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Electoral results for the district of Pingelly

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This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Pingelly in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Pingelly

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Member Party Term
  Nat Harper Liberal 1911–1914
  Henry Hickmott Country 1914–1923
  Country (ECP) 1923–1924
  Henry Brown Country 1924–1933
  Harrie Seward Country 1933–1950

Election results

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Elections in the 1940s

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1947 Western Australian state election: Pingelly[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 2,108 70.2 +2.4
Independent Percy Munday 896 29.8 −2.4
Total formal votes 3,004 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 34 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 3,038 77.6 −2.6
Country hold Swing +2.4
1943 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,970 67.8 −32.2
Independent Percy Munday 935 32.2 +32.2
Total formal votes 2,905 98.7
Informal votes 39 1.3
Turnout 2,944 80.2
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

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1939 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward unopposed
Country hold Swing
1936 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,743 65.7 +20.9
Country Cecil Elsegood 909 34.3 +34.3
Total formal votes 2,652 99.4 +1.0
Informal votes 15 0.6 −1.0
Turnout 2,667 70.7 −14.7
Country hold Swing N/A
1933 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,510 44.8 +6.3
Independent Cecil Elsegood 1,115 33.1 +33.1
Labor Keith Growden 745 22.1 −0.7
Total formal votes 3,370 98.4 +0.7
Informal votes 54 1.6 −0.7
Turnout 3,424 85.4 +11.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harrie Seward 1,738 51.6 +3.3
Independent Cecil Elsegood 1,632 48.4 +48.4
Country hold Swing N/A
1930 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Brown 1,142 38.7
Country Harrie Seward 1,136 38.5
Labor William Carmody 671 22.8
Total formal votes 2,949 97.7
Informal votes 69 2.3
Turnout 3,018 73.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Henry Brown 1,526 51.7
Country Harrie Seward 1,423 48.3
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1927 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Brown 1,084 61.4 +44.9
Country Joseph Watson 402 22.8 +6.5
Nationalist Joseph Keays 279 15.8 −13.2
Total formal votes 1,765 98.3 +0.6
Informal votes 31 1.7 −0.6
Turnout 1,796 64.4 +7.6
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1924 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 425 29.0 −40.0
Executive Country Henry Brown 242 16.5 +16.5
Executive Country Joseph Watson 239 16.3 +16.3
Executive Country Francis Wake 194 13.2 +13.2
Executive Country Edwin Corby 157 10.7 +10.7
Executive Country William Vinicombe 134 9.1 +9.1
Executive Country Johnson Kennard 76 5.2 +5.2
Total formal votes 1,467 97.7 −0.5
Informal votes 34 2.3 +0.5
Turnout 1,501 56.8 +4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Executive Country Henry Brown 846 57.7
Country Henry Hickmott 621 42.3
Executive Country gain from Country Swing N/A
1921 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 816 69.0 −35.7
Country Harrie Seward 207 17.5 +17.5
Country Harry Gayfer 159 13.4 +13.4
Total formal votes 1,182 98.2 +1.8
Informal votes 22 1.8 −1.8
Turnout 1,204 52.7 −9.1
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

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1917 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Richard Johnson 488 34.3 +34.3
National Country Henry Hickmott 484 33.3 –24.2
National Country Francis Wake 253 17.8 +17.8
National Country William Martin 157 11.0 +11.0
National Country Thomas James 52 3.7 +3.7
Total formal votes 1,424 96.4 –1.5
Informal votes 53 3.6 +1.5
Turnout 1,477 61.8 +4.6
Two-party-preferred result
National Country Henry Hickmott 825 57.9 +0.4
Nationalist Richard Johnson 599 42.1 +42.1
National Country hold Swing +0.4
1914 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 889 57.5 +57.5
Liberal Nat Harper 657 42.5 −22.7
Total formal votes 1,546 97.9 −1.2
Informal votes 33 2.1 +1.2
Turnout 1,579 57.2 −15.8
Country gain from Liberal Swing N/A
1911 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist Nat Harper 1,034 65.2
Labor Matthew Bodey 552 34.8
Total formal votes 1,586 99.1
Informal votes 15 0.9
Turnout 1,601 73.0
Ministerialist hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.