Electoral results for the district of Surry Hills
Appearance
Surry Hills, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1904 until 1920 and from 1927 until 1930.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1904 | John Norton | Independent | |
1907 by | Albert Bruntnell | Liberal Reform | |
1907 | Sir James Graham | Liberal Reform | |
1910 | Henry Hoyle | Labour | |
1913 | |||
1917 | Nationalist | ||
Election | Member | Party | |
1927 | Arthur Buckley | Labor |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1920s
[edit]1927
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Tom Shannon | 7,536 | 66.1 | ||
Nationalist | William Adkins | 3,694 | 32.4 | ||
Independent | John Salmon | 175 | 1.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 11,405 | 98.6 | |||
Informal votes | 164 | 1.4 | |||
Turnout | 11,569 | 76.7 | |||
Labor win | (new seat) |
District recreated
1920 - 1927
[edit]District abolished
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]1917
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Arthur Buckley | 3,585 | 65.5 | −0.1 | |
Nationalist | Percy Daly | 1,550 | 28.3 | +28.3 | |
Independent | Thomas Kohan | 272 | 5.0 | +5.0 | |
Independent | John Eaton | 39 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
Ind. Socialist Labor | Ludwig Klausen | 26 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 5,472 | 98.8 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 66 | 1.2 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 5,538 | 47.1 | −12.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | −0.1 |
1913
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Henry Hoyle | 4,717 | 65.6 | ||
Independent | William Walker | 2,393 | 33.3 | ||
Socialist Labor | Ludwig Klausen | 82 | 1.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 7,192 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 123 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 7,315 | 60.0 | |||
Labor hold |
1910
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Henry Hoyle | 3,711 | 60.4 | +25.1 | |
Liberal Reform | Sir James Graham (defeated) | 2,399 | 39.0 | +1.7 | |
Independent | John Eaton | 38 | 0.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,148 | 97.0 | +0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 191 | 3.0 | −0.7 | ||
Turnout | 6,339 | 67.6 | −0.8 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Reform |
1907
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | Sir James Graham | 2,227 | 37.3 | ||
Labour | John Birt | 2,104 | 35.3 | ||
Independent | Paddy Crick | 1,442 | 24.2 | ||
Independent | George Perry | 194 | 3.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 5,967 | 96.3 | |||
Informal votes | 230 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 6,197 | 68.4 | |||
Liberal Reform gain from Independent |
1906 by-election
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | Albert Bruntnell (elected) | 1,109 | 30.5 | −3.8 | |
Independent | Dick Meagher | 961 | 26.4 | ||
Labour | Henry Lawton | 888 | 24.4 | ||
Independent | John Norton (defeated) | 679 | 18.7 | −27.1 | |
Independent | James Jones | 3 | 0.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 3,640 | 98.9 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 40 | 1.1 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 3,680 | 36.2 [a] | −20.8 | ||
Liberal Reform gain from Independent | Swing |
1904
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Norton | 2,646 | 45.8 | ||
Liberal Reform | John Charles Waine | 1,982 | 34.3 | ||
Progressive | Arthur Nelson | 513 | 8.9 | ||
Independent Liberal | Richard Watkins Richards | 403 | 7.0 | ||
Independent | James Henry Lawrence | 238 | 4.1 | ||
Independent | James Bernard Black | 2 | 0.0 | ||
Total formal votes | 5,784 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 74 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 5,858 | 57.0 | |||
Independent win | (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Estimate based on an electoral roll of 10,172 at the 1904 election.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1927 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1917 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "PLL expulsions". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 November 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 7 May 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1913 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "The Socialist Labor Party candidates". The People. 13 December 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1907 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1906 Surry Hills by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1904 Surry Hills". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.