1956 New South Wales state election
Seats changing party representation
‡ The seat of Kahibah was won by Independent Labor candidate Tom Armstrong at the 1953 by-election caused by the resignation of Labor's Joshua Arthur

1956 New South Wales state election

Section Title: Seats changing party representation
Table Section Text: ‡ The seat of Kahibah was won by Independent Labor candidate Tom Armstrong at the 1953 by-election caused by the resignation of Labor's Joshua Arthur

Seat	Incumbent member	Party	New member	Party

Armidale	Jim Cahill	Labor	Davis Hughes	Country Party

Coogee	Lou Walsh	Labor	Kevin Ellis	Liberal

Drummoyne	Roy Jackson	Labor	Walter Lawrence	Liberal

Georges River	Frank O'Neill	Labor	Douglas Cross	Liberal

Hartley	Jim Chalmers	Independent Labor	James Robson	Labor

Kahibah	‡	Labor	Tom Armstrong	Independent Labor

Parramatta	Kevin Morgan	Labor	James Clough	Liberal

Sutherland	Tom Dalton	Labor	Ian Griffith	Liberal

Waratah	Robert Cameron	Labor	Frank Purdue	Independent

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Labor gained the seat of Hartley from Independent Labor member Jim Chalmers.

final_sentence: Labor gained the seat of Hartley from Independent Labor member Jim Chalmers.