Electoral results for the district of Leichhardt (New South Wales)

Leichhardt, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1894 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1962.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1894   John Hawthorne Ind. Free Trade
1895   Free Trade
1898
1901   Liberal Reform
1904   Robert Booth Liberal Reform
1907   Campbell Carmichael Labor
1910
1913
1917 Labor / Soldiers & Citizens
 
Election Member Party
1927   Barney Olde Labor
1930
1932   Labor (NSW)
1932 by   Joe Lamaro Labor (NSW)
1934 by   Claude Matthews Labor (NSW)
1935
1938   Labor / Labor (N-C)
1941 Labor
1944
1947
1950
1953
1954 by   Reg Coady Labor
1956
1959

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1959

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1959 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1959 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Coady 12,726 61.6
Liberal Barney Morton 7,948 38.4
Total formal votes 20,674 98.3
Informal votes 358 1.7
Turnout 21,032 92.4
Labor hold Swing

1956

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1956 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Coady 14,145 68.9 −5.6
Liberal Barney Morton 6,386 31.1 +5.6
Total formal votes 20,531 97.8 +0.5
Informal votes 462 2.2 −0.5
Turnout 20,993 91.7 −0.9
Labor hold Swing −5.6

1954 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1954 Leichhardt state by-election § Result.[edit]
1954 Leichhardt by-election
Saturday 20 March [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Reg Coady 12,646 68.14
Independent John Blackmore 3,060 16.5
Independent William Dougherty 2,533 13.7
Independent William McCristal 320 1.7
Total formal votes 18,559 96.5
Informal votes 665 3.5
Turnout 19,224 79.4
Labor hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1953

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1953 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 16,915 74.5
Liberal William Cole 5,794 25.5
Total formal votes 22,709 97.3
Informal votes 633 2.7
Turnout 23,342 92.6
Labor hold Swing

1950

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1950 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 13,395 68.3
Liberal Charles Shields 5,190 26.5
Independent Arthur Doughty 1,016 5.2
Total formal votes 19,601 97.8
Informal votes 440 2.2
Turnout 20,041 93.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Claude Matthews 70.0 [a]
Liberal Charles Shields 30.0
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1947

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1947 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews unopposed
Labor hold  

1944

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1944 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 13,584 72.6 −10.5
Independent Labor Francis Edgcumbe 2,731 14.6 +14.6
Independent Labor Charles Shields 2,400 12.8 +12.8
Total formal votes 18,715 94.1 +0.5
Informal votes 1,165 5.9 −0.5
Turnout 19,880 92.4 −0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1941

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1941 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 14,964 83.1
State Labor Anthony Bellanto 3,034 16.9
Total formal votes 17,998 93.6
Informal votes 1,230 6.4
Turnout 19,228 92.5
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1938 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 9,822 60.5 +3.4
Industrial Labor James Dunn 3,870 23.8 +23.8
Independent Arthur Doughty 2,542 15.7 +15.7
Total formal votes 16,234 96.0 −1.7
Informal votes 668 4.0 +1.7
Turnout 16,902 96.5 −1.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1935

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1935 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Claude Matthews 9,539 57.1 +2.6
Federal Labor William Dyer 7,175 42.9 +35.3
Total formal votes 16,714 97.7 −0.6
Informal votes 393 2.3 +0.6
Turnout 17,107 97.6 +0.3
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A

1934 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1934 Leichhardt state by-election § Result.[edit]
1934 Leichhardt by-election
Saturday 20 October [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Claude Matthews 9,546 60.0
Federal Labor William Dyer 5,616 35.3
Communist Robert Brechin 460 2.9
Independent Edward Cotter 173 1.1
Independent Francis McFadden 109 0.7
Total formal votes 15,904 97.1 −1.2
Informal votes 479 2.9 +1.2
Turnout 16,383 90.9 −7.0
Labor (NSW) hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1932 Leichhardt state by-election § Result.[edit]
1932 Leichhardt by-election
Saturday 10 December [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Joe Lamaro 9,401 62.0
Federal Labor Robert Storey 5,164 34.1
Communist Thomas Payne 313 2.1
Douglas Credit William Benjamin 227 1.5
Independent Arthur Doughty 51 0.3
Total formal votes 15,156 96.0
Informal votes 640 4.1
Turnout 15,796 93.0
Labor (NSW) hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1932 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Barney Olde 8,976 54.5 −20.4
United Australia Andrew Campbell 6,184 37.5 +15.5
Federal Labor Robert Storey 1,248 7.6 +7.6
Independent Charles Shields 75 0.5 −0.9
Total formal votes 16,483 98.3 +1.6
Informal votes 284 1.7 −1.6
Turnout 16,767 97.9 +1.6
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1930 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Barney Olde 12,188 74.9
Nationalist Thomas Morrow 3,580 22.0
Independent Charles Shields 228 1.4
Independent Arthur Doughty 190 1.2
Communist Jane Mountjoy 90 0.6
Total formal votes 16,276 96.7
Informal votes 551 3.3
Turnout 16,827 96.3
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Barney Olde 7,136 53.6
Nationalist Albert Lane (defeated) 5,912 44.4
Independent George Boland 276 2.1
Total formal votes 13,324 99.0
Informal votes 138 1.0
Turnout 13,462 85.7
Labor win (new seat)

District recreated

1920 - 1927

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

1917

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Campbell Carmichael unopposed
Labor hold  

1913

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [20][21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Campbell Carmichael 4,918 57.0
Liberal Reform Henry Brierley 3,584 41.5
Australasian Socialist John Kilburn 127 1.5
Total formal votes 8,629 98.3
Informal votes 153 1.7
Turnout 8,782 71.7
Labor hold  

1910

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1910 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Carmichael 5,462 55.9
Liberal Reform Frederick Reed 4,305 44.1
Total formal votes 9,967 99.1
Informal votes 91 0.9
Turnout 9,858 78.5
Labour hold  

Elections in the 1900s

1907

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1907 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Carmichael 3,554 44.2
Liberal Reform Robert Booth 3,069 38.1
Independent Liberal John Hawthorne 1,425 17.7
Total formal votes 8,048 97.9
Informal votes 176 2.1
Turnout 8,224 79.6
Labour gain from Liberal Reform  

1904

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1904 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform Robert Booth 2,370 39.0
Independent Liberal John Hawthorne 1,980 32.6
Labour George Beeby 1,722 28.4
Total formal votes 6,072 99.5
Informal votes 28 0.5
Turnout 6,100 70.5
Liberal Reform hold  
Leichhardt was not significantly changed.[25] John Hawthorne had been the Liberal Reform member for Leichhardt for 10 years, however stood as an Independent Liberal Reform Candidate, having been denied pre-selection in favour of Robert Booth, who had the support of the United Protestant Defence Association due to Hawthorne voting to grant money to various charities which included a Catholic orphanage.[26][27]

1901

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1901 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Reform John Hawthorne 1,475 67.4 +18.6
Labour William Niland 715 32.7 +8.4
Total formal votes 2,190 99.5 −0.3
Informal votes 12 0.5 +0.3
Turnout 2,202 58.4 −5.6
Liberal Reform hold  

Elections in the 1890s

1898

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1898 New South Wales colonial election: Leichhardt [29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade John Hawthorne 960 48.8
National Federal Richard Colonna-Close 530 26.9
Labour George Clark 478 24.3
Total formal votes 1,968 99.8
Informal votes 4 0.2
Turnout 1,972 64.1
Free Trade hold  

1895

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1895 New South Wales colonial election: Leichhardt [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade John Hawthorne 990 57.7
Labour John Dobbie 727 42.3
Total formal votes 1,717 99.5
Informal votes 9 0.5
Turnout 1,726 65.8
Free Trade hold  

1894

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election § Leichhardt.[edit]
1894 New South Wales colonial election: Leichhardt [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Free Trade John Hawthorne 826 37.1
Labour William Holman 731 32.8
Free Trade George Clark 372 16.7
Ind. Free Trade Robert Cropley 159 7.1
Protectionist Edward Purnell 95 4.3
Ind. Free Trade Edward Darnley 34 1.5
Ind. Protectionist Aaron Wheeler 11 0.5
Total formal votes 2,228 99.1
Informal votes 21 0.9
Turnout 2,249 83.5
Ind. Free Trade win (new seat)

Notes

  1. ^ Two party preferred vote was estimated.

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