Annandale, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, the first from 1894 to 1920, the second from 1927 to 1950. [1] [2] [3]
First incarnation (1894–1920) | |||
---|---|---|---|
Election | Member | Party | |
1894 | William Mahony | Free Trade | |
1895 | |||
1898 | |||
1901 | Liberal Reform | ||
1904 | |||
1907 | |||
1910 | Albert Bruntnell | Liberal Reform | |
1913 | Arthur Griffith | Labor | |
1917 | William O'Brien | Labor | |
Second incarnation (1927–1950) | |||
1927 | Robert Stuart-Robertson | Labor | |
1930 | |||
1931 by | |||
1932 | Labor (NSW) | ||
1933 by | Bob Gorman | Labor (NSW) | |
1935 | |||
1938 | Labor / Labor (N-C) | ||
1941 | Labor | ||
1944 | |||
1947 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Bob Gorman | 11,336 | 57.4 | +1.2 | |
Lang Labor | George Stanley | 8,426 | 42.6 | +6.1 | |
Total formal votes | 19,762 | 95.5 | +0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 937 | 4.5 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 20,699 | 94.8 | +3.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
Sitting Labor MP Bob Gorman was returned with an increased majority [4] defeating Lang Labor candidate George Stanley, a first time candidate who never stood again. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Bob Gorman | 10,089 | 56.2 | -19.5 | |
Lang Labor | Ross Pryor | 6,558 | 36.5 | +36.5 | |
Independent | Arthur Hagen | 1,322 | 7.4 | +7.4 | |
Total formal votes | 17,969 | 94.7 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 1,010 | 5.3 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 18,979 | 91.8 | +1.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
Sitting Labor MP Bob Gorman was returned with a significantly reduced majority [6] defeating Lang Labor candidate Ross Pryor and Independent Arthur Hagen two first time candidates who never stood again. [7] [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Bob Gorman | 13,018 | 75.7 | ||
Independent | Stanley Moran | 2,244 | 13.1 | ||
New Social Order | Harry Blackwell | 1,926 | 11.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 17,188 | 94.3 | |||
Informal votes | 1,036 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 18,224 | 90.5 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Sitting Labor MP Bob Gorman was returned with an increased majority [9] defeating Independent candidate Stanley Moran who stood as a Communist in the 1932 election in the seat of Glebe [10] and first time New Social Order candidate Harry Blackwell who never stood again. [11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Bob Gorman | unopposed | |||
Labor hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor (NSW) | Bob Gorman | 11,075 | 71.4 | +8.3 | |
Federal Labor | John Keegan | 4,431 | 28.6 | +22.4 | |
Total formal votes | 15,506 | 95.3 | -1.7 | ||
Informal votes | 767 | 4.7 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 16,273 | 95.5 | -0.1 | ||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing | N/A |
Sitting State Labor MP Bob Gorman was returned with an increased majority [13] defeating John Keegan who stood as the Federal Labor candidate in the 1932 election in the seat of Georges River. [14]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor (NSW) | Bob Gorman | 9,517 | 66.34 | ||
Federal Labor | Percival McDonald | 3,819 | 26.62 | ||
Unificationist | Harry Cotter | 543 | 3.79 | ||
Communist | Thomas Wright | 466 | 3.25 | ||
Total formal votes | 14,345 | 95.30 | |||
Informal votes | 708 | 4.70 | |||
Turnout | 15,053 | 86.96 | |||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor (NSW) | Robert Stuart-Robertson | 9,937 | 63.1 | -14.4 | |
United Australia | Leo Bolsdon | 4,614 | 29.3 | +9.1 | |
Federal Labor | Percival McDonald | 977 | 6.2 | +6.2 | |
Communist | Robert Brechin | 175 | 1.1 | -1.2 | |
Independent | Harry Meatheringham | 22 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Christopher Hade | 13 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Total formal votes | 15,738 | 97.0 | -0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 484 | 3.0 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 16,222 | 95.6 | +1.7 | ||
Labor (NSW) hold | Swing | N/A |
In 1931, the New South Wales Labor Party split from Federal Labor to form the Australian Labor Party (NSW) led by Jack Lang. In this election, Federal Labor ran candidates in 43 seats but none were elected. Sitting MP Robert Stuart-Robertson was returned with a reduced majority [16] defeating four first time candidates: Leo Bolsdon from the UAP, [17] Communist Robert Brechin, [18] Independent Christopher Hade [8] and the Federal Labor candidate Percival McDonald. [19] Bolsdon and Hade never stood again. He also defeated Independent Harry Meatheringham standing in his sixth and final election. [20]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Robert Stuart-Robertson (re-elected) | 8,864 | 68.44 | ||
Independent | Martha Simpson | 3,237 | 24.99 | ||
Independent | Harry David Meatheringham | 428 | 3.30 | ||
Communist | William John Morrison | 423 | 3.27 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,952 | 93.28 | |||
Informal votes | 933 | 6.72 | |||
Turnout | 13,885 | 80.34 [lower-alpha 1] | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Robert Stuart-Robertson | 12,246 | 77.5 | ||
Nationalist | Osterley Thompson | 3,194 | 20.2 | ||
Communist | Mary Lamm | 362 | 2.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 15,802 | 97.6 | |||
Informal votes | 383 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 16,185 | 93.9 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Sitting Labor MP Robert Stuart-Robertson was returned with a significant increased majority, [22] defeating Nationalist Osterley Thompson and Communist Mary Lamm, two first time candidates who never stood again. [23] [24]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Robert Stuart-Robertson | 6,934 | 56.0 | ||
Nationalist | Edward Hogan | 5,454 | 44.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 12,388 | 99.0 | |||
Informal votes | 120 | 1.0 | |||
Turnout | 12,508 | 82.7 | |||
Labor win | (new seat) |
Sitting Labor MP for Balmain Robert Stuart-Robertson defeated Nationalist Edward Hogan, [25] a first time candidate who did not stand again. [26]
District abolished
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | William O'Brien | 3,762 | 51.0 | -3.0 | |
Independent Labor | Arthur Griffith | 3,608 | 49.0 | +49.0 | |
Total formal votes | 7,370 | 99.0 | +0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 77 | 1.0 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,447 | 64.7 | -9.2 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | -3.0 |
Sitting MP and senior cabinet minister on the Holman government Arthur Griffith had left the Labor Party in the conscription split of 1916 but did not follow William Holman into the Nationalist Party instead becoming an Independent Labor. In the election, Griffith was defeated by William O'Brien, [27] a first time Labor candidate. When the seat was abolished in 1920, O'Brien went onto serve two terms as one of the MPs for Murray. [29]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Arthur Griffith | 4,741 | 54.0 | ||
Liberal Reform | Albert Bruntnell | 3,935 | 44.8 | ||
Independent | John Strachan | 101 | 1.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,777 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 161 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 8,938 | 73.9 | |||
Labor gain from Liberal Reform |
This was Strachan's second attempt at running for office. He previously stood as an independent in the 1898 election in the seat of Sydney-Lang. [31] Sitting Liberal Reform MP Albert Bruntnell was defeated by the sitting Labor MP for Sturt, Arthur Griffith. [30]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | Albert Bruntnell | 4,321 | 51.2 | ||
Labour | George Davidson | 4,121 | 48.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,442 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 157 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 8,599 | 72.5 | |||
Liberal Reform hold |
The 6-term sitting Liberal Reform MP William Mahony retired and did not contest this election. [32] Former Liberal Reform MP for Surry Hills Albert Bruntnell, who ran for the seat of Alexandria in 1907 and lost, [33] defeated Labor's George Davidson, a first time candidate who did not stand again. [34]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | William Mahony | 3,567 | 54.9 | ||
Independent | Isaiah Cohen | 2,933 | 45.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,500 | 97.0 | |||
Informal votes | 200 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 6,700 | 69.2 | |||
Liberal Reform hold |
This was Cohen's third and final attempt to win the seat of Annandale, this time standing as an Independent. [36] Sitting Liberal Reform MP William Mahony was returned, for the fifth and final time, with a reduced majority. [35]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | William Mahony | 2,815 | 60.7 | ||
Progressive | James Robertson | 1,826 | 39.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 4,641 | 99.0 | |||
Informal votes | 45 | 1.0 | |||
Turnout | 4,686 | 57.0 | |||
Liberal Reform hold |
This was Robertson's first and only attempt at state office. [38] Sitting Liberal Reform MP William Mahony was returned with an increased majority, achieving over 60 percent of the vote for the first time. [37]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | William Mahony | 1,186 | 52.1 | -0.5 | |
Progressive | Isaiah Cohen | 1,076 | 47.3 | 0.2 | |
Independent | Richard Kimber | 14 | 0.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 2,276 | 99.5 | -0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 14 | 0.5 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 2,290 | 61.2 | -1.3 | ||
Liberal Reform hold |
This was Kimber's first and only attempt at state office, [14] and was Cohen's second of three attempts to win the seat of Annandale. [36] Sitting MP William Mahony, from the newly formed Liberal Reform Party was returned with a slightly reduced majority. The results were subject re-count by the Elections and Qualifications Committee. [39]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | William Mahony | 901 | 52.7 | ||
National Federal | Isaiah Cohen | 810 | 47.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,711 | 99.7 | |||
Informal votes | 5 | 0.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,716 | 62.5 | |||
Free Trade hold |
This was Cohen's first of three attempts to win the seat of Annandale. [36] Sitting Free Trade MP William Mahony was returned with a reduced majority. [40]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | William Mahony | 783 | 58.3 | +23.0 | |
Protectionist | John Maxwell | 411 | 30.6 | +16.7 | |
Labour | John Skelton | 146 | 10.9 | -17.4 | |
Ind. Free Trade | William Williams | 4 | 0.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,344 | 98.9 | -0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 15 | 1.1 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,359 | 61.8 | -21.9 | ||
Free Trade hold |
This was Skelton's second attempt at colonial office, [42] and Maxwell's and Williams' first. [43] [44] All three unsuccessful candidates never stood for election again. Sitting Free Trade MP William Mahony was returned with an increased and absolute majority. [41]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | William Mahony | 657 | 35.3 | ||
Labour | Alexander Duncan | 527 | 28.3 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | Thomas Larkin | 271 | 14.6 | ||
Protectionist | John Young | 259 | 13.9 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | William Pritchard | 149 | 8.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,863 | 99.1 | |||
Informal votes | 17 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,880 | 83.7 | |||
Free Trade win | (new seat) |
No sitting MPs contested in this election however this was Young's fifth, [46] and Pritchard's fourth election respectively. [7] Neither had held office previously. Duncan and Larkin were running for the first time. [47] [48] All four unsuccessful candidates never stood for election again. This is also Mahony's first attempt for colonial office. [49] He did not achieve an absolute majority but was declared the winner as this election was first-past-the-post. [45]
Alma was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, named after Alma, a locality in southern Broken Hill, now known as South Broken Hill.
Annandale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894, with the abolition of multi-member constituencies, from part of Balmain, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Annandale. With the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Balmain. It was recreated in 1927, but was abolished in 1950, and partly replaced by Newtown-Annandale.
Alexandria was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904, partly replacing Waterloo, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Alexandria. With the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Botany. It was recreated in 1927, but was abolished in 1930.
Arthur Hill Griffith was a politician, teacher and patent attorney in New South Wales, Australia. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a member of the Labor Party.
Albert Bruntnell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1906 until his death and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a conservative and at various times he represented the Liberal and Reform and the Nationalist parties.
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 30th parliament held their seats from 1932 to 1935. They were elected at the 1932 state election, and at by-elections. The Speaker was Sir Daniel Levy.</ref>
William John Patrick McCarthy was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Armidale from 1978 to 1981, and Northern Tablelands from 1981 to 1987.
The 1950 New South Wales state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution. The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly, which was an increase of 4 seats since the previous election.
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.
Allowrie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1904 and abolished in 1920. The only member for Allowrie was Mark Morton.
This is a list of electoral district results for the 1950 New South Wales state election.
This is a list of electoral district results for the 1944 New South Wales state election.
The 1930 New South Wales state election was for 90 electoral districts each returning a single member with compulsory preferential voting. The principal change from the 1927 election was the division of the state into 3 zones, Sydney with forty-three districts, Newcastle with five, and the country with forty-two. While the average number of enrolled voters per electorate was 16,009, in the country zone the average was 13,028,, in Newcastle 18,933, and Sydney 18,580.
The 1917 New South Wales state election involved 90 electoral district returning one member each. If a candidate failed to achieve at least 50% of the vote in an electorate, a run-off election would take place in the following weeks. In this election, 8 electorates proceeded to second round elections.
The 1904 New South Wales state election involved 90 electoral districts returning one member each. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. There were two significant changes from the 1901 election, the first was that women were given the right to vote, which saw an increase in the number of enrolled voters from 345,500 in 1901, to 689,490 in 1904. The second was that as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum, the number of members of the Legislative Assembly was reduced from 125 to 90. The combined effect of the changes meant that the average number of enrolled voters per electorate went from 2,764, to 7,661, an increase of 277%. Leichhardt was the only district that was not substantially changed, while The Macquarie and The Murray districts retained nothing but the name.
The 1901 New South Wales state election was for 125 electoral districts, with each district returning one member. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. In this election, in 32 electorates the winning candidate received less than 50% of the votes, while 13 were uncontested. The average number of enrolled voters per electorate was 2,764, ranging from Wentworth (1,706) to Willoughby (4,854).
The 1931 Annandale state by-election was held on 18 April 1931 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Annandale because the seat of Robert Stuart-Robertson (Labor) was declared vacant on 9 April 1931 as he had been declared bankrupt.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Annandale on 24 June 1933 following the death of sitting member, Robert Stuart-Robertson.
Namoi, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1880 to 1894 and from 1904 to 1950.
Rozelle, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1904 until 1920 and from 1927 until 1930.