Electoral results for the district of Roebourne

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Roebourne in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Roebourne

Member		Party	Term
	George Leake	Non-aligned	1890
	Horace Sholl	Ministerial	1891–1901
	John Sydney Hicks	Ministerial	1901–1908
	Henry Osborn	Ministerial	1908–1911
	Joseph Gardiner	Labor	1911–1915
	William Butcher	Liberal	1915–1917
		Nationalist	1917
	Frederick Teesdale	Nationalist	1917–1932
	John Church	Nationalist	1932–1933
	Aloysius Rodoreda	Labor	1933–1950

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Roebourne ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1943 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	221	69.5	+7.4
	Country	George Monger	97	30.5	+30.5
Total formal votes			318	98.8	−0.8
Informal votes			4	1.2	+0.8
Turnout			322	65.5	−19.3
	Labor hold		Swing	+7.4

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	355	62.1	−37.9
	Nationalist	Alexander Angelo	217	37.9	+37.9
Total formal votes			572	99.6
Informal votes			2	0.4
Turnout			574	84.8
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1936 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1933 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	261	52.3	+22.4
	Nationalist	John Church	238	47.7	−22.4
Total formal votes			499	98.6	−1.0
Informal votes			7	1.4	+1.0
Turnout			506	86.4	+12.2
	Labor gain from Nationalist		Swing	+22.4

1932 Roebourne state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	John Church	108	28.9	n/a
	Labor	John Archer	68	18.2	–11.7
	Independent	Harold Cornish	61	16.3	+16.3
	Independent	Ernest Foulkes-Taylor	54	14.4	+14.4
	Nationalist	Richard Sleeman	50	13.4	n/a
	Country	Charles Ferguson	33	8.8	+8.8
Total formal votes			374	96.9	–2.7
Informal votes			12	3.1	+2.7
Turnout			386	83.9	+9.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Nationalist	John Church	211	56.4	–13.7
	Independent	Harold Cornish	163	43.5	+43.6
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

1930 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Frederick Teesdale	317	70.1
	Labor	Arthur Orr	135	29.9
Total formal votes			452	99.6
Informal votes			2	0.4
Turnout			454	74.2
	Nationalist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Frederick Teesdale	252	57.8	−42.2
	Labor	Thomas McCarthy	184	42.2	+42.2
Total formal votes			436	99.8
Informal votes			1	0.2
Turnout			437	66.2
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

1924 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Frederick Teesdale	unopposed
	Nationalist hold		Swing

1921 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Frederick Teesdale	246	74.8	−3.1
	Labor	Thomas Daley	47	14.3	−7.8
	Independent	Richard Hancock	36	10.9	+10.9
Total formal votes			329	98.5	−1.2
Informal votes			5	1.5	+1.2
Turnout			334	57.6	+8.9
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Frederick Teesdale	271	77.9	+77.9
	Labor	John Haughey	77	22.1	–25.1
Total formal votes			348	99.7	+1.4
Informal votes			1	0.3	–1.4
Turnout			349	48.7	n/a
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

1915 Roebourne state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Butcher	254	53.8	+8.2
	Labor	William Waugh	218	46.2	−8.2
Total formal votes			472	98.3	+0.8
Informal votes			8	1.7	−0.8
Turnout			480	N/A
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+8.2

1914 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joseph Gardiner	324	54.4	−11.9
	Liberal	Frederick Teesdale	272	45.6	+28.6
Total formal votes			596	97.5	+1.7
Informal votes			15	2.5	−1.7
Turnout			611	54.1	−0.4
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1911 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joseph Gardiner	379	66.3
	Ministerialist	Albert Wilson	97	17.0
	Ministerialist	Henry Osborn	96	16.8
Total formal votes			572	95.8
Informal votes			25	4.2
Turnout			597	54.5
	Labor gain from Ministerialist		Swing

• Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ministerialist	Henry Osborn	185	52.7	−47.3
	Ministerialist	Albert Wilson	145	41.3	+41.3
	Ministerialist	William Withnell	21	6.0	+6.0
Total formal votes			351	93.6
Informal votes			24	6.4
Turnout			375	48.1
	Ministerialist hold		Swing	N/A

1905 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ministerialist	John Sydney Hicks	unopposed
	Ministerialist hold		Swing

1904 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ministerialist	John Sydney Hicks	unopposed
	Ministerialist hold		Swing

1901 Western Australian state election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Sydney Hicks	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

1897 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ministerialist	Horace Sholl	unopposed
	Ministerialist hold		Swing

1894 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	None	Horace Sholl	unopposed

1891 Roebourne colonial by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	None	Horace Sholl	unopposed

1890 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	None	George Leake	unopposed

References

1. Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN   0730984095.