Surry Hills Waterloo Waverley Woollahra
Sydney south	Annandale Arncliffe Ashfield Ashfield-Croydon Balmain North Balmain South Bass Hill Burragorang Clyde Concord Cook's River Croydon Cumberland (South Riding) Darlington Dulwich Hill Enmore East Camden Eastern Suburbs Georges River Glebe Hurstville Ingleburn Lakemba Leichhardt Marrickville Menai Merrylands Narellan Newtown-Annandale Newtown-Camperdown Newtown-Erskine Newtown-St Peters Petersham Redfern Rozelle St George Smithfield South Sydney Sutherland Wentworthville West Camden Woronora Yaralla
Wollongong & south coast	Allowrie Bulli Bondi Botany Burwood Camperdown Corrimal Eden Eden-Bombala Illawarra Kembla Maneroo Moruya Munmorah St Vincent Shoalhaven United Counties of Murray and St Vincent Wollongong-Kembla
North west	Alma Armidale Bathurst (County) The Bogan Bourke Broken Hill Burrendong Carcoar Castlereagh Cobar Cook and Westmoreland Coonamble East Macquarie Glen Innes Gloucester Gloucester and Macquarie Goldfields North Gough Gunnedah Gwydir Hartley Inverell Liverpool Plains Liverpool Plains and Gwydir Moree Mudgee Namoi Narrabri New England New England and Macleay Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh Quirindi Roxburgh Rylstone Sturt Tenterfield Uralla-Walcha Western Boroughs Wilcannia Willyama
South west	Argyle Ashburnham Balranald Belubula Bingara Blayney Boorowa Bowral Braidwood Burrangong Burrinjuck Condoublin Corowa Cowra The Darling Deniliquin Forbes Goldfields South Goldfields West Grenfell Gundagai Hay Hume King and Georgiana Lachlan Lachlan and Lower Darling Lyndhurst Molong Murray-Darling Murrumbidgee Queanbeyan Southern Boroughs Southern Highlands Temora Tumut Wentworth Wynyard Yass Yass Plains Young
Queensland	Brisbane Burnett Clarence and Darling Downs Darling Downs East Moreton Ipswich Lachlan and Lower Darling Leichhardt, Queensland Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis Stanley Boroughs Stanley County West Moreton