Electoral results for the district of Kahibah

Kahibah, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has had three incarnations, the first from 1894 to 1920, the second from 1927 to 1930 and the third from 1950 to 1971.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Term	Member		Party
1894		Alfred Edden	Labour
1895
1898
1901
1904
1907
1910
1913
1917			Nationalist

Term	Member		Party
1927		Hugh Connell	Labor

Term	Member		Party
1950		Joshua Arthur	Labor
1953 by		Tom Armstrong	Independent Labor
1956		Tom Armstrong	Independent Labor
1957 by		Jack Stewart	Labor
1959
1962
1965
1968

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

1968

1968 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	12,949	58.5	−5.1
	Liberal	Roy Hammond	7,166	32.4	−4.1
	Democratic Labor	William Crane	1,055	4.8	+4.8
	Communist	Darrell Dawson	691	3.1	+3.1
	Independent	William Fricker	259	1.2	+1.2
Total formal votes			22,120	97.6
Informal votes			540	2.4
Turnout			22,660	95.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Stewart	13,843	62.6	−1.0
	Liberal	Roy Hammond	8,277	37.4	+1.0
	Labor hold		Swing	−1.0

1965

1965 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	11,740	55.6	−6.1
	Liberal	Wallace MacDonald	9,384	44.4	+44.4
Total formal votes			21,124	98.5	0.0
Informal votes			311	1.5	0.0
Turnout			21,435	95.5	+0.1
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1962

1962 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	12,011	61.7	−2.1
	Independent	Wallace MacDonald	7,473	38.3	+38.3
Total formal votes			19,484	98.5
Informal votes			298	1.5
Turnout			19,782	95.4
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.1

Elections in the 1950s

1959

1959 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	11,908	63.7
	Liberal	Eric Cupit	6,790	36.3
Total formal votes			18,698	98.4
Informal votes			311	1.6
Turnout			19,009	95.5
	Labor gain from Independent Labor		Swing

Tom Armstrong (Independent Labor) died and Jack Stewart (Labor) won the resulting by-election.

1957 by-election

1957 Kahibah by-election
Saturday 13 April ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	9,232	51.9
	Liberal	Joseph Richley	4,407	24.8
	Democratic Labor	John Daley	2,687	15.1
	Independent	Ethelene James	1,451	8.2
Total formal votes			17,777	98.3
Informal votes			303	1.7
Turnout			18,080	91.2
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Tom Armstrong (Independent Labor) died.^[8]

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	7,238	39.0	−25.7
	Independent Labor	Tom Armstrong	6,195	33.4	+33.4
	Liberal	Joseph Richley	5,129	27.6	−7.7
Total formal votes			18,562	98.9	+3.1
Informal votes			213	1.1	−3.1
Turnout			18,775	95.9	−0.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent Labor	Tom Armstrong	10,618	57.2	+57.2
	Labor	Robert McCartney	7,944	42.8	−21.9
	Independent Labor gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

Joshua Arthur (Labor) resigned as a result of the Royal Commission concerning his relationship with Reginald Doyle. Tom Armstrong (Independent Labor) won the resulting by-election.^[10]

1953 by-election

1953 Kahibah by-election
Saturday 31 October ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Tom Armstrong	5,706	34.67	+34.67
	Liberal	Harry Quinlan	5,144	31.26	−4.07
	Labor	Joshua Arthur, Sr.	4,059	24.67	−40.00
	Independent	Inglis Alexander	1,101	6.69	+6.69
	Communist	Douglas Olive	446	2.71	+2.71
Total formal votes			16,456
Informal votes			428	2.53
Turnout			16,884	88.82
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Tom Armstrong	10,647	64.70	+64.70
	Liberal	Harry Quinlan	5,809	35.30	−0.03
	Independent gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

Joshua Arthur (Labor) was forced to resign after a Royal Commission found his dealings with Reginald Doyle were improper.^[11] The by-election was a disastrous defeat for Labor in one of their safest seats.

1953

1953 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	11,093	64.7
	Liberal	Inglis Alexander	6,061	35.3
Total formal votes			17,154	95.8
Informal votes			759	4.2
Turnout			17,913	96.0
	Labor hold		Swing

1950

1950 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	12,633	69.3
	Liberal	William Bourke	5,608	30.7
Total formal votes			18,241	99.0
Informal votes			181	1.0
Turnout			18,422	95.3
	Labor notional hold

District recreated

1930 - 1950

District abolished

Elections in the 1920s

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Hugh Connell	9,228	72.6
	Nationalist	Arthur Ashton	3,480	27.4
Total formal votes			12,708	99.2
Informal votes			108	0.8
Turnout			12,816	83.2
	Labor win		(new seat)

District recreated

1920 - 1927

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

1917

1917 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Alfred Edden	3,728	48.5	+15.1
	Labor	Hugh Connell	3,724	48.5	−16.9
	Independent	William Ellis	234	3.0	+3.0
Total formal votes			7,686	99.1	+1.7
Informal votes			67	0.9	−1.7
Turnout			7,753	63.2	−1.1

1917 New South Wales state election: Kahibah - Second Round ^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Alfred Edden	4,396	51.0
	Labor	Hugh Connell	4,216	49.0
Total formal votes			8,612	99.6	+0.5
Informal votes			36	0.4	−0.5
Turnout			8,648	70.5	+7.3
	Member changed to Nationalist from Labor

The sitting member Alfred Edden was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription.^[16]

1913

1913 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	Alfred Edden	4,407	65.4
	Liberal Reform	William Ellis	2,253	33.4
	Country Party Association	Edgar de Lough	77	1.1
Total formal votes			6,737	97.4
Informal votes			183	2.6
Turnout			6,920	64.3
	Labor hold

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	4,159	84.6
	Liberal Reform	Walter Clutton	760	15.4
Total formal votes			4,919	98.1
Informal votes			98	1.9
Turnout			5,017	65.6
	Labour hold

Elections in the 1900s

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	Unopposed
	Labour hold

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	1,966	87.4
	Independent Liberal	John Bailey	283	12.6
Total formal votes			2,249	99.1
Informal votes			21	0.9
Turnout			2,270	31.6
	Labour hold

Kahibah was expanded to include part of Waratah and the abolished seat of Newcastle West. The member for Kahibah was Alfred Edden (Labour). The member for Newcastle West was Owen Gilbert (Liberal Reform) who unsuccessfully contested Wickham while the member for Waratah was Matthew Charlton (Labour) who successfully contested Northumberland.

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	1,218	89.5	+24.5
	Independent Liberal	John Bailey	143	10.5
Total formal votes			1,361	100.0	+0.3
Informal votes			0	0.0	−0.3
Turnout			1,369	54.1	−5.1
	Labour hold

Elections in the 1890s

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Kahibah ^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	843	65.0
	Independent Federalist	William Richardson	38	2.9
	National Federal	Oswald Steel	356	27.5
	Independent	William Williams	60	4.6
Total formal votes			1,297	99.2
Informal votes			11	0.8
Turnout			1,308	59.1
	Labour hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Kahibah ^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Edden	unopposed
	Member changed to Labour from Independent Labour

Alfred Edden left Labor in 1891 over the question of the solidarity pledge and was elected as an Independent Labour member in 1894 and rejoined Labour before this election.

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Kahibah ^[24]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Labour	Alfred Edden	1,041	54.7
	Independent	John Penman	364	19.1
	Labour	George Errington	355	18.7
	Ind. Free Trade	William Case	70	3.7
	Independent	William Williams	41	2.2
	Ind. Free Trade	Joseph Gorrick	31	1.6
Total formal votes			1,902	98.1
Informal votes			37	1.9
Turnout			1,939	91.0
	Independent Labour win		(new seat)

References

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^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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