Electoral results for the district of Alexandria

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Alexandria, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, the first from 1904 to 1920, the second from 1927 to 1930. [1] [2]

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First incarnation (1904–1920)
ElectionMemberParty
1904   John Dacey Labor
1907
1910
1912 by Simon Hickey
1913
1917
 
Second incarnation (1927–1930)
1927   Bill Ratcliffe Labor

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1927

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1927 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bill Ratcliffe 8,37067.6
Nationalist Ernest Kidd4,01832.4
Total formal votes12,38898.8
Informal votes1501.2
Turnout 12,53882.7
Labor win(new seat)

Bill Ratcliffe was one of five sitting MPs for Botany. [3]

District recreated

1920 - 1927

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

1917

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1917 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Simon Hickey 3,67069.9-0.1
Nationalist Sydney Smith 1,38826.4+26.4
Independent James Dixon1893.6-16.6
Total formal votes5,24799.1+1.9
Informal votes500.9−1.9
Turnout 5,29753.9−0.4
Labor hold Swing -0.1

Sitting Labor MP Simon Hickey was returned with a slightly reduced majority. Sydney Smith was a former member for East Macquarie, Bathurst, Canterbury and federal member for Macquarie. [4]

1913

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1913 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Simon Hickey 3,78570.0
Independent Liberal James Dixon1,09220.2
Independent Joseph Warner5299.8
Total formal votes5,40697.2
Informal votes1582.8
Turnout 5,56454.3
Labor hold 

Sitting Labor MP Simon Hickey was returned with an increased majority. [5]

1912 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1912 Alexandria state by-election § Results.[ edit ]
1912 Alexandria by-election

Saturday 18 May  [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Simon Hickey 3,43765.4-3.3
Liberal Reform William Ferguson 1,69532.2+1.3
Socialist Arthur Duffield701.3
Independent James Dixon561.1
Total formal votes5,25897.3+0.2
Informal votes1472.7−0.2
Turnout 5,40555.6  [lower-alpha 1] −9.5
Labour hold Swing

The by-election was caused by the death of John Dacey. [8] Simon Hickey was Dacey's son-in-law. William Ferguson was a former member for Sturt who had been a member of Labor until switching to Liberal reform in 1904. [6]

Elections in the 1900s

1910

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1910 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Dacey 4,22568.7+13.7
Liberal Reform George Smith1,89730.9-11.9
Independent James Horne250.4
Total formal votes6,14797.1−0.6
Informal votes1862.9+0.6
Turnout 6,33365.2−6.6
Labour hold Swing +13.7

Sitting Labor MP John Dacey was returned with an increased majority. [7]

1907

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1907 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Dacey 3,52355.0
Liberal Reform Albert Bruntnell 2,74242.8
Independent Joseph Edward Warner1191.9
Independent Patrick Joseph Craddock100.2
Independent Alexander Bryson80.1
Total formal votes6,29097.7
Informal votes1472.3
Turnout 6,43771.7
Labour hold 

Albert Bruntnell had been elected MP for Surry Hills at the 1906 by-election. [9]

1904

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Alexandria.[ edit ]
1904 New South Wales state election: Alexandria   [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Dacey 2,85949.8
Progressive George Anderson 2,74247.8
Independent Thomas Edwards901.6
Socialist Labor John Wilcox490.9
Total formal votes5,74099.4
Informal votes360.6
Turnout 5,77664.2
Labour win(new seat)
Alexandria was a new seat, comprising parts of the seat of Botany and the abolished seats of Darlington, Newtown-Erskine and Waterloo. John Dacey was the member for Botany who had lost Labour pre-selection for that seat, while George Anderson was the member for the abolished seat of Waterloo. The member for Darlington was Phillip Sullivan (Labour) who successfully contested Phillip while the member for Newtown-Erskine was Robert Hollis (Labour) who successfully contested Newtown.

Notes

  1. ↑ estimate based on an electoral roll of 9,721 at the 1910 election. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1927 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1917 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1913 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1912 Alexandria by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 Green, Antony. "1910 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Mr John Rowland Dacey (1854–1912)". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  9. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1907 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  10. ↑ Green, Antony. "1904 Alexandria". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
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