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Electoral results for the district of Surry Hills

Surry Hills, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1904 until 1920 and from 1927 until 1930.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1904   John Norton Independent
1907 by   Albert Bruntnell Liberal Reform
1907   Sir James Graham Liberal Reform
1910   Henry Hoyle Labour
1913
1917   Nationalist
 
Election Member Party
1927   Arthur Buckley Labor

Election results

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Elections in the 1920s

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1927

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon 7,536 66.1
Nationalist William Adkins 3,694 32.4
Independent John Salmon 175 1.5
Total formal votes 11,405 98.6
Informal votes 164 1.4
Turnout 11,569 76.7
Labor win (new seat)

District recreated

1920 - 1927

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District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

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1917

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Arthur Buckley 3,585 65.5 −0.1
Nationalist Percy Daly 1,550 28.3 +28.3
Independent Thomas Kohan 272 5.0 +5.0
Independent John Eaton 39 0.7 +0.7
Ind. Socialist Labor Ludwig Klausen 26 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 5,472 98.8 +0.5
Informal votes 66 1.2 −0.5
Turnout 5,538 47.1 −12.9
Labor hold Swing −0.1
The sitting member Henry Hoyle (Nationalist) was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription,[6] and did not contest the election.

1913

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Henry Hoyle 4,717 65.6
Independent William Walker 2,393 33.3
Socialist Labor Ludwig Klausen 82 1.1
Total formal votes 7,192 98.3
Informal votes 123 1.7
Turnout 7,315 60.0
Labor hold  

1910

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1910 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Henry Hoyle 3,711 60.4 +25.1
Liberal Reform Sir James Graham (defeated) 2,399 39.0 +1.7
Independent John Eaton 38 0.6
Total formal votes 6,148 97.0 +0.7
Informal votes 191 3.0 −0.7
Turnout 6,339 67.6 −0.8
Labour gain from Liberal Reform  

1907

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1907 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Sir James Graham 2,227 37.3
Labour John Birt 2,104 35.3
Independent Paddy Crick 1,442 24.2
Independent George Perry 194 3.3
Total formal votes 5,967 96.3
Informal votes 230 3.7
Turnout 6,197 68.4
Liberal Reform gain from Independent  
John Norton (Independent) had won the seat at the 1904 election, however he challenged William Holman to face a by-election and was soundly defeated at the Surry Hills by-election in July 1906, finishing fourth behind Albert Bruntnell (Liberal Reform). At the 1907 general election Bruntnell chose to contest Alexandria but the seat was retained for Liberal Reform by Sir James Graham.

1906 by-election

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This section is an excerpt from 1906 Surry Hills state by-election § Result.[edit]
1906 Surry Hills by-election
Saturday 21 July [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Albert Bruntnell (elected) 1,109 30.5 −3.8
Independent Dick Meagher 961 26.4
Labour Henry Lawton 888 24.4
Independent John Norton (defeated) 679 18.7 −27.1
Independent James Jones 3 0.1
Total formal votes 3,640 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 40 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 3,680 36.2 [a] −20.8
Liberal Reform gain from Independent Swing
John Norton (Independent) challenged William Holman to resign and both would contest Holman's seat of Cootamundra.[11]

1904

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Surry Hills.[edit]
1904 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Norton 2,646 45.8
Liberal Reform John Charles Waine 1,982 34.3
Progressive Arthur Nelson 513 8.9
Independent Liberal Richard Watkins Richards 403 7.0
Independent James Henry Lawrence 238 4.1
Independent James Bernard Black 2 0.0
Total formal votes 5,784 98.7
Informal votes 74 1.3
Turnout 5,858 57.0
Independent win (new seat)
Surry Hills was a new seat consisting of the abolished seat of Sydney-Flinders, which was expanded with part of Randwick and part of the abolished seat of Sydney-Cook.[13] Arthur Nelson (Progressive) was the member for Sydney-Flinders while John Norton (Independent) was the member for Northumberland.

Notes

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  1. ^ Estimate based on an electoral roll of 10,172 at the 1904 election.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  4. ^ Green, Antony. "1927 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ Green, Antony. "1917 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  6. ^ "PLL expulsions". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 November 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 7 May 2020 – via Trove.
  7. ^ Green, Antony. "1913 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  8. ^ "The Socialist Labor Party candidates". The People. 13 December 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via Trove.
  9. ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  10. ^ Green, Antony. "1907 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  11. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1906 Surry Hills by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  12. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1904 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  13. ^ "The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.
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