Electoral results for the district of Newtown

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Newtown, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has had four incarnations, the first from 1859 to 1894, the second from 1904 until 1920, the third from 1927 until 1950 and the fourth from 2015 until the present.[1][2][3][4]

Members[edit]

First incarnation 1859-1894[edit]

First incarnation (1859–1894)
Election Member Party
1859   Alexander McArthur None
1860
1861 by Thomas Holt
1864 Stephen Brown
1869
1872
1874
1877 Member Party
1880   William Foster None
1881 by Joseph Mitchell
1882 Henry Copeland Frederick Gibbes
1883 by Joseph Mitchell Member Party
1885 James Smith   William Foster None
1887   Nicholas Hawken Free Trade   Free Trade   Free Trade
1st 1888 by Joseph Abbott
2nd 1888 by Joseph Mitchell
1889 Edmund Molesworth Member Party
1891   Francis Cotton Labor   John Hindle Labor
 
Second incarnation (1904–1920)
Election Member Party
1904   Robert Hollis Labor
1907
1910
1913
1917 Frank Burke
 
Third incarnation (1927–1950)
Election Member Party
1927   Frank Burke Labor
1930
1932   Labor (NSW)
1935
1938   Labor
1941
1944   Lilian Fowler Lang Labor
1947
 
Fourth incarnation (2015–present)
Election Member Party
2015   Jenny Leong Greens
2019

Election results[edit]

Elections in the 2020s[edit]

2023[edit]

2023 New South Wales state election: Newtown[5][6][7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Jenny Leong 26,758 54.1 +9.9
Labor David Hetherington 15,104 30.5 +1.9
Liberal Fiona Douskou 6,365 12.9 −1.7
Sustainable Australia Christopher Thomas 1,275 2.6 +0.8
Total formal votes 49,502 98.5 +0.6
Informal votes 769 1.5 −0.6
Turnout 50,271 84.4 −0.8
Notional two-party-preferred count
Labor David Hetherington 35,145 82.3 +4.1
Liberal Fiona Douskou 7,553 17.7 −4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Jenny Leong 28,015 62.1 +0.7
Labor David Hetherington 17,094 37.9 −0.7
Greens hold Swing +0.7

Elections in the 2010s[edit]

2019[edit]

2019 New South Wales state election: Newtown[9][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Jenny Leong 21,326 46.05 +0.48
Labor Norma Ingram 12,202 26.35 −4.44
Liberal Rohan Indraghanti 6,730 14.53 −3.25
Keep Sydney Open Laura White 3,295 7.11 +7.11
Animal Justice Michelle Buckmaster 1,105 2.39 +0.21
Sustainable Australia Hugh Watson 967 2.09 +2.09
Small Business Aaron Le Saux 687 1.48 +1.48
Total formal votes 46,312 97.88 +0.41
Informal votes 1,004 2.12 −0.41
Turnout 47,316 83.88 −2.58
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Norma Ingram 28,960 77.66 +3.24
Liberal Rohan Indraghanti 8,329 22.34 −3.24
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Jenny Leong 24,849 63.83 +4.56
Labor Norma Ingram 14,078 36.17 −4.56
Greens hold Swing +4.56

2015[edit]

2015 New South Wales state election: Newtown[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Jenny Leong 20,689 45.6 +10.1
Labor Penny Sharpe 13,978 30.8 +0.4
Liberal Rachael Wheldall 8,074 17.8 −3.2
Animal Justice Michael Walsh 989 2.2 +2.2
Cyclists Noel McFarlane 828 1.8 +1.8
Christian Democrats Karl Schubert 453 1.0 −0.1
No Land Tax Dale Dinham 386 0.9 +0.9
Total formal votes 45,397 97.5 +0.1
Informal votes 1,179 2.5 −0.1
Turnout 46,576 86.5 +4.0
Notional two-party-preferred count
Labor Penny Sharpe 27,526 74.4 +10.4
Liberal Rachael Wheldall 9,461 25.6 −10.4
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Jenny Leong 22,605 59.3 +4.8
Labor Penny Sharpe 15,532 40.7 −4.8
Greens notional hold Swing +4.8
Newtown was a new seat, partly replacing the abolished district of Marrickville.[13] The member for Marrickville, Carmel Tebbutt (Labor), did not contest the election. Newtown was a notional Green seat as a result of the redistribution.[14]

1950 - 2015[edit]

District abolished

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

1947[edit]

1947 New South Wales state election: Newtown[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Lang Labor Lilian Fowler 9,446 47.0 -8.6
Labor Arthur Greenup 9,264 46.1 +1.7
Communist Freda Brown 1,367 6.8 +6.8
Total formal votes 20,077 97.6 +1.6
Informal votes 486 2.4 -1.6
Turnout 20,563 94.9 +3.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Lang Labor Lilian Fowler 10,135 50.5 -5.1
Labor Arthur Greenup 9,942 49.5 +5.1
Lang Labor hold Swing -5.1

1944[edit]

1944 New South Wales state election: Newtown[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Lang Labor Lilian Fowler 9,989 55.6 +55.6
Labor Frank Burke 7,987 44.4 -7.2
Total formal votes 17,976 96.0 -0.6
Informal votes 753 4.0 +0.6
Turnout 18,729 91.7 -0.1
Lang Labor gain from Labor Swing N/A

1941[edit]

1941 New South Wales state election: Newtown[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 9,448 51.6
Independent Labor Lilian Fowler 5,877 32.1
State Labor Andrew Carruthers 2,970 16.2
Total formal votes 18,295 96.6
Informal votes 642 3.4
Turnout 18,937 91.8
Labor hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1930s[edit]

1938[edit]

1938 New South Wales state election: Newtown[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 11,757 70.9 +3.4
Independent Cyril Glassop 4,831 29.1 +29.1
Total formal votes 16,588 97.1 0.0
Informal votes 503 2.9 0.0
Turnout 17,091 96.0 -0.9
Labor hold Swing N/A

1935[edit]

1935 New South Wales state election: Newtown[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Frank Burke 11,042 67.5 +0.3
Federal Labor Joseph Bugler 5,318 32.5 +30.0
Total formal votes 16,360 97.1 0.0
Informal votes 490 2.9 0.0
Turnout 16,850 96.9 0.0
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932[edit]

1932 New South Wales state election: Newtown[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Frank Burke 10,885 67.2 -16.2
United Australia Robert Williams 4,605 28.4 +13.7
Federal Labor Albert Clifton 409 2.5 +2.5
Communist Jack Kavanagh 224 1.4 0.0
Independent Henry Dawson 72 0.4 +0.4
Total formal votes 16,195 97.1 -0.6
Informal votes 483 2.9 +0.6
Turnout 16,678 96.6 +1.4
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930[edit]

1930 New South Wales state election: Newtown[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 13,395 83.9
Nationalist William Pickup 2,353 14.7
Communist Jack Kavanagh 224 1.4
Total formal votes 15,972 97.7
Informal votes 372 2.3
Turnout 16,344 95.2
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s[edit]

1927[edit]

1927 New South Wales state election: Newtown[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 8,686 74.6
Nationalist William Pickup 2,956 25.4
Total formal votes 11,642 98.7
Informal votes 155 1.3
Turnout 11,797 80.7
Labor win (new seat)

1920 - 1927[edit]

District abolished

Elections in the 1910s[edit]

1917[edit]

1917 New South Wales state election: Newtown[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 3,690 55.1 -10.5
Nationalist Robert Hollis 2,654 39.6 +7.3
Independent Tom Walsh 299 4.5 +4.5
Ind. Socialist Labor John Kilburn 51 0.8 -1.3
Total formal votes 6,694 98.8 +0.8
Informal votes 82 1.2 -0.8
Turnout 6,776 58.2 -4.0
Labor hold  
The sitting member Robert Hollis was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription.[24]

1913[edit]

1913 New South Wales state election: Newtown[25][26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert Hollis 4,465 65.6
Liberal Reform Percy Stevens 2,198 32.3
Australasian Socialist Luke Jones 140 2.1
Total formal votes 6,803 98.0
Informal votes 141 2.0
Turnout 6,944 62.2
Labor hold  

1910[edit]

1910 New South Wales state election: Newtown[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Hollis 4,221 62.7
Liberal Reform William Ferguson 2,492 37.0
Independent Patrick Quinn 22 0.3
Total formal votes 6,735 97.4
Informal votes 177 2.6
Turnout 6,912 67.6
Labour hold  

Elections in the 1900s[edit]

1907[edit]

1907 New South Wales state election: Newtown[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Hollis 3,224 50.4
Liberal Reform Harold Morgan 3,150 49.3
Independent Patrick Quinn 20 0.3
Total formal votes 6,394 97.6
Informal votes 156 2.4
Turnout 6,550 71.4
Labour hold  

1904[edit]

1904 New South Wales state election: Newtown[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Hollis 2,615 51.8
Liberal Reform Harold Morgan 2,411 47.7
Socialist Labor John Neill 27 0.5
Total formal votes 5,053 99.3
Informal votes 35 0.7
Turnout 5,088 56.4
Labour win (new seat)
Newtown was a re-created seat and consisted of parts of the abolished seats of Newtown-Erskine, Newtown-Camperdown and Newtown-St Peters. The member for Newtown-Erskine was Robert Hollis (Labour). The member for Newtown-Camperdown was James Smith (Independent Progressive) who successfully contested Camperdown. The member for Newtown-St Peters was James Fallick (Independent Liberal) who successfully contested Singleton as an official Liberal Reform candidate.

District recreated

1894 - 1904[edit]

District abolished

Elections in the 1890s[edit]

1891[edit]

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Wednesday 17 June [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Francis Cotton (elected 1) 2,572 14.1
Labour John Hindle (elected 2) 2,411 13.2
Free Trade Joseph Abbott (re-elected 3) 2,173 11.9
Free Trade Edmund Molesworth (re-elected 4) 2,136 11.7
Free Trade John Salmon 1,576 8.6
Free Trade Nicholas Hawken (defeated) 1,488 8.1
Protectionist Richard Bellemey 1,400 7.7
Protectionist Wilfred Blacket 1,353 7.4
Independent Thomas Midelton 1,327 7.3
Protectionist James Smith 1,098 6.0
Ind. Free Trade Marcus Clark 759 4.2
Total formal votes 18,293 99.2
Informal votes 140 0.8
Turnout 5,555 68.1
  Labour win 1, gain 1 from Free Trade (1 new seat)
  Free Trade hold 2

Elections in the 1880s[edit]

1889[edit]

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Saturday 2 February [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Joseph Abbott (elected 1) 2,747 21.0
Free Trade Edmund Molesworth (elected 2) 2,690 20.6
Free Trade Nicholas Hawken (elected 3) 2,634 20.1
Protectionist James Smith 1,722 13.2
Protectionist Richard Bellemey 1,693 12.9
Protectionist James Angus 1,604 12.3
Total formal votes 13,090 99.4
Informal votes 80 0.6
Turnout 4,909 69.0
  Free Trade hold 3  

1888 by-election 2[edit]

1888 Newtown by-election
Saturday 25 February [32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Joseph Mitchell (elected) 2,064 51.9
Protectionist James Smith 1,917 48.2
Total formal votes 3,981 99.0 +0.6
Informal votes 42 1.0 -0.6
Turnout 4,023 59.5 +3.9
Free Trade hold Swing
William Foster (Free Trade) was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court.[32]

1888 by-election 1[edit]

1888 Newtown by-election 1
Friday 3 February [33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Joseph Abbott (elected) 1,890 51.1
Protectionist James Smith 1,809 48.9
Total formal votes 3,699 98.4 -1.0
Informal votes 62 1.7 +1.0
Turnout 3,761 55.6 -0.7
Free Trade hold  
Frederick Gibbes (Free Trade) died.[33]

1887[edit]

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Saturday 5 February [34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade William Foster (re-elected 1) 2,404 29.6
Free Trade Frederick Gibbes (re-elected 2) 2,321 28.6
Free Trade Nicholas Hawken (elected 3) 2,106 26.0
Protectionist James Smith (defeated) 1,284 15.8
Total formal votes 8,115 99.3
Informal votes 57 0.7
Turnout 3,446 56.3

1885[edit]

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Friday 16 October [35]
Candidate Votes %
William Foster (elected 1) 1,906 23.6
James Smith (elected 2) 1,899 23.5
Frederick Gibbes (re-elected 3) 1,731 21.4
Richard Bellemey 1,154 14.3
Nicholas Hawken 726 9.0
Joseph Mitchell (defeated) 668 8.3
Total formal votes 8,084 99.1
Informal votes 71 0.9
Turnout 3,515 65.0
  (1 new seat)

1883 by-election[edit]

1883 Newtown by-election
Saturday 13 January [36]
Candidate Votes %
Joseph Mitchell (elected) 1,249 50.7
Henry Copeland (defeated) 1,217 49.4
Total formal votes 2,466 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 2,466 64.7
Henry Copeland was appointed Secretary for Public Works in the Stuart ministry.[36]

1882[edit]

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Saturday 2 December [37]
Candidate Votes %
Frederick Gibbes (elected 1) 1,209 29.4
Henry Copeland (re-elected 2) 976 23.7
William Foster (defeated) 966 23.5
Joseph Mitchell (defeated) 960 23.4
Total formal votes 4,111 99.5
Informal votes 20 0.5
Turnout 2,429 63.7
Henry Copeland was the member for New England to challenge William Foster, the Minister for Justice. Joseph Mitchell subsequently contested Canterbury but was again unsuccessful.

1881 by-election[edit]

1881 Newtown by-election
Thursday 1 December [38]
Candidate Votes %
Joseph Mitchell (elected) 1,091 75.9
Thomas Dalveen 346 24.1
Total formal votes 1,437 98.2
Informal votes 27 1.8
Turnout 1,464 41.5
Stephen Brown was appointed to the Legislative Council.[38]

1880[edit]

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Monday 22 November [39]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (re-elected 1) 1,545 36.3
William Foster (elected 2) 1,281 30.1
John Young 844 19.8
Joseph Mitchell 588 13.8
Total formal votes 4,258 99.0
Informal votes 42 1.0
Turnout 2,171 64.3
  (1 new seat)

Elections in the 1870s[edit]

1877[edit]

1877 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Saturday 27 October [40]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (re-elected) 1,083 82.7
James Yeomans 227 17.3
Total formal votes 1,310 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 1,310 39.3

1874[edit]

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Monday 14 December 1874 [41]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (re-elected) unopposed

1872[edit]

1872 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Monday 4 March [42]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (re-elected) 1,125 92.6
Edward Flood 81 6.7
Elias Bethel 9 0.7
Total formal votes 1,215 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 1,215 46.6

Elections in the 1860s[edit]

1869[edit]

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Friday 10 December 1869 [43]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (re-elected) 925 60.4
Patrick Shepherd 606 39.6
Total formal votes 1,531 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 1,531 63.3

1864[edit]

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Wednesday 7 December 1864 [44]
Candidate Votes %
Stephen Brown (elected) unopposed

1861 by-election[edit]

1861 Newtown by-election
Friday 12 July [45]
Candidate Votes %
Thomas Holt (elected) 470 51.4
Stephen Brown 445 48.6
Total formal votes 915 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 915 54.6
Alexander McArthur was appointed to the Legislative Council.[45]

1860[edit]

1860 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Monday 17 December [46]
Candidate Votes %
Alexander McArthur (re-elected) 493 55.2
Stephen Brown 401 44.9
Total formal votes 894 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 894 51.8

Elections in the 1850s[edit]

1859[edit]

1859 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown
Friday 17 June [47]
Candidate Votes %
Alexander McArthur (elected) 354 37.5
Stephen Brown 222 23.5
Edward Hill 219 23.2
Thomas Holt 149 15.8
Total formal votes 944 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 944 63.3

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