Electoral results for the district of West Macquarie

West Macquarie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1904.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Member	Party	Period
1859	John McPhillamy	None
1859 by	Henry Mort	None
1860	Richard Driver	None
1864	Richard Driver	None
1869	Edmund Webb	None
1872	Edmund Webb	None
1875	Charles Pilcher	None
1877
1880
1882	Thomas Hellyer	None
1884 by	Lewis Lloyd	None
1885	Lewis Lloyd	None
1887	Fergus Smith	Free Trade
1889	Paddy Crick	Protectionist
1890 by
1891
1895
1898		National Federal
1901		Progressive

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: West Macquarie ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Paddy Crick	1,152	59.2	+3.6
	Liberal Reform	Otto Jaeger	795	40.8	−2.3
Total formal votes			1,947	99.0	+0.8
Informal votes			19	1.0	−0.8
Turnout			1,966	52.6	−4.7
	Progressive hold

Elections in the 1890s

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	National Federal	Paddy Crick	888	55.6
	Free Trade	John Hurley	689	43.1
	Independent Federalist	Edward Goldsby	20	1.3
Total formal votes			1,597	98.3
Informal votes			28	1.7
Turnout			1,625	57.3
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick	876	55.0
	Free Trade	John Hurley	716	45.0
Total formal votes			1,592	98.9
Informal votes			18	1.1
Turnout			1,610	61.4
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick	820	45.7
	Free Trade	R W Peacock	472	26.3
	Labour	John Bridgeman	259	14.5
	Ind. Free Trade	Charles Jeanneret	208	11.6
	Independent	J O'Donoghue	34	1.9
Total formal votes			1,793	95.9
Informal votes			76	4.1
Turnout			1,869	71.6
	Protectionist win		(new seat)

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Saturday 20 June ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick (re-elected)	510	54.3
	Free Trade	Charles Boyd	429	45.7
Total formal votes			939	97.8
Informal votes			21	2.2
Turnout			960	74.9
	Protectionist hold

1890 by-election

1890 West Macquarie by-election
Saturday 6 December ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick (re-elected)	496	56.0	+0.9
	Free Trade	Charles Boyd ^[a]	390	44.0	−0.9
Total formal votes			886	100.0	+1.8
Informal votes			0	0.0	−1.8
Turnout			886	74.4	+1.2
	Protectionist hold

Paddy Crick (Free Trade) was expelled.^[9]

Elections in the 1880s

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Saturday 16 February ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick (elected)	470	55.1
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise	383	44.9
Total formal votes			853	98.2
Informal votes			16	1.8
Turnout			869	73.2
	Protectionist gain from Free Trade

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Thursday 17 February ^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Free Trade	Fergus Smith (elected)	340	48.3
	Protectionist	Paddy Crick	255	36.2
	Protectionist	John Hughes	109	15.5
Total formal votes			704	98.9
Informal votes			8	1.1
Turnout			712	64.2

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Thursday 22 October ^[16]
Candidate	Votes	%
Lewis Lloyd (re-elected)	355	56.3
James Fitzpatrick	276	43.7
Total formal votes	631	98.0
Informal votes	13	2.0
Turnout	644	59.5

1884 by-election

1884 West Macquarie by-election
Wednesday 2 July ^[17]
Candidate	Votes	%
Lewis Lloyd (elected)	375	67.2
William Richardson	183	32.8
Total formal votes	558	98.6
Informal votes	8	1.4
Turnout	566	53.9

Thomas Hellyer resigned.^[17]

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Wednesday 13 December ^[18]
Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Hellyer (elected)		unopposed

The sitting member Charles Pilcher unsuccessfully contested West Sydney.

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Saturday 27 November ^[19]
Candidate	Votes	%
Charles Pilcher (re-elected)	461	53.3
Alfred Pechey	404	46.7
Total formal votes	865	97.5
Informal votes	22	2.5
Turnout	882	79.3

Elections in the 1870s

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Wednesday 31 October ^[20]
Candidate	Votes	%
Charles Pilcher (re-elected)	314	59.3
Alexander Rae	216	40.8
Total formal votes	530	98.0
Informal votes	11	2.0
Turnout	541	47.3

1875

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Monday 4 January 1875 ^[21]
Candidate	Votes	%
Charles Pilcher (elected)	425	58.7
Henry Rotton	299	41.3
Total formal votes	724	97.8
Informal votes	16	2.2
Turnout	740	57.7

The sitting member for West Macquarie was Edmund Webb who unsuccessfully contested Bathurst.

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Saturday 24 February ^[22]
Candidate	Votes	%
Edmund Webb (re-elected)	320	78.6
George Thornton	87	21.4
Total formal votes	407	98.3
Informal votes	7	1.7
Turnout	414	40.2

Elections in the 1860s

1869

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Wednesday 15 December 1869 ^[23]
Candidate	Votes	%
Edmund Webb (elected)	397	57.6
Richard Driver (defeated)	292	42.4
Total formal votes	689	98.0
Informal votes	14	2.0
Turnout	703	74.9

1864

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Saturday 24 December 1864 ^[24]
Candidate		Votes	%
Richard Driver (re-elected)		unopposed

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Monday 10 December ^[25]
Candidate	Votes	%
Richard Driver (elected)	188	67.1
John Clements (defeated)	92	32.9
Total formal votes	280	100.0
Informal votes	0	0.0
Turnout	280	38.4

Elections in the 1850s

1859 by-election

**1859 West Macquarie by-election**
Wednesday 21 December ^[26]^[27]
Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Mort (elected)		show of hands
Richard Driver

John McPhillamy resigned.^[26]

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: West Macquarie
Tuesday 14 June ^[28]
Candidate	Votes	%
John McPhillamy (elected)	264	83.0
Thomas Hawkins	54	17.0
Total formal votes	318	100.0
Informal votes	0	0.0
Turnout	318	60.9

Notes

^ Boyd's party affiliation is taken from reports in the Sydney Morning Herald,^[10] the Daily Telegraph,^[11]^[12] and the National Advocate,^[13] which record Boyd as campaigning as a Free Trader, while Antony Green lists him as an independent stating that his party affiliation was unclear from the reports Green had examined.^[9]

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^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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^ Green, Antony. "1895 Macquarie West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1894 Macquarie West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1891 Macquarie West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Green, Antony. "1890 West Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
^ "The West Macquarie Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 November 1890. p. 5. Retrieved 5 May 2021 – via Trove.
^ "The West Macquarie Election". The Daily Telegraph. 17 November 1890. p. 5. Retrieved 5 May 2021 – via Trove.
^ "Mr Boyd's candidature". The Daily Telegraph. 28 November 1890. p. 5. Retrieved 5 May 2021 – via Trove.
^ "The West Macquarie Election". The National Advocate. 29 November 1890. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2021 – via Trove.
^ Green, Antony. "1889 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1887 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1885 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b Green, Antony. "1884 West Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
^ Green, Antony. "1882 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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^ Green, Antony. "1877 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1874-5 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1872 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1869-70 West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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^ ^a ^b Green, Antony. "1859 West Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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[14] Boyd's party affiliation is taken from reports in the Sydney Morning Herald,^[10] the Daily Telegraph,^[11]^[12] and the National Advocate,^[13] which record Boyd as campaigning as a Free Trader, while Antony Green lists him as an independent stating that his party affiliation was unclear from the reports Green had examined.^[9]

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v t e Electoral results for the former electoral districts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
North coast	Byron Casino Grafton Manning Hastings Hastings and Macleay Hastings and Manning Macleay Macquarie Murwillumbah Raleigh Richmond Rous
Hunter & Central Coast	Durham East Maitland Hamilton Hunter Kahibah Kurri Kurri Lower Hunter Morpeth Newcastle East Newcastle West North Eastern Boroughs Northumberland Northumberland and Hunter Northumberland Boroughs Patrick's Plains Paterson Peats Robertson Singleton Tuggerah West Maitland Wickham Wollombi Waratah Williams
Sydney North	Baulkham Hills Belmore Carlingford Central Cumberland Collaroy Cumberland Cumberland Boroughs Cumberland (North Riding) Earlwood Eastwood Ermington Fuller Gladesville Gordon Kirribilli Ku-ring-gai Middle Harbour Minchinbury Moorebank Mosman Mulgoa Nepean Neutral Bay Northcott North Sydney Seven Hills St Leonards St Marys Sherbrooke Sydney Hamlets The Hills Toongabbie Warringah Western Suburbs Windsor
Sydney City	Bligh Darling Harbour Darlinghurst East Sydney Elizabeth King McKell Phillip Port Jackson Pyrmont Sydney City Sydney-Belmore Sydney-Bligh Sydney-Cook Sydney-Denison Sydney-Fitzroy Sydney-Flinders Sydney-Gipps Sydney-King Sydney-Lang Sydney-Phillip Sydney-Pyrmont University of Sydney West Sydney
Sydney east	Alexandria Paddington Paddington-Waverley Randwick Surry Hills Waterloo Waverley Woollahra
Sydney south	Annandale Arncliffe Ashfield Ashfield-Croydon Balmain North Balmain South Bass Hill Burragorang Clyde Concord Cook's River Croydon Cumberland (South Riding) Darlington Dulwich Hill Enmore East Camden Eastern Suburbs Georges River Glebe Hurstville Ingleburn Lakemba Leichhardt Marrickville Menai Merrylands Narellan Newtown-Annandale Newtown-Camperdown Newtown-Erskine Newtown-St Peters Petersham Redfern Rozelle St George Smithfield South Sydney Sutherland Wentworthville West Camden Woronora Yaralla
Wollongong & south coast	Allowrie Bulli Bondi Botany Burwood Camperdown Corrimal Eden Eden-Bombala Illawarra Kembla Maneroo Moruya Munmorah St Vincent Shoalhaven United Counties of Murray and St Vincent Wollongong-Kembla
North west	Alma Armidale Bathurst (County) The Bogan Bourke Broken Hill Burrendong Carcoar Castlereagh Cobar Cook and Westmoreland Coonamble East Macquarie Glen Innes Gloucester Gloucester and Macquarie Goldfields North Gough Gunnedah Gwydir Hartley Inverell Liverpool Plains Liverpool Plains and Gwydir Moree Mudgee Namoi Narrabri New England New England and Macleay Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh Quirindi Roxburgh Rylstone Sturt Tenterfield Uralla-Walcha Western Boroughs Wilcannia Willyama
South west	Argyle Ashburnham Balranald Belubula Bingara Blayney Boorowa Bowral Braidwood Burrangong Burrinjuck Condoublin Corowa Cowra The Darling Deniliquin Forbes Goldfields South Goldfields West Grenfell Gundagai Hay Hume King and Georgiana Lachlan Lachlan and Lower Darling Lyndhurst Molong Murray-Darling Murrumbidgee Queanbeyan Southern Boroughs Southern Highlands Temora Tumut Wentworth Wynyard Yass Yass Plains Young
Queensland	Brisbane Burnett Clarence and Darling Downs Darling Downs East Moreton Ipswich Lachlan and Lower Darling Leichhardt, Queensland Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis Stanley Boroughs Stanley County West Moreton