Electoral results for the district of Hamilton (New South Wales)

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Hamilton, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1859 until 1894 and from 1904 until 1920.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1927   David Murray Labor
1928 by   James Smith Labor
1930   Hugh Connell Labor
1932   Labor (NSW)
1934 by   William Brennan Labor (NSW)
1935   Joshua Arthur Labor (NSW)
1938   Labor
1941
1944
1947
1950   George Campbell Labor
1953
1956
1959   Robert McCartney Labor
1962
1965
1968

Election results[edit]

Elections in the 1960s[edit]

1968[edit]

1968 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert McCartney 12,458 60.1 -4.2
Liberal James Reeves 8,286 39.9 +4.2
Total formal votes 20,744 97.9
Informal votes 434 2.1
Turnout 21,178 94.3
Labor hold Swing -4.2

1965[edit]

1965 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert McCartney 12,262 64.3 +4.5
Liberal Richard Nathan 6,805 35.7 +1.0
Total formal votes 19,067 98.4 −0.1
Informal votes 311 1.6 +0.1
Turnout 19,378 94.7 0.0
Labor hold Swing +3.4

1962[edit]

1962 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert McCartney 11,251 59.8 +4.3
Liberal Alwyn Watkins 6,538 34.7 +1.0
Democratic Labor Robert Burke 1,030 5.5 −5.3
Total formal votes 18,819 98.5
Informal votes 289 1.5
Turnout 19,108 94.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Robert McCartney 11,457 60.9 +3.2
Liberal Alwyn Watkins 7,362 39.1 −3.2
Labor hold Swing +3.2

Elections in the 1950s[edit]

1959[edit]

1959 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert McCartney 9,937 55.5
Liberal Brian O'Loughlin 6,024 33.7
Democratic Labor John Daley 1,937 10.8
Total formal votes 17,898 98.1
Informal votes 339 1.9
Turnout 18,237 94.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Robert McCartney 10,324 57.7
Liberal Brian O'Loughlin 7,574 42.3
Labor hold Swing

1956[edit]

1956 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Campbell 9,157 55.7 −8.5
Liberal Horace Smith 7,281 44.3 +8.5
Total formal votes 16,438 99.0 +0.9
Informal votes 157 1.0 −0.9
Turnout 16,595 94.8 0.0
Labor hold Swing −8.5

1953[edit]

1953 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Campbell 10,884 64.2
Liberal John Milne 6,063 35.8
Total formal votes 16,947 98.1
Informal votes 327 1.9
Turnout 17,274 94.8
Labor hold Swing

1950[edit]

1950 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Campbell 8,046 49.1
Liberal Harry Quinlan 7,026 42.9
Independent Oscar Newton 1,315 8.0
Total formal votes 16,387 98.8
Informal votes 198 1.2
Turnout 16,585 95.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor George Campbell 8,445 51.5
Liberal Harry Quinlan 7,942 48.5
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

1947[edit]

1947 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joshua Arthur 13,830 57.6 -19.2
Liberal Oscar Newton 6,776 28.2 +28.2
Independent Harold Scott-Daisley 1,901 7.9 +7.9
Lang Labor William Lambert 1,512 6.3 -16.9
Total formal votes 24,019 98.7 +3.2
Informal votes 322 1.3 -3.2
Turnout 24,341 95.4 +3.3
Labor hold Swing N/A

1944[edit]

1944 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joshua Arthur 16,562 76.8 -8.1
Lang Labor William Campbell 5,017 23.2 +23.2
Total formal votes 21,579 95.5 -1.2
Informal votes 1,007 4.5 +1.2
Turnout 22,586 92.1 -2.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

1941[edit]

1941 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joshua Arthur 17,944 84.9
Independent Arthur Clarke 3,200 15.1
Total formal votes 21,144 96.7
Informal votes 730 3.3
Turnout 21,874 94.1
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s[edit]

1938[edit]

1938 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joshua Arthur unopposed
Labor hold  

1935[edit]

1935 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Joshua Arthur 9,824 48.7 -1.5
United Australia Ernest Richardson 9,044 44.8 +44.8
Federal Labor John Doyle 1,317 6.5 +6.5
Total formal votes 20,185 98.3 +0.6
Informal votes 351 1.7 -0.6
Turnout 20,536 96.5 -0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor (NSW) Joshua Arthur 10,622 52.6
United Australia Ernest Richardson 9,563 47.4
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A

1934 by-election[edit]

1934 Hamilton by-election
Saturday, 24 February [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) William Brennan 9,391 51.5 +1.3
United Australia Gordon Skelton 7,445 40.8 +13.3
Communist Sidney Bethune 1,220 6.7 +5.7
Independent William Stott 176 1.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 18,232 97.2 -0.5
Informal votes 527 2.8 +0.5
Turnout 18,759 91.9 -5.2
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1932[edit]

1932 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Hugh Connell 9,514 50.2 -19.6
Independent Gordon Skelton 5,219 27.5 +27.5
All for Australia Harold O'Neill 3,806 20.1 +20.1
Independent Robert Anderson 241 1.3 +1.3
Communist William Townsend 185 1.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 18,965 97.7 -0.3
Informal votes 451 2.3 +0.3
Turnout 19,416 97.1 +1.8
Labor (NSW) hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

1930[edit]

1930 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Hugh Connell 12,860 69.8
Nationalist Gordon Skelton 5,231 28.4
Communist Timothy Barry 325 1.8
Total formal votes 18,416 98.0
Informal votes 374 2.0
Turnout 18,790 95.3
Labor hold Swing
The sitting member was James Smith (Labor) who did not contest the election. Hugh Connell (Labor) was the sitting member for the abolished district of Kahibah.

Elections in the 1920s[edit]

1928 by-election[edit]

1928 Hamilton by-election
Saturday 8 September [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Smith 5,851 48.0 -10.6
Protestant Labor Walter Skelton 4,851 38.8 +31.5
Nationalist Henry Cornish 1,468 12.0 -8.5
Independent James Iceton 23 0.2 +0.2
Total formal votes 12,193 98.9 +1.0
Informal votes 140 1.1 -1.0
Turnout 12,333 70.9 -14.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor James Smith 5,968 51.2
Protestant Labor Walter Skelton 5,684 48.8
Labor hold Swing N/A
David Murray (Labor) died.[19]

1927[edit]

1927 New South Wales state election: Hamilton[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor David Murray 8,508 58.6
Nationalist Edward Sanders 2,977 20.5
Independent George Jenner 1,750 12.1
Protestant Labor James Pendlebury 1,204 8.3
Independent John Wilson 72 0.5
Total formal votes 14,511 97.9
Informal votes 304 2.1
Turnout 14,815 85.0
Labor win (new seat)

References[edit]

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