Electoral results for the district of Newcastle West
Appearance
Newcastle West, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1904.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1894 | James Ellis | Free Trade | |
1895 | James Thomson | Labour | |
1898 | |||
1901 | Owen Gilbert | Liberal Reform |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1900s
[edit]1901
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | Owen Gilbert | 802 | 57.9 | ||
Progressive | Emmanuel Flynn | 316 | 22.8 | -23.6 | |
Labour | Thomas Green | 267 | 19.3 | -34.3 | |
Total formal votes | 1,385 | 99.4 | −0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 9 | 0.7 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 1,394 | 70.8 | +7.5 | ||
Liberal Reform gain from Labour |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]1898
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Thomson | 580 | 53.6 | ||
National Federal | James Ellis | 502 | 46.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,082 | 99.8 | |||
Informal votes | 2 | 0.2 | |||
Turnout | 1,084 | 63.3 | |||
Labour hold |
1895
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Thomson | 329 | 29.6 | ||
Free Trade | James Blanksby | 317 | 28.5 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | James Ellis | 249 | 22.4 | ||
Protectionist | David Scott | 193 | 17.3 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | Alfred Asher | 25 | 2.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,113 | 99.4 | |||
Informal votes | 7 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,120 | 75.2 | |||
Labour gain from Free Trade |
1894
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | James Ellis | 428 | 31.5 | ||
Labour | James Thompson | 327 | 24.0 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | James Blanksby | 268 | 19.7 | ||
Protectionist | William Grahame | 226 | 16.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | George Webb | 112 | 8.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,361 | 99.1 | |||
Informal votes | 13 | 1.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,374 | 89.7 | |||
Free Trade win | (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Newcastle West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Newcastle West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Newcastle West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Newcastle West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Newcastle West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.