Electoral results for the district of Newcastle (South Australia)

This is a list of election results for the electoral district of Newcastle in South Australian elections.

Members for Newcastle

First incarnation (1884–1902)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Burgoyne		1884–1902		Patrick Coglin		1884–1887
					Thomas Playford		1887–1890
					Joseph Hancock		1890–1893
					Richard Foster		1893–1902

Second incarnation (1915–1938)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Andrew Kirkpatrick	Labor	1915–1918		Thomas Butterfield	Labor	1915–1917
					Edward Twopeny	Liberal Union	1917–1918
	William Harvey	Labor	1918–1931		Thomas Butterfield	Labor	1918–1931
		Parliamentary Labor	1931–1933			Parliamentary Labor	1931–1933
	James Beerworth	Labor	1933–1938		Lindsay Riches	Labor	1933–1938

Single-member (1938–1956)
Member		Party	Term
	George Jenkins	Liberal and Country	1938–1956

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1953 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	2,275	63.7	−7.6
	Labor	Gerald Travers	1,298	36.3	+7.6
Total formal votes			3,573	97.4	−1.5
Informal votes			96	2.6	+1.5
Turnout			3,669	92.0	+5.9
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	−7.6

1950 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	2,601	71.3	−28.7
	Labor	Leonard Pilton	1,048	28.7	+28.7
Total formal votes			3,649	98.9
Informal votes			40	1.1
Turnout			3,689	86.1
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1947 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	unopposed
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

1944 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	2,229	60.0	−40.0
	Labor	Jock Pick	1,486	40.0	+40.0
Total formal votes			3,715	97.8
Informal votes			84	2.2
Turnout			3,799	83.3
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

1941 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	unopposed
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938 South Australian state election: Newcastle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	George Jenkins	2,060	67.5
	Labor	James Marner	993	32.5
Total formal votes			3,053	97.8
Informal votes			68	2.2
Turnout			3,121	64.7
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing