Electoral results for the district of Yass

Yass, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1894 to 1920 and from 1930 to 1950. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Election	Member		Party
1894		William Affleck	Free Trade
1895
1898
1901			Liberal Reform
1904		Niels Nielsen	Labor
1907
1910
1913
1913 by		Greg McGirr	Labor
1917
Election	Member		Party
1930		George Ardill	Nationalist
1932			United Australia
1935
1938
1941		Bill Sheahan	Labor
1944
1947

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1947

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1947 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Sheahan	8,393	60.4	−39.6
	Country	John MacKay	3,957	28.5	+28.5
	Liberal	Noel Barber	1,384	10.0	+10.0
	Independent	John Cusack	163	1.2	+1.2
Total formal votes			13,897	99.0
Informal votes			137	1.0
Turnout			14,043	95.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1944

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1944 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Sheahan	unopposed
	Labor hold

1941

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1941 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Sheahan	7,941	55.5
	Country	Bill Ross	6,363	44.5
Total formal votes			14,304	99.4
Informal votes			84	0.6
Turnout			14,388	94.3
	Labor gain from Country		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1938 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	George Ardill	7,074	57.4	−0.4
	Independent	Vivian Partridge	5,240	42.6	+42.6
Total formal votes			12,314	98.5	−0.1
Informal votes			186	1.5	+0.1
Turnout			12,500	96.1	−1.0
	United Australia hold		Swing	N/A

1935

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1935 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	George Ardill	7,206	57.8	−4.1
	Labor (NSW)	John Cleary	5,263	42.2	+4.1
Total formal votes			12,469	98.6	+0.2
Informal votes			180	1.4	−0.2
Turnout			12,649	97.1	−0.2
	United Australia hold		Swing	−4.1

1932

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1932 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Australia	George Ardill	7,364	61.9	+33.5
	Labor (NSW)	Reginald O'Brien	4,524	38.1	−8.2
Total formal votes			11,888	98.4	+0.2
Informal votes			197	1.6	−0.2
Turnout			12,085	97.3	+1.1
	United Australia hold		Swing	+11.3

1930

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1930 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	William Webster	5,368	46.3
	Nationalist	George Ardill	3,296	28.4
	Country	Thomas Collins	2,942	25.3
Total formal votes			11,606	98.2
Informal votes			208	1.8
Turnout			11,814	96.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Nationalist	George Ardill	5,876	50.6
	Labor	William Webster	5,730	49.4
	Nationalist win		(new seat)

District recreated

1920 - 1930

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

1917

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1917 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Greg McGirr	4,524	57.8	+7.1
	Nationalist	Patrick Bourke	3,308	42.2	+9.3
Total formal votes			7,832	98.7	+1.6
Informal votes			100	1.3	−1.6
Turnout			7,932	70.0	−5.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+7.1

1913

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1913 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Greg McGirr	4,498	50.7
	Farmers and Settlers	Patrick Bourke  [a]	2,921	32.9
	Country Party Association	Robert Donaldson (defeated)	1,448	16.3
Total formal votes			8,867	97.1
Informal votes			260	2.9
Turnout			9,127	75.1
	Labor hold

Robert Donaldson was the sitting member for Wynyard which had been largely replaced by Yass.

1913 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1913 Yass state by-election § Result.[ edit ]

1913 Yass by-election
Wednesday 5 March  ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Greg McGirr	2,972	50.3	−3.2
	Liberal Reform	Patrick Bourke	2,931	49.7	+3.2
Total formal votes			5,903	100.0	+1.4
Informal votes			0	0.0	−1.4
Turnout			5,903	73.8  [b]	+0.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.2

Niels Nielsen (Labor) resigned. ^[13]

Elections in the 1900s

1910

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1910 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Niels Nielsen	3,113	53.5
	Liberal Reform	Bernard Grogan	2,705	46.5
Total formal votes			5,818	98.6
Informal votes			81	1.4
Turnout			5,899	73.7
	Labour hold

1907

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1907 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Niels Nielsen	2,705	52.4
	Liberal Reform	Bernard Grogan	2,453	47.6
Total formal votes			5,158	98.0
Informal votes			104	2.0
Turnout			5,262	71.0
	Labour hold

1904

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1904 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Niels Nielsen	2,260	52.2
	Liberal Reform	William Affleck	2,052	47.4
	Progressive	Bernard Grogan	17	0.4
Total formal votes			4,329	98.3
Informal votes			77	1.8
Turnout			4,406	67.0
	Labour gain from Liberal Reform

Yass lost part of the electorate to Queanbeyan and was expanded to include parts of the abolished seats of Boorowa and West Macquarie. The member for Yass was William Affleck (Liberal Reform) while the member for Boorowa was Niels Nielsen (Labour). The member for West Macquarie was Paddy Crick (Progressive) who successfully contested Blayney.

1901

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Yass.[ edit ]

1901 New South Wales state election: Yass   ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	William Affleck	875	52.3	+5.8
	Progressive	Bernard Grogan	799	47.7	+4.3
Total formal votes			1,674	100.0	+1.2
Informal votes			0	0.0	−1.2
Turnout			1,674	75.5	+12.1
	Liberal Reform hold

Elections in the 1890s

1898

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election § Yass.[ edit ]

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Yass   ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William Affleck	599	46.5
	National Federal	Bernard Grogan	560	43.4
	Independent Federalist	George Harrison	130	10.1
Total formal votes			1,289	98.8
Informal votes			16	1.2
Turnout			1,305	63.4
	Free Trade hold

1895

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election § Yass.[ edit ]

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Yass   ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William Affleck	631	54.8
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls	520	45.2
Total formal votes			1,151	99.1
Informal votes			11	1.0
Turnout			1,162	65.1
	Free Trade hold

1894

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election § Yass.[ edit ]

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Yass   ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William Affleck	516	39.8
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls	440	33.9
	Ind. Protectionist	Argyle McCallum	342	26.4
Total formal votes			1,298	99.2
Informal votes			10	0.8
Turnout			1,308	72.4
	Free Trade gain from Protectionist

Yass Plains was renamed Yass. Thomas Colls (Protectionist) was the sitting member for Yass Plains.

Notes

1. Also endorsed by Liberal Reform.
2. Estimate based on a roll of 8,001 at the 1910 election. ^[14]

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