Electoral results for the district of Macquarie
Macquarie, until 1910 The Macquarie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1894, re-created in 1904, retaining nothing but the name, then abolished in 1920.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1894 | James Tonkin | Free Trade | |
1895 | William Hurley | Protectionist | |
1898 | |||
1901 | Progressive | ||
Election | Member | Party | |
1904 | Thomas Thrower | Labour | |
1907 | Charles Barton | Liberal Reform | |
1910 | Thomas Thrower | Labor | |
1913 | |||
1917 | |||
1917 by | Patrick McGirr | Labor |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1910s
[edit]1917 by-election
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Patrick McGirr | 3,521 | 50.8 | -0.1 | |
Nationalist | Murdock McLeod | 3,232 | 46.6 | -2.6 | |
Australian Producers Co-Operative Party | Frank Foster | 182 | 2.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,935 | 99.5 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 34 | 0.5 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 6,969 | 65.1 [a] | −7.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1917
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Thomas Thrower | 3,899 | 50.9 | +0.5 | |
Nationalist | Murdock McLeod | 3,769 | 49.1 | -0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 7,668 | 99.0 | +1.6 | ||
Informal votes | 80 | 1.0 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 7,748 | 72.4 | −7.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +0.5 |
1913
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Thomas Thrower | 4,055 | 50.4 | ||
Farmers and Settlers | Reginald Weaver [b] | 3,992 | 49.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,047 | 97.4 | |||
Informal votes | 216 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 8,263 | 79.7 | |||
Labor hold |
1910
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Thomas Thrower | 3,698 | 52.8 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Reform | James Burns | 3,311 | 47.2 | -3.3 | |
Total formal votes | 7,009 | 98.3 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 121 | 1.7 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 7,130 | 70.3 | −2.9 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Reform |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]1907
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Reform | Charles Barton | 3,344 | 50.5 | ||
Labour | Thomas Thrower | 3,279 | 49.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,623 | 98.0 | |||
Informal votes | 136 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 6,759 | 73.2 | |||
Liberal Reform gain from Labour |
1904
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Thomas Thrower | 2,566 | 50.2 | ||
Liberal Reform | Simeon Phillips | 2,476 | 48.5 | ||
Independent | John Collins | 38 | 0.7 | ||
Independent Liberal | Reginald Atkinson | 27 | 0.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 5,107 | 95.7 | |||
Informal votes | 230 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 5,337 | 63.2 | |||
Labour win | (new seat) |
District recreated
1901
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Progressive | William Hurley | 849 | 58.8 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Reform | John Miller | 594 | 41.2 | +4.8 | |
Total formal votes | 1,443 | 98.5 | +0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 22 | 1.5 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 1,465 | 59.1 | +2.8 | ||
Progressive hold |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]1898
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Federal | William Hurley | 724 | 55.1 | ||
Free Trade | Robert Thompson | 478 | 36.4 | ||
Independent | Francis Foster | 96 | 7.3 | ||
Independent | David Todd | 8 | 0.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | William Paul | 6 | 0.5 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Allen Carmichael | 2 | 0.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,314 | 97.9 | |||
Informal votes | 28 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,342 | 56.3 | |||
National Federal hold |
1895
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Protectionist | William Hurley | 575 | 42.8 | ||
Free Trade | James Tonkin | 438 | 32.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | William Paul | 233 | 17.4 | ||
Labour | Francis Foster | 97 | 7.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,343 | 99.2 | |||
Informal votes | 11 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,354 | 60.7 | |||
Protectionist gain from Free Trade |
1894
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Free Trade | James Tonkin | 637 | 38.6 | ||
Protectionist | William Hurley | 542 | 32.9 | ||
Labour | John Skelton | 237 | 14.4 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | John Hughes | 174 | 10.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Henry Brown | 60 | 3.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,650 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 28 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,678 | 74.3 | |||
Free Trade win | (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ based on an electoral roll of 10,704 at the 1917 state election.[5]
- ^ Also endorsed by Liberal Reform.
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1913 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1910 The Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1907 The Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1904 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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