1948 Sydney City Council election

March 2024 Sydney 4 December 1948 1944 Sydney City Council election 1944 1950 Sydney City Council election 1950 parliamentary no 75%Golder Hilary A short electoral history of the Sydney City Council https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/-/media/corporate/files/publications/history/history-of-sydney-city-council/hs_chos_electoral_history.pdf?download=true#:~:text=Since%20the%20City%20of%20Sydney,is%20far%20more%20than%20local. City of Sydney https://web.archive.org/web/20240313231044/https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/-/media/corporate/files/publications/history/history-of-sydney-city-council/hs_chos_electoral_history.pdf?download=true#:~:text=Since%20the%20City%20of%20Sydney,is%20far%20more%20than%20local. 13 March 2024 Ernest Charles O'Dea.jpg 140 120 150 0 12 Ernest Charles O'Dea Phillip Ward Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) 8 seats 7"phillipby" On 6 April 1945, Labor alderman Paddy Stokes (Phillip Ward) died. The by-election held on 5 May was won by Lang Labor candidate Horace Foley. 19 seats 12 Portrait of Alderman Reginald James Bartley, Lord Mayor of Sydney (1943-1944, 1946-1948).jpg 140 110 150 0 15 Reg Bartley Gipps Ward Civic Reform 00A2FF 12 seats 11Civic Reform alderman William Neville Harding (Macquarie Ward) left the CRA to form the City Progressives ahead of the election. 9 seats 2 150x150px Horace Foley Phillip Ward (lost seat) Lang Labor D6806B 0 seats 1"phillipby" 2 seats 1 The 1948 Sydney City Council election was held on 4 December 1948 to elect councillors to the City of Sydney, a local government area of New South Wales, Australia.City of Sydney poll result https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248349576 The Daily Telegraph 6 December 1948 Labor won a majority on council for the first time in 21 years, defeating the Civic Reform Association.City Council Election https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18087738 Sydney Morning Herald 8 December 1948 Although scheduled to be held as part of the statewide local elections in 1947, the election was delayed by a year.City Elections https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/886434 City of Sydney Kings Cross Times The usual triennial municipal elections due December 1947, were postponed by the Government for 12 months. Background In 1947, the state Labor government expanded the boundaries of the City of Sydney to include the following municipalities: Alexandria Darlington Erskineville Newtown Paddington Redfern The Glebe Waterloo This saw the number of councillors increase from 20 to 30. The existing five four-member wards − Fitzroy, Flinders, Gipps, Macquarie and Phillip − were unchanged, while another four were created: Newtown Ward (four councillors) Glebe Ward (two councillors) Redfern Ward (two councillors) Paddington Ward (two councillors) This was also the first Sydney City Council election to use first-past-the-post, replacing preferential voting. The change only lasted several years.FIRST PAST POST VOTING FOR COUNCIL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/274737832 Trove Daily Mirror Campaign Civic Reform campaigned against Labor on a message of "keeping local government in Sydney free of politics".ELECTION PLEDGE OF PARTY https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/274742314 Trove Daily Mirror 114 candidates contested the election, with seven different groups endorsing candidates:Labour gets control of Sydney Council https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47147165 The West Australian 6 December 1948City Council Election Candidates https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18091496 Sydney Morning Herald 13 November 1948Communist Candidates https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208113316 Tribune 13 November 1948 22em Australian Labor Party (Official Labor) City ProgressivesIn Fitzroy Ward, the City Progressives candidates were reported by The Sydney Morning Herald to be endorsed by the King's Cross Citizens and Ratepayers' Association. Civic Reform Association Communist Party of Australia Independent Lang Labor Lang Labor Social Justice Progressives Notes References Sydney Category:Sydney City Council elections