Electoral district of Hamilton (New South Wales)
Hamilton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales between 1927 and 1971, named after the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton.[1]
Members for Hamilton
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
David Murray [2] | Labor | 1927–1928 | |
James Smith [3] | Labor | 1928–1930 | |
Hugh Connell [4] | Labor | 1930–1934 | |
William Brennan [5] | Labor | 1934–1935 | |
Joshua Arthur [6] | Labor | 1935–1950 | |
George Campbell [7] | Labor | 1950–1959 | |
Robert McCartney [8] | Labor | 1959–1971 |
Election results
Elections in the 1960s
1968
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
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
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
1959
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
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
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
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
1947
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
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
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
1938
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Joshua Arthur | unopposed | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
1935
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
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1932
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
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 |
Elections in the 1920s
1928 by-election
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1927
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
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- "Mr David Murray (1885–1928)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- "Mr James Edward Smith (1887–1962)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- "Major Hugh John Connell (1884-1934)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- "Mr William Edward Brennan (1865–1937)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- "Mr Joshua George Arthur (1906-1974)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- "Mr George Glover Campbell (1887-1967)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- "Mr Robert Arthur McCartney (1906- )". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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