Electoral results for the district of Belmore

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Belmore, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1904 and abolished in 1920.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1904   Edward O'Sullivan Progressive
1907 Former Progressive / Labor
1910 by   Patrick Minahan Labor
1910
1913
1917   Michael Burke Labor

Election results[]

Elections in the 1910s[]

1917[]

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[]
1917 New South Wales state election: Belmore [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Michael Burke 3,224 66.9 +16.0
Independent Labor Thomas Barlow 1,596 33.1 +33.1
Total formal votes 4,820 98.5 +1.9
Informal votes 71 1.5 -1.9
Turnout 4,891 48.1 -11.7
Labor hold Swing +16.0
The sitting Labor member for Belmore, Patrick Minahan, lost preselection and unsuccessfully contested Cootamundra against Labor turned Nationalist Premier William Holman.

1913[]

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[]
1913 New South Wales state election: Belmore [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Patrick Minahan 3,518 50.9
Independent Labor John English 2,500 36.2
Liberal Reform John Haynes 887 12.8
Independent Forbes Logie 10 0.1
Total formal votes 6,915 96.6
Informal votes 242 3.4
Turnout 7,157 59.8
Labor hold  

1910[]

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[]
1910 New South Wales state election: Belmore [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick Minahan 2,656 50.7
Independent Labour John English 2,587 49.3
Total formal votes 5,243 97.4 -0.9
Informal votes 142 2.6 +0.9
Turnout 5,385 62.1 -0.2
Labour gain from Progressive Party (defunct)   
  • Edward O'Sullivan had won Belmore at the 1907 election as a Former Progressive; however, he joined the Labour Party in 1909 and died in April 1910. The by-election in May 1910 was won by Patrick Minahan (Labour) who retained the seat at the 1910 general election.

1910 by-election[]

This section is an excerpt from 1910 Belmore state by-election § Results.[]
1910 Belmore by-election
Saturday 21 May [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick Minahan 1,589 74.6
Liberal Reform George Clarke 525 24.6 -5.6
Independent James Jones 17 0.8
Total formal votes 2,131 95.7 -1.2
Informal votes 95 4.3 +1.2
Turnout 2,226 27.6 [a] -39.3
Labour gain from Progressive Party (defunct)  
  • Edward O'Sullivan had won Belmore at the 1907 election as a Former Progressive; however, he joined the Labour Party in 1909 and died in April 1910.

Elections in the 1900s[]

1907[]

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1907 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[]
1907 New South Wales state election: Belmore [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Former Progressive Edward O'Sullivan 3,441 69.7
Liberal Reform Richard Teece 1,494 30.3
Total formal votes 4,935 98.3
Informal votes 87 1.7
Turnout 5,022 62.3
Former Progressive hold  

1904[]

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1904 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[]
1904 New South Wales state election: Belmore [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Edward O'Sullivan 2,760 51.0
Liberal Reform Albert Bruntnell 1,965 36.3
Independent Jack FitzGerald 484 8.9
Independent George Perry 178 3.3
Socialist Labor Thomas Batho 24 0.4
Total formal votes 5,411 99.3
Informal votes 38 0.7
Turnout 5,449 57.1
Progressive win (new seat)
Belmore was a new seat consisted of the abolished seat of Sydney-Belmore and parts of the abolished seats of Sydney-Cook and Sydney-Phillip. The member for Sydney-Belmore was Eden George (Liberal Reform) who successfully contested Ashburnum. The members for Sydney-Cook, Samuel Whiddon (Liberal reform), and Sydney-Phillip, Daniel O'Connor (Progressive), did not contest the election. Edward O'Sullivan (Progressive) was the member for Queanbeyan.

Notes[]

  1. ^ based on an electoral roll of 8,068 at the 1907 election.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  2. ^ Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ Green, Antony. "1917 Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ Green, Antony. "1913 Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  7. ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Belmore by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  8. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1907 Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  9. ^ Green, Antony. "1904 Belmore". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
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