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Raleigh, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has had two incarnations, the first from 1894 to 1920, the second from 1927 to 1981.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1894   Patrick Hogan Protectionist
1895   John McLaughlin Independent
1898
1901   George Briner Progressive
1904
1907   Independent Liberal
1910
1913   Country Party Association
1917   Nationalist
 
Election Member Party
1927   Roy Vincent Country
1930
1932
1935
1938
1941
1944
1947
1950
1953   Radford Gamack Country
1956
1959   Jim Brown Country
1962
1965
1968
1971
1973
1976
1978

Election results

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Elections in the 1970s

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1978

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1978 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Raleigh.[edit]
1978 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Country Jim Brown 13,584 55.3 −8.0
Labor Joseph Moran 10,975 44.7 +8.0
Total formal votes 24,559 98.8 0.0
Informal votes 306 1.2 0.0
Turnout 24,865 94.4 −0.5
National Country hold Swing −8.0

1976

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1976 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Raleigh.[edit]
1976 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 14,502 63.3 −5.1
Labor Joseph Moran 8,402 36.7 +5.1
Total formal votes 22,905 98.8 +0.3
Informal votes 280 1.2 −0.3
Turnout 23,185 94.9 +0.4
Country hold Swing −5.1

1973

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1973 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Raleigh.[edit]
1973 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 14,347 68.4 +8.0
Labor Ken Reed 6,613 31.6 +0.8
Total formal votes 20,960 98.5
Informal votes 309 1.5
Turnout 21,269 94.5
Country hold Swing +2.9

1971

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1971 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Raleigh.[edit]
1971 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 11,423 60.4 +4.4
Labor Sydney Dodds 5,830 30.8 +2.6
Independent Andrew Boyton 1,648 8.7 +8.7
Total formal votes 18,901 99.0
Informal votes 197 1.0
Turnout 19,098 95.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Jim Brown 12,377 65.5 −2.4
Labor Sydney Dodds 6,524 34.5 +2.4
Country hold Swing −2.4

Elections in the 1960s

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1968

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1968 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 12,466 56.0 −8.2
Labor Robert Melville 6,272 28.2 −7.6
New Staters Aubrey Barker 3,514 15.8 +15.8
Total formal votes 22,252 98.7
Informal votes 286 1.3
Turnout 22,538 96.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country Jim Brown 15,102 67.9 +3.7
Labor Robert Melville 7,150 32.1 −3.7
Country hold Swing +3.7

1965

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1965 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1965 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 10,972 64.2 +0.7
Labor Robert Melville 6,114 35.8 −0.7
Total formal votes 17,086 99.2 −0.1
Informal votes 143 0.8 +0.1
Turnout 17,229 96.7 +0.6
Country hold Swing +0.7

1962

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1962 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1962 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Jim Brown 10,960 63.5 +27.7
Labor Trevor Owens 6,302 36.5 +1.4
Total formal votes 17,262 99.3
Informal votes 116 0.7
Turnout 17,378 96.1
Country hold Swing +3.2

Elections in the 1950s

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1959

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1959 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1959 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Bailey 7,775 40.1
Country Jim Brown 5,967 30.8
Independent Country Radford Gamack (defeated) 5,639 29.1
Total formal votes 19,381 99.0
Informal votes 189 1.0
Turnout 19,570 94.5
Two-party-preferred result
Country Jim Brown 10,776 55.6
Labor William Bailey 8,605 44.4
Country hold Swing
The sitting member Radford Gamack had been elected as a Country member, but contested this election as an independent.

1956

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1956 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1956 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Radford Gamack unopposed
Country hold  

1953

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1953 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1953 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Clyde Reid 7,121 37.6
Country Radford Gamack 6,918 36.5
Independent Gordon Patterson 3,828 20.2
Country William Burns 1,092 5.8
Total formal votes 18,959 98.4
Informal votes 317 1.6
Turnout 19,276 96.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country Radford Gamack 11,150 58.8
Labor Clyde Reid 7,809 41.2
Country hold Swing

1950

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1950 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1950 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent unopposed
Country hold  

Elections in the 1940s

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1947

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1947 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 11,479 67.7 +5.6
Independent Labor Millicent Christian 5,477 32.3 +32.3
Total formal votes 16,956 98.8 +0.8
Informal votes 198 1.2 −0.8
Turnout 17,154 95.0 +0.9
Country hold Swing N/A

1944

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1944 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1944 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,948 62.1 +24.1
Labor Norman Long 5,453 37.9 +2.0
Total formal votes 14,401 98.0 −0.5
Informal votes 290 2.0 +0.5
Turnout 14,691 94.1 +0.5
Country hold Swing +5.5

1941

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1941 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1941 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 5,609 38.0
Labor John Howard 5,305 35.9
Country Les Jordan 3,853 26.1
Total formal votes 14,767 98.5
Informal votes 221 1.5
Turnout 14,988 93.6
Two-party-preferred result
Country Roy Vincent 8,362 56.6
Labor John Howard 6,405 43.4
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

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1938

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1938 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,659 56.2 −1.3
Independent Les Jordan 5,429 35.2 +35.2
Labor John Devine 1,316 8.5 +8.5
Total formal votes 15,404 98.1 −0.2
Informal votes 297 1.9 +0.2
Turnout 15,701 95.1 −0.9
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1935

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1935 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1935 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,719 57.5 −19.6
Independent Arthur Wallace 6,435 42.5 +42.5
Total formal votes 15,154 98.3 0.0
Informal votes 268 1.7 0.0
Turnout 15,422 96.0 −0.3
Country hold Swing N/A

1932

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1932 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1932 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 10,537 77.1 +21.1
Labor (NSW) David Walker 3,133 22.9 −8.0
Total formal votes 13,670 98.3 +0.6
Informal votes 239 1.7 −0.6
Turnout 13,909 96.3 +0.2
Country hold Swing N/A

1930

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1930 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 7,190 56.0
Labor Charles Booth 3,966 30.9
Independent Country Henry Wood 1,522 11.8
Independent Theodore McLennan 161 1.3
Total formal votes 12,839 97.7
Informal votes 302 2.3
Turnout 13,141 96.1
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1927

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1927 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,172 73.3
Labor John Connolly 2,979 26.7
Total formal votes 11,151 98.9
Informal votes 120 1.1
Turnout 11,271 78.3
Country win (new seat)

District re-created

1920 - 1927

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District abolished District abolished

Elections in the 1910s

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1917

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist George Briner 4,072 64.7 +64.7
Labor Francis Collins 2,221 35.3 +21.4
Total formal votes 6,293 99.2 +2.6
Informal votes 235 3.4 −2.6
Turnout 6,344 54.1 −9.8
Nationalist hold  

1913

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Party Association George Briner 3,047 45.9
Liberal Reform Henry Boultwood 2,663 40.1
Labor Theodore McLennan 925 13.9
Total formal votes 6,635 96.6
Informal votes 235 3.4
Turnout 6,870 63.9
1913 New South Wales state election: Raleigh - Second Round
Saturday 20 December [24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Party Association George Briner 3,925 59.1
Liberal Reform Henry Boultwood 2,713 40.9
Total formal votes 6,638 99.1
Informal votes 59 0.9
Turnout 6,697 62.3
Member changed to Country Party Association from Independent Liberal  

1910

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1910 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal George Briner 4,981 78.3 +14.0
Labour Clem Johnson 1,382 21.7 +13.1
Total formal votes 6,363 96.9 +2.3
Informal votes 204 3.1 −2.3
Turnout 6,567 61.4 +5.5
Member changed to Independent Liberal from Progressive (defunct)  

Elections in the 1900s

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1907

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1907 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Former Progressive George Briner 2,772 64.3
Independent Liberal John McLaughlin 1,172 27.2
Labour William McCristal 370 8.6
Total formal votes 4,314 94.7
Informal votes 244 5.4
Turnout 4,558 55.9
Former Progressive hold  

1904

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1904 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive George Briner 2,173 58.1
Liberal Reform John Davis 1,099 29.4
Independent Thomas Lobban 471 12.6
Total formal votes 3,743 99.4
Informal votes 23 0.6
Turnout 3,766 58.6
Progressive hold  
Raleigh lost part of the district to The Clarence and was expanded to include much of The Clarence. The member for Raleigh was George Briner (Progressive). The member for The Clarence was John McFarlane (Progressive) who successfully contested that seat.

1901

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Raleigh.[edit]
1901 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive George Briner 827 51.1 +12.8
Independent Henry Boltwood 470 29.0
Independent Richard Cooke 154 9.5
Ind. Progressive Eugene Rudder 101 6.2
Independent Jeremiah Mannix 67 4.1
Total formal votes 1,619 99.0 −0.3
Informal votes 16 1.0 +0.3
Turnout 1,635 68.6 +5.7
Progressive gain from Independent  
The sitting member John McLaughlin (Independent) did not contest the election.

Elections in the 1890s

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1898

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election § Raleigh.[edit]
1898 New South Wales colonial election: Raleigh [29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John McLaughlin 814 61.8
National Federal Patrick Hogan 504 38.2
Total formal votes 1,318 99.3
Informal votes 9 0.7
Turnout 1,327 62.9
Member changed to Independent from Ind. Protectionist  

1895

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election § Raleigh.[edit]
1895 New South Wales colonial election: Raleigh [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Protectionist John McLaughlin 567 47.8
Free Trade James Gregg 313 26.4
Ind. Protectionist George Briner 287 24.2
Ind. Protectionist Eugene Rudder 20 1.7
Total formal votes 1,187 99.3
Informal votes 9 0.8
Turnout 1,196 67.6
Ind. Protectionist gain from Protectionist  

1894

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This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election § Raleigh.[edit]
1894 New South Wales colonial election: Raleigh [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Protectionist Patrick Hogan 399 27.8
Ind. Protectionist John McLaughlin 379 26.5
Ind. Protectionist John Lynn 253 17.7
Independent Labour James Gregg 230 16.1
Independent Eugene Rudder 83 5.8
Ind. Protectionist William Pullen 66 4.6
Free Trade Joseph McKay 23 1.6
Total formal votes 1,433 98.7
Informal votes 19 1.3
Turnout 1,452 81.3
Protectionist win (new seat)

References

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  6. ^ Green, Antony. "1973 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  7. ^ Green, Antony. "1971 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  8. ^ Green, Antony. "1968 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. ^ Green, Antony. "1965 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  10. ^ Green, Antony. "1962 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  11. ^ Green, Antony. "1959 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  12. ^ Green, Antony. "1956 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  13. ^ Green, Antony. "1953 Raleigh". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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