Electoral results for the district of Sydney-Flinders
Appearance
Sydney-Flinders, 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 | Bernhard Wise | Free Trade | |
1895 | Arthur Nelson | Protectionist | |
1898 | |||
1901 | Progressive |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1900s
[edit]1901
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Progressive | Arthur Nelson | 601 | 34.9 | −13.2 | |
Liberal Reform | John Waine | 598 | 34.8 | −3.2 | |
Ind. Progressive | Ernest Gardner | 191 | 11.1 | +2.1 | |
Independent Liberal | Hezekiah Evers | 124 | 7.2 | ||
Ind. Progressive | James Lawrence | 124 | 7.2 | ||
Labour | Frederick Sommerhoff | 82 | 4.8 | -0.0 | |
Total formal votes | 1,720 | 99.2 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 14 | 0.8 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,734 | 75.8 | +23.4 | ||
Progressive hold |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]1898
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Federal | Arthur Nelson | 543 | 48.2 | ||
Free Trade | John Dobbie | 428 | 38.0 | ||
Independent Federalist | Ernest Gardner | 102 | 9.1 | ||
Labour | Robert Cropley | 54 | 4.8 | ||
Independent | William Gocher | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,127 | 99.0 | |||
Informal votes | 12 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,139 | 52.4 | |||
National Federal hold |
1895
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Protectionist | Arthur Nelson | 333 | 32.1 | ||
Independent | Bernhard Wise (defeated) | 296 | 28.6 | ||
Free Trade | John Waine | 278 | 26.8 | ||
Labour | John Buckley | 118 | 11.4 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Eden George | 11 | 1.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,036 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 14 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,050 | 58.4 | |||
Protectionist gain from Free Trade |
1894
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Trade | Bernhard Wise | 656 | 45.8 | ||
Labour | John Dobbie | 379 | 26.5 | ||
Protectionist | William Kippax | 286 | 20.0 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Joseph Olliffe | 77 | 5.4 | ||
Ind. Protectionist | Leighton Kesteven | 34 | 2.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,432 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 19 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,451 | 79.0 | |||
Free Trade win | (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1898 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1895 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 April 2020.