Electoral results for the district of Namoi

Namoi, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1880 to 1894 and from 1904 to 1950.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1880   Thomas Dangar None
1882
1885   Charles Collins None
1887   Thomas Dangar Free Trade
1889
1890 by   Charles Collins Free Trade Member Party
1891   Job Sheldon Labour
 
Election Member Party
1904   Albert Ernest Collins Independent Liberal
1907
1910   George Black Labor
1913 Labor / Independent Labor
1917   Walter Wearne Ind. Nationalist Member Party Member Party
1920   Progressive   Frank Chaffey Nationalist   Patrick Scully Labor
1922   Nationalist
1923 apt   William Scully Labor
1925
1927   William Scully Labor
1930
1932   Colin Sinclair Country
1935
1938
1941   Raymond Hamilton Labor
1944
1947

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1947

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1947 New South Wales state election: Namoi [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Raymond Hamilton 6,634 51.2 −8.4
Country Malcolm Heath 6,313 48.8 +8.4
Total formal votes 12,947 99.1 +0.7
Informal votes 111 0.9 −0.7
Turnout 13,058 95.0 +7.4
Labor hold Swing −8.4

1944

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1944 New South Wales state election: Namoi [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Raymond Hamilton 7,036 59.6 +26.6
Country Lancelot Thomas 4,762 40.4 +7.7
Total formal votes 11,798 98.4 +0.1
Informal votes 194 1.6 −0.1
Turnout 11,992 87.6 −5.5
Labor hold Swing +6.9

1941

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1941 New South Wales state election: Namoi [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Raymond Hamilton 4,387 33.0
Country Ernest Batchelor 4,351 32.7
Independent Labor Ernest Hogan 2,978 22.4
Country George Gilby 1,591 12.0
Total formal votes 13,307 98.3
Informal votes 231 1.7
Turnout 13,538 93.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Raymond Hamilton 7,016 52.7
Country Ernest Batchelor 6,291 47.3
Labor gain from Country Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1938 New South Wales state election: Namoi [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Colin Sinclair 7,516 51.3 −1.3
Labor Ernest Hogan 7,120 48.7 +1.3
Total formal votes 14,636 99.0 +0.4
Informal votes 150 1.0 −0.4
Turnout 14,786 96.6 +1.2
Country hold Swing −1.3

1935

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1935 New South Wales state election: Namoi [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Colin Sinclair 7,404 52.6 −3.7
Labor (NSW) William Scully 6,678 47.4 +3.7
Total formal votes 14,082 98.6 −0.4
Informal votes 194 1.4 +0.4
Turnout 14,276 95.4 −0.9
Country hold Swing N/A

1932

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1932 New South Wales state election: Namoi [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Colin Sinclair 7,264 56.3 +13.6
Labor (NSW) William Scully 5,484 42.5 −14.8
Independent Ernest Bachelor 151 1.2 +1.2
Total formal votes 12,899 99.0 +0.2
Informal votes 130 1.0 −0.2
Turnout 13,029 96.3 +0.9
Country gain from Labor (NSW) Swing N/A

1930

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1930 New South Wales state election: Namoi [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Scully 7,286 57.3
Country William Waterford 5,430 42.7
Total formal votes 12,716 98.8
Informal votes 153 1.2
Turnout 12,869 95.4
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Namoi [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Scully 6,035 50.1
Nationalist Leslie Seccombe 5,442 45.1
Independent Henry Jones 579 4.8
Total formal votes 12,056 98.2
Informal votes 216 1.8
Turnout 12,272 79.5
Labor win (new seat)

1925

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1925 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1925 New South Wales state election: Namoi [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 6,621
Labor William Scully (elected 1) 9,487 35.8 +5.4
Labor Michael Hagan 897 3.4 +3.4
Labor James Hawkins 803 3.0 +3.0
Nationalist Walter Wearne (elected 2) 5,639 21.3 +0.6
Nationalist Frank Chaffey (elected 3) 4,696 17.7 −4.8
Progressive Aubrey Abbott 3,395 12.8 +12.8
Progressive Lachlan McLachlan 392 1.5 +1.5
Progressive James Laird 227 0.9 +0.9
Independent Robert Levien 947 3.6 −5.8
Total formal votes 26,483 96.3 +0.3
Informal votes 1,023 3.7 −0.3
Turnout 27,506 70.3 +0.1
Party total votes
Labor 11,187 42.2 +4.4
Nationalist 10,335 39.0 −4.1
Progressive 4,014 15.2 +5.5
Independent Robert Levien 947 3.6 −5.8

1923 appointment

Patrick Scully resigned on 20 September 1923.[13] Between 1920 and 1927 the Legislative Assembly was elected using a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark). The Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act,[14] provided that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate "who represents the same party interest as the late member". William Scully had the highest number of votes of the unsuccessful Labor candidates at the 1922 election and took his seat on 20 September 1923.[15][16]

1922

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1922 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1922 New South Wales state election: Namoi [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 6,483
Nationalist Frank Chaffey (elected 2) 5,823 22.5 +9.4
Nationalist Walter Wearne (elected 3) 5,363 20.7 +5.8
Labor Patrick Scully (elected 1) 7,880 30.4 −6.5
Labor William Scully 1,602 6.2 +4.4
Labor Septimus Humphries 325 1.3 +1.3
Progressive Roland Green 1,906 7.3 +7.3
Progressive Albert Studdy 599 2.3 +2.3
Independent Robert Levien 2,433 9.4 −1.2
Total formal votes 25,931 96.0 +2.5
Informal votes 1,087 4.0 −2.5
Turnout 27,018 70.2 +8.5
Party total votes
Nationalist 11,186 43.1 +18.0
Labor 9,807 37.8 −3.6
Progressive 2,505 9.7 −13.2
Independent Robert Levien 2,433 9.4 −1.2

1920

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1920 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1920 New South Wales state election: Namoi [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 5,432
Labor Patrick Scully (elected 1) 8,007 36.9
Labor Thomas Boland 592 2.7
Labor William Scully 396 1.8
Nationalist Frank Chaffey (elected 2) 2,848 13.1
Nationalist John Crane (defeated) 2,605 12.0
Progressive Walter Wearne (elected 3) 3,244 14.9
Progressive Frank Heywood 969 4.5
Progressive Charles Woollett 754 3.5
Independent Robert Levien 2,309 10.6
Total formal votes 21,724 93.5
Informal votes 1,517 6.5
Turnout 23,241 61.7
Party total votes
Labor 8,995 41.4
Nationalist 5,453 25.1
Progressive 4,967 22.9
Independent Robert Levien 2,309 10.6

Elections in the 1910s

1917

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Namoi [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Nationalist Walter Wearne 2,389 42.3 +42.3
Labor Thomas Egan 2,373 42.0 −11.3
Independent Labor George Black 883 15.6 +15.6
Total formal votes 5,645 98.0 +0.9
Informal votes 117 2.0 −0.9
Turnout 5,762 61.0 −2.7
1917 New South Wales state election: Namoi - Second Round [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Nationalist Walter Wearne 3,112 55.3
Labor Thomas Egan 2,516 44.7
Total formal votes 5,628 99.6 +1.6
Informal votes 25 0.4 −1.6
Turnout 5,653 59.9 −1.1
Ind. Nationalist gain from Labor  
The sitting member George Black was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription.[20]

1913

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Namoi.[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Namoi [21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Black 3,151 53.3
Liberal Reform James Florance 2,760 46.7
Total formal votes 5,911 97.1
Informal votes 177 2.9
Turnout 6,088 63.7
Labor hold  

1910

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § The Namoi.[edit]
1910 New South Wales state election: The Namoi [22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Black 3,267 60.3 +14.2
Independent Liberal Hubert O'Reilly 2,153 39.7
Total formal votes 5,420 97.1 +0.2
Informal votes 160 2.9 −0.2
Turnout 5,580 54.8 −11.1
Labour gain from Independent Liberal  

Elections in the 1900s

1907

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § The Namoi.[edit]
1907 New South Wales state election: The Namoi [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Albert Collins [a] 2,531 53.9
Labour William Walton 2,165 46.1
Total formal votes 4,696 96.9
Informal votes 149 3.1
Turnout 4,845 65.9
Independent Liberal hold  

1904

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § The Namoi.[edit]
1904 New South Wales state election: The Namoi [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Albert Collins 2,070 55.9
Labour Thomas Shakespeare 1,632 44.1
Total formal votes 3,702 99.3
Informal votes 28 0.8
Turnout 3,730 57.7
Independent Liberal win (new seat)
The Namoi was a re-created seat comprising the abolished seat of Narrabri as well as parts of the abolished seats of Gunnedah and The Barwon. The member for Narrabri was Albert Collins (Liberal Reform), who was not a member of Liberal Reform but was recommended by the party.[26] The member for Gunnedah was David Hall (Labour) who unsuccessfully contested Liverpool Plains.

District re-created

1894 - 1904

District abolished

Elections in the 1890s

1891

This section is an excerpt from 1891 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1891 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Friday 26 June [27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Job Sheldon (elected 1) 995 39.5
Free Trade Charles Collins (re-elected 2) 825 32.8
Free Trade John Mackay 697 27.7
Total formal votes 2,517 99.6
Informal votes 11 0.4
Turnout 1,660 51.6
  Labour win 1 (1 new seat)
  Free Trade hold 1

1890 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1890 Namoi colonial by-election § Result.[edit]
1890 Namoi by-election
Thursday 31 July [28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Charles Collins (elected) 821 73.8
Free Trade David Jones 292 26.2
Total formal votes 1,113 99.0
Informal votes 11 1.0
Turnout 1,124 36.7
Free Trade hold  
Tom Dangar (Free Trade) died.[28]

Elections in the 1880s

1889

This section is an excerpt from 1889 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1889 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Wednesday 13 February [29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Thomas Dangar (elected) 733 61.2
Protectionist William Buchanan 464 38.8
Total formal votes 1,197 97.0
Informal votes 37 3.0
Turnout 1,234 41.6
Free Trade hold  

1887

This section is an excerpt from 1887 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1887 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Tuesday 22 February [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Thomas Dangar (elected) 762 65.0
Free Trade George Dale 411 35.0
Total formal votes 1,173 98.3
Informal votes 20 1.7
Turnout 1,193 47.4

1885

This section is an excerpt from 1885 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1885 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Monday 26 October [31]
Candidate Votes %
Charles Collins (elected) 743 72.1
William Wright 288 27.9
Total formal votes 1,031 99.2
Informal votes 8 0.8
Turnout 1,039 48.0

The sitting member Thomas Dangar unsuccessfully contested The Gwydir.

1882

This section is an excerpt from 1882 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1882 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Thursday 7 December [32]
Candidate Votes %
Thomas Dangar (re-elected) 532 71.9
R H Hyman 208 28.1
Total formal votes 740 96.2
Informal votes 29 3.8
Turnout 769 38.7

1880

This section is an excerpt from 1880 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi
1880 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Wednesday 24 November [33]
Candidate Votes %
Thomas Dangar (re-elected) unopposed
  (new seat)

Thomas Dangar was the sitting member for The Gwydir.

Notes

  1. ^ Albert Collins was supported by the Liberal Reform Party as having assisted in the work of the government and generally favourable to its policies.[24]

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