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

Election results

1981 by-election

1981 Sturt by-election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Country John Sullivan 11,614 63.1 -3.0
Labor Michael Anthony 6,805 37.0 +3.0
Total formal votes 18,419 99.1 +0.5
Informal votes 165 0.9 -0.5
Turnout 18,584 82.6 -11.2
National Country hold Swing-3.0

1978

1978 New South Wales state election: Sturt[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Country Tim Fischer 13,603 66.0 -2.8
Labor Michael Anthony 6,995 34.0 +2.8
Total formal votes 20,598 98.7 -0.4
Informal votes 280 1.3 +0.4
Turnout 20,878 93.8 -0.6
National Country hold Swing-2.8

1976

1976 New South Wales state election: Sturt[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Tim Fischer 13,803 68.8 +1.2
Labor Cuthbert Richardson 6,266 31.2 +3.9
Total formal votes 20,069 99.1 +0.3
Informal votes 182 0.9 -0.3
Turnout 20,251 94.4 +0.7
Country hold Swing-3.4

1973

1973 New South Wales state election: Sturt[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Tim Fischer 13,012 67.6 +28.1
Labor John Foley 5,259 27.3 +27.3
Democratic Labor Joseph Lenehan 962 5.0 -3.8
Total formal votes 19,233 98.8
Informal votes 240 1.2
Turnout 19,473 93.7
Two-party-preferred result
Country Tim Fischer 13,782 71.7 +7.4
Labor John Foley 5,454 28.3 +28.3
Country hold Swing+7.4

1971

1971 New South Wales state election: Sturt[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Tim Fischer 6,657 39.5
Independent Ernest Mitchell 5,484 32.5
Liberal William Dixon 3,226 19.1
Democratic Labor Bernard O'Keeffe 1,488 8.8
Total formal votes 16,855 98.5
Informal votes 262 1.5
Turnout 17,117 93.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Tim Fischer 10,838 64.3
Independent Ernest Mitchell 6,017 35.7
Country hold SwingN/A

District re-created

1968 - 1971

District abolished

District abolished

1965

1965 New South Wales state election: Sturt[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Wattison 9,487 71.2 −3.8
Country Edward Brown 3,831 28.8 +3.8
Total formal votes 13,318 98.5 −0.5
Informal votes 196 1.5 +0.5
Turnout 13,514 88.6 +0.7
Labor hold Swing−3.8

1962

1962 New South Wales state election: Sturt[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Wattison 10,284 75.0 +7.0
Country Edward Brown 3,424 25.0 +4.6
Total formal votes 13,708 99.0
Informal votes 143 1.0
Turnout 13,851 87.9
Labor hold Swing+2.9

1959

1959 New South Wales state election: Sturt[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Wattison 10,034 68.0
Country Edward Brown 3,016 20.4
Democratic Labor Imre Mailath 1,277 8.6
Communist Edward Craill 435 3.0
Total formal votes 14,762 98.3
Informal votes 262 1.7
Turnout 15,024 88.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor William Wattison 10,637 72.1
Country Edward Brown 4,125 27.9
Labor hold Swing

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: Sturt[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Wattison 10,107 70.0 −30.0
Independent John Fox 2,858 19.8 +19.8
Communist William Flynn 1,468 10.2 +10.2
Total formal votes 14,433 98.0
Informal votes 287 2.0
Turnout 14,720 87.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor William Wattison 10,841 75.1 −24.9
Independent John Fox 3,592 24.9 +24.9
Labor hold SwingN/A

1953

1950

1950 New South Wales state election: Sturt[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Wattison unopposed
Labor hold  
Sturt was reconstituted, with the former district being absorbed by Cobar. The new district comprised part of Cobar, including the towns of South Broken Hill and Menindee, part of Murray, and the western part of the abolished district of Lachlan.

1947

1944

1941

1941 New South Wales state election: Sturt[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ted Horsington 8,188 70.8
State Labor Arthur Campbell 3,372 29.2
Total formal votes 11,560 96.8
Informal votes 383 3.2
Turnout 11,943 85.6
Labor hold Swing

1938

1938 New South Wales state election: Sturt[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ted Horsington unopposed
Labor hold  

1935

1935 New South Wales state election: Sturt[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Ted Horsington 8,924 88.0 -5.2
Independent Stuart Coombe 1,213 12.0 +12.0
Total formal votes 10,137 90.4 +7.0
Informal votes 1,070 9.6 -7.0
Turnout 11,207 92.5 -2.1
Labor (NSW) hold SwingN/A

1932

1932 New South Wales state election: Sturt[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor (NSW) Ted Horsington 8,945 93.2 0.0
Communist Frederick Miller 656 6.8 0.0
Total formal votes 9,601 83.4 -4.4
Informal votes 1,907 16.6 +4.4
Turnout 11,508 94.6 +0.2
Labor (NSW) hold Swing0.0

1930

1930 New South Wales state election: Sturt[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ted Horsington 9,349 93.2
Communist Leslie King 685 6.8
Total formal votes 10,034 87.8
Informal votes 1,394 12.2
Turnout 11,428 94.4
Labor hold Swing

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: Sturt[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ted Horsington 7,218 70.0
Nationalist Alfred Gorrie 3,088 30.0
Total formal votes 10,306 98.6
Informal votes 151 1.4
Turnout 10,457 74.8
Labor win (new seat)

1925

1925 New South Wales state election: Sturt[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 4,423
Labor Mat Davidson (elected 1) 7,237 40.9 +9.6
Labor Ted Horsington (elected 2) 4,493 25.4 +21.3
Labor Thomas Griffiths 1,046 5.9 +5.9
Nationalist Brian Doe (elected 3) 4,355 24.6 +5.1
Nationalist William Shoobridge 378 2.1 +2.1
Nationalist Francis Harvey 96 0.5 +0.5
Independent Charles Dooley 85 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 17,690 95.0 +0.5
Informal votes 934 5.0 -0.5
Turnout 18,624 60.3 +0.9
Party total votes
Labor 12,776 72.2 +25.8
Nationalist 4,829 27.3 -5.7
Independent Charles Dooley 85 0.5 +0.5

1922 appointment

Jabez Wright died on 10 September 1922.[24] Ted Horsington was the only unsuccessful Labor candidate at the 1922 election and took his seat on 20 September 1922.[25]

1922

1922 New South Wales state election: Sturt[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 4,371
Labor Mat Davidson (elected 1) 5,472 31.3 +7.1
Labor Jabez Wright (elected 3) 1,922 11.0 -7.4
Labor Ted Horsington 708 4.1 +4.1
Nationalist Brian Doe (elected 2) 3,401 19.5 -5.1
Nationalist William Daish 1,670 9.5 +9.5
Nationalist John Wicks 707 4.0 +4.0
Industrial Labor Donald Grant 1,378 7.9 +7.9
Independent Ernest Wetherell 856 4.9 +4.9
Independent William Couch 785 4.5 +4.5
Progressive Walter O'Grady 505 2.9 +2.9
Independent Charles Dooley 76 0.4 +0.4
Total formal votes 17,480 94.5 +2.4
Informal votes 1,013 5.5 -2.4
Turnout 18,493 59.4 +9.7
Party total votes
Labor 8,102 46.4 +0.7
Nationalist 5,778 33.0 +6.8
Industrial Labor 1,378 7.9 +7.9
Independent Ernest Wetherell 856 4.9 +4.9
Independent William Couch 785 4.5 +4.5
Progressive 505 2.9 +2.9
Independent Charles Dooley 76 0.4 +0.4

1921 appointment

On 22 March 1921 Percy Brookfield was murdered while trying to disarm a deranged man at Riverton.[27] 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,[28] provided that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate "who represents the same party interest as the late member". Which party interest Brookfield represented was not straightforward. He had been the Labor member for Sturt since the 1917 by-election, however he resigned from the Labor Party in August 1919,[29] and joined the Industrial Socialist Labor Party, which in January 1920 merged with the Socialist Labor Party, retaining the later name. Under this banner Brookfield was the first candidate elected at the 1920 election for Sturt.[30] He was however dissatisfied with the manner in which the affairs of that party have been carried on" and formed a new Industrial Labor Party in February 1921, shortly before his death.[31] There was debate concerning who should be appointed. The Industrial Labor Party said that John O'Reilly should be appointed, while The Sydney Morning Herald stated that Thomas Hynes had the greater number of primary votes and thus he should be appointed.[32] The nomination had to come from the recognised party leader according to votes on any censure motion and Labor leader John Storey nominated Jabez Wright.[33][34]

1920

1920 New South Wales state election: Sturt[35][36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 3,958
Labor Mat Davidson (elected 3) 3,824 24.2
Labor Jabez Wright 2,917 18.4
Labor Walter Webb 492 3.1
Socialist Labor Percy Brookfield[lower-alpha 1] (elected 1) 4,357 27.5
Socialist Labor Thomas Hynes[lower-alpha 1] 55 0.4
Socialist Labor John O'Reilly[lower-alpha 1] 34 0.2
Nationalist Brian Doe (elected 2) 3,890 24.6
Nationalist Frank Wilkinson 207 1.3
Nationalist John Thorn 53 0.3
Total formal votes 15,829 92.1
Informal votes 1,358 7.9
Turnout 17,187 49.7
Party total votes
Labor 7,233 45.7
Socialist Labor 4,446 28.1
Nationalist 4,150 26.2

1917

1917 New South Wales state election: Sturt[38]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Percy Brookfield 4,013 57.1
Ind. Nationalist Francis Harvey 3,020 42.9
Total formal votes 7,033 99.5
Informal votes 36 0.5
Turnout 7,069 62.3
Labor hold  

1917 by-election

1917 Sturt by-election
Saturday 3 February[39]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Percy Brookfield 3,301 54.4
Independent Labor Brian Doe 2,739 45.2
Independent John Evans 26 0.4
Total formal votes 6,066 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 6,066 57.4
Labor hold Swing
John Cann resigned.[39]

1913

1913 New South Wales state election: Sturt[40]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Cann unopposed
Labor hold  

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: Sturt[41]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Griffith 5,450 89.2
Liberal Reform Henry Kelly 658 10.8
Total formal votes 6,108 99.0
Informal votes 59 1.0
Turnout 6,167 72.2
Labour hold  

1908 by-election

1908 Sturt by-election[42][43]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Arthur Griffith unopposed
Labor hold Swing

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: Sturt[44]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Griffith Unopposed
Labour hold  

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: Sturt[45]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Griffith 2,658 67.1
Independent William Williams 1,304 32.9
Total formal votes 3,962 98.9
Informal votes 43 1.1
Turnout 4,005 58.0
Labour gain from Independent Labour  
Sturt absorbed part of the abolished seat of Alma and Rylstone. The member for Sturt was William Ferguson (Independent Labour) who unsuccessfully contested The Lachlan while William Williams (Independent Labour) was the member for Alma. Arthur Griffith (Labour) had previously been the member for Waratah however he resigned to unscuessfully contest the 1903 federal election.

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Sturt[46]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Labor William Ferguson 716 64.6
Labour Charles Maley 392 35.4
Total formal votes 1,108 98.7 -0.3
Informal votes 15 1.3 +0.3
Turnout 1,123 53.9 +16.9
Member changed to Independent Labour from Labour  
William Ferguson had been elected in 1898 as a Labour representative, however he was denied endorsement due to his independent behaviour in the Assembly.

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Sturt[47]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Ferguson 655 86.5
National Federal Thomas Walker 92 12.2
Independent Alexander Hendry 10 1.3
Total formal votes 757 99.0
Informal votes 8 1.1
Turnout 765 37.0
Labour hold  

1895

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Sturt[49]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Ferguson 1,065 73.1
Ind. Protectionist John Souter 393 27.0
Total formal votes 1,458 98.5
Informal votes 23 1.6
Turnout 1,481 85.1
Labour hold  

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Sturt
Saturday 20 June[50]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Cann (elected) unopposed  
Labour gain from Protectionist  
The sitting member for Sturt, Wyman Brown (Protectionist), did not contest the election.[50]

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Sturt
Wednesday 13 February[51]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Protectionist Wyman Brown (elected) 654 72.7
Protectionist Charles O'Neill 246 27.3
Total formal votes 900 97.9
Informal votes 19 2.1
Turnout 919 31.4
Protectionist win (new seat)
Sturt and Wilcannia were new seats split off from Wentworth which previously returned two members.

Notes

  1. The New South Wales Election Results database,[35] lists Brookfield as the only socialist with Hynes and O'Reilly listed as independents. Contemporary accounts show Brookfield, Hynes and O'Reilly as all being supported by the Amalgamated Miners Association political league, then under the banner of the Socialist Labor Party,[37] which subsequently split to become the Industrial Labor Party.[36]

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