Electoral results for the district of Wammerawa

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Wammerawa, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1920 and abolished in 1927. [1] [2] [3]

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ElectionMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
1920   Joseph Clark Labor   Bill Dunn Labor   William Ashford Nationalist
1922   Harold Thorby Progressive   Independent
1922 re-count   Joseph Clark Labor
1925

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1925

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1925 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[ edit ]
1925 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa   [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Quota 6,717
Labor Bill Dunn (elected 1)8,68032.3+6.2
Labor Joseph Clark (elected 2)5,07818.9+0.6
Labor John Ritchie1,3525.0+5.0
Progressive Harold Thorby (elected 3)4,66417.4+6.5
Progressive Alfred Yeo 7882.9+2.9
Progressive Samuel Armstrong7212.7+2.7
Nationalist Harold Blackett3,36712.5+12.5
Nationalist John Macdonald1,5665.8+0.8
Nationalist Henry Buttsworth6502.4+2.4
Total formal votes26,86697.0+0.7
Informal votes8233.0−0.7
Turnout 27,68972.9+1.6
Party total votes
Labor 15,11056.2+8.7
Progressive 6,17323.0−6.2
Nationalist 5,58320.8+8.6

1922 re-count

The returning officer declared that William Ashford (Independent) had been elected 3rd at the 1922 election. [5] Joseph Clark lodged a petition that alleged the returning officer had made an error in the way he distributed surplus votes after the election of Harold Thorby. [6] The Elections and Qualifications Committee agreed and after re-counting the votes declared that Clark had been elected. [7] [8]

1922

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1922 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[ edit ]
1922 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa   [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Quota 6,571
Labor Bill Dunn (elected 1)6,85426.1−13.6
Labor Joseph Clark (defeated)4,81018.3+8.8
Labor William Webster 8213.1−1.1
Progressive Harold Thorby (elected 2)2,85510.9+0.4
Progressive Gordon Wilkins 2,5229.6+9.6
Progressive George Oram9303.5+3.5
Progressive James Berryman7262.8+2.8
Progressive Edward Scully3661.4+1.4
Progressive Edward Kater2661.0+1.0
Nationalist Percy Shortland1,3865.3+5.3
Nationalist John Macdonald1,3145.0+5.0
Nationalist John Wark5162.0+2.0
Independent William Ashford (elected 3)2,89111.0+11.0
Independent Arthur Heany230.1+0.1
Total formal votes26,28096.3+4.2
Informal votes1,0013.7−4.2
Turnout 27,28171.3+8.0
Party total votes
Labor 12,48547.5−5.9
Progressive 7,66529.2+8.3
Nationalist 3,21612.2−12.0
Independent William Ashford 2,89111.0+11.0
Independent Arthur Heany230.1+0.1

1920

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1920 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[ edit ]
1920 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa   [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Quota 5,610
Labor Bill Dunn (elected 1)8,91239.7
Labor Joseph Clark (elected 3)2,1389.5
Labor William Webster 9314.2
Nationalist William Ashford (elected 2)5,16623.0
Nationalist Sidney Skuthorpe2691.2
Progressive Harold Thorby 2,35510.5
Progressive Neil McLennan1,2065.4
Progressive William Harris1,1375.1
Independent Sydney Webb1780.8
Independent William Kelk1090.5
Independent Edwin Utley370.2
Total formal votes22,43892.1
Informal votes1,9207.9
Turnout 24,35863.3
Party total votes
Labor 11,98153.4
Nationalist 5,43524.2
Progressive 4,69820.9
Independent Sydney Webb1780.8
Independent William Kelk1090.5
Independent Edwin Utley370.2

References

  1. ↑ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Green, Antony. "1925 Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Petition of Joseph Alfred Clark". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales . No. 97. 22 June 1922. p. 3409. Retrieved 29 October 2020– via Trove.
  7. ↑ "Wammerawa: Mr Ashford ousted, Mr Clark elected, committee's decision". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 July 1922. p. 6. Retrieved 29 October 2020– via Trove.
  8. ↑ Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa re-count". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  9. ↑ Green, Antony. "1920 Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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