Balmain South, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1904.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1894 | Sydney Law | Labour | |
1895 | |||
1898 | |||
1901 | |||
1902 by | Independent Labour |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1900s
[edit]1902 by-election
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Labour | Sydney Law (re-elected) | 1,387 | 57.9 | ||
Labour | Hugh Byers | 1,006 | 42.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 2,388 | 99.3 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 16 | 0.7 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 2,404 | 58.9 [a] | −10.1 | ||
Member changed to Independent Labour from Labour |
1901
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sydney Law | 1,413 | 50.7 | +3.7 | |
Independent Liberal | John Gray | 871 | 31.2 | ||
Liberal Reform | Charles Donnelley | 389 | 14.0 | ||
Ind. Progressive | Percy Tighe | 80 | 2.9 | ||
Independent | William Pacey | 30 | 1.1 | ||
Independent | Robert Morris | 5 | 0.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 2,788 | 99.0 | −0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 27 | 1.0 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 2,815 | 69.0 | +4.1 | ||
Labour hold |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]1898
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sydney Law | 979 | 47.0 | ||
National Federal | William Traill | 861 | 41.3 | ||
Independent Federalist | Gilbert Murdoch | 174 | 8.4 | ||
Independent | Charles Taylor | 70 | 3.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 2,084 | 99.5 | |||
Informal votes | 10 | 0.5 | |||
Turnout | 2,094 | 64.9 | |||
Labour hold |
1895
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sydney Law | 901 | 49.8 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | James Johnston | 601 | 33.2 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | George Clubb | 197 | 10.9 | ||
Protectionist | Osborne Chidgey | 111 | 6.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,810 | 98.8 | |||
Informal votes | 22 | 1.2 | |||
Turnout | 1,832 | 71.4 | |||
Labour hold |
1894
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sydney Law | 775 | 34.7 | ||
Protectionist | James Johnston | 727 | 32.5 | ||
Free Trade | George Clubb | 716 | 32.1 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | George Maclean | 16 | 0.7 | ||
Total formal votes | 2,234 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 41 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 2,275 | 83.7 | |||
Labour win | (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ based on a roll of 4,082 at the 1901 election.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Balmain South". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Mr Sydney James Law (1856-1939)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1902 Balmain South by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1901 Balmain South". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Balmain South". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Balmain South". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Balmain South". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.