Macquarie, until 1910 The Macquarie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1894, re-created in 1904, retaining nothing but the name, then abolished in 1920.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1894 | James Tonkin | Free Trade | |
1895 | William Hurley | Protectionist | |
1898 | |||
1901 | Progressive | ||
Election | Member | Party | |
1904 | Thomas Thrower | Labour | |
1907 | Charles Barton | Liberal Reform | |
1910 | Thomas Thrower | Labor | |
1913 | |||
1917 | |||
1917 by | Patrick McGirr | Labor |
Election results
editElections in the 1910s
edit1917 by-election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Patrick McGirr | 3,521 | 50.8 | -0.1 | |
Nationalist | Murdock McLeod | 3,232 | 46.6 | -2.6 | |
Australian Producers Co-Operative Party | Frank Foster | 182 | 2.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,935 | 99.5 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 34 | 0.5 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 6,969 | 65.1 [a] | −7.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A |
1917
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Thomas Thrower | 3,899 | 50.9 | +0.5 | |
Nationalist | Murdock McLeod | 3,769 | 49.1 | -0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 7,668 | 99.0 | +1.6 | ||
Informal votes | 80 | 1.0 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 7,748 | 72.4 | −7.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +0.5 |
1913
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Thomas Thrower | 4,055 | 50.4 | ||
Farmers and Settlers | Reginald Weaver [b] | 3,992 | 49.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,047 | 97.4 | |||
Informal votes | 216 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 8,263 | 79.7 | |||
Labor hold |
1910
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Thrower | 3,698 | 52.8 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Reform | James Burns | 3,311 | 47.2 | -3.3 | |
Total formal votes | 7,009 | 98.3 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 121 | 1.7 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 7,130 | 70.3 | −2.9 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Reform |
Elections in the 1900s
edit1907
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | Charles Barton | 3,344 | 50.5 | ||
Labour | Thomas Thrower | 3,279 | 49.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,623 | 98.0 | |||
Informal votes | 136 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 6,759 | 73.2 | |||
Liberal Reform gain from Labour |
1904
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Thrower | 2,566 | 50.2 | ||
Liberal Reform | Simeon Phillips | 2,476 | 48.5 | ||
Independent | John Collins | 38 | 0.7 | ||
Independent Liberal | Reginald Atkinson | 27 | 0.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 5,107 | 95.7 | |||
Informal votes | 230 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 5,337 | 63.2 | |||
Labour win | (new seat) |
District recreated
1901
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive | William Hurley | 849 | 58.8 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Reform | John Miller | 594 | 41.2 | +4.8 | |
Total formal votes | 1,443 | 98.5 | +0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 22 | 1.5 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 1,465 | 59.1 | +2.8 | ||
Progressive hold |
Elections in the 1890s
edit1898
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Federal | William Hurley | 724 | 55.1 | ||
Free Trade | Robert Thompson | 478 | 36.4 | ||
Independent | Francis Foster | 96 | 7.3 | ||
Independent | David Todd | 8 | 0.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | William Paul | 6 | 0.5 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Allen Carmichael | 2 | 0.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,314 | 97.9 | |||
Informal votes | 28 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,342 | 56.3 | |||
National Federal hold |
1895
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Protectionist | William Hurley | 575 | 42.8 | ||
Free Trade | James Tonkin | 438 | 32.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | William Paul | 233 | 17.4 | ||
Labour | Francis Foster | 97 | 7.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,343 | 99.2 | |||
Informal votes | 11 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,354 | 60.7 | |||
Protectionist gain from Free Trade |
1894
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | James Tonkin | 637 | 38.6 | ||
Protectionist | William Hurley | 542 | 32.9 | ||
Labour | John Skelton | 237 | 14.4 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | John Hughes | 174 | 10.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Henry Brown | 60 | 3.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,650 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 28 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,678 | 74.3 | |||
Free Trade win | (new seat) |
Notes
edit- ^ based on an electoral roll of 10,704 at the 1917 state election.[5]
- ^ Also endorsed by Liberal Reform.
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 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1913 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1910 The Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1907 The Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1904 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
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