Electoral results for the district of Namoi

Namoi, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1880 to 1894 and from 1904 to 1950.

Election	Member		Party
1880		Thomas Dangar	None
1882
1885		Charles Collins	None
1887		Thomas Dangar	Free Trade
1889
1890 by		Charles Collins	Free Trade	Member		Party
1891					Job Sheldon	Labor
Election	Member		Party
1904		Albert Ernest Collins	Independent Liberal
1907
1910		George Black	Labor
1913			Labor / Independent Labor
1917		Walter Wearne	Ind. Nationalist	Member		Party	Member		Party
1920			Progressive		Frank Chaffey	Nationalist		Patrick Scully	Labor
1922			Nationalist
1923 apt								William Scully	Labor
1925
1927		William Scully	Labor
1930
1932		Colin Sinclair	Country
1935
1938
1941		Raymond Hamilton	Labor
1944
1947

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1923 appointment

Patrick Scully resigned on 20 September 1923. Between 1920 and 1927 the Legislative Assembly was elected using a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark). The Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act, provided that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate "who represents the same party interest as the late member". William Scully had the highest number of votes of the unsuccessful Labor candidates at the 1922 election and took his seat on 20 September 1923.

Elections in the 1900s

1904

District re-created

1894 - 1904

District abolished

Elections in the 1890s

1891

This section is an excerpt from 1891 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi

1891 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Friday 26 June 

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour NSW	Job Sheldon (elected 1)	995	39.5
	free trade	Charles Collins (re-elected 2)	825	32.8
	free trade	John Mackay	697	27.7
Total formal votes			2,517	99.6
Informal votes			11	0.4
Turnout			1,660	51.6
	Labor win 1		(1 new seat)
	Free Trade hold 1

Elections in the 1880s

1889

This section is an excerpt from 1889 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi

1889 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Wednesday 13 February 

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	free trade	Thomas Dangar (elected)	733	61.2
	protectionist	William Buchanan	464	38.8
Total formal votes			1,197	97.0
Informal votes			37	3.0
Turnout			1,234	41.6
	Template:Australian politics/name/free trade hold		Swing	No

1887

This section is an excerpt from 1887 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi

1887 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Tuesday 22 February 

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	free trade	Thomas Dangar (elected)	762	65.0
	free trade	George Dale	411	35.0
Total formal votes			1,173	98.3
Informal votes			20	1.7
Turnout			1,193	47.4

The sitting member Charles Collins did not contest the election.

1885

This section is an excerpt from 1885 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi

1885 New South Wales colonial election: The Namoi
Monday 26 October 

Candidate		Votes	%
Charles Collins (elected)		743	72.1%
William Wright		288	27.9%
Total formal votes		1,031	99.2
Informal votes		8	0.8
Turnout		1,039	48.0

The sitting member Thomas Dangar unsuccessfully contested The Gwydir.

1882

This section is an excerpt from 1882 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi

1880

This section is an excerpt from 1880 New South Wales colonial election § The Namoi