Electoral results for the district of Argyle

Argyle, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has existed from the establishment of the Legislative Assembly in 1855 until the district's abolition in 1904.[1][2]

Election	Member		Party
1856		John Plunkett	None
1857 by		Daniel Deniehy	None
1858
1859		Terence Murray	None
1860
1862 by		Samuel Emmanuel	None
1864		Phillip Dignam	None
1869		Edward Butler	None
1872
1874
1877		William Davies	None	Member		Party
1880		William Holborow	None		Phillip Myers	None
1881 by					John Gannon	None
1882
1885 by					Henry Parkes	None
1885					Francis Tait	None
1887			Free Trade		Edward Ball	Free Trade
1889					Thomas Rose	Protectionist
1891
1894		Thomas Rose	Protectionist
1895
1898			National Federal
1901			Progressive

Election results

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Argyle [3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Rose	1,059	67.3	+12.2
	Liberal Reform	Francis Isaac	514	32.7	-12.2
Total formal votes			1,573	99.4	-0.1
Informal votes			9	0.6	+0.1
Turnout			1,582	59.7	-4.6
	Progressive hold

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Thomas Rose	768	55.2
	Free Trade	Francis Isaac	624	44.8
Total formal votes			0	100.0
Informal votes			0	0.0
Turnout			0	0.0
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Rose	751	58.6
	Free Trade	Benjamin Short	531	41.4
Total formal votes			1,282	98.8
Informal votes			16	1.2
Turnout			1,298	66.8
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Rose	859	56.4
	Free Trade	Henry Gannon	665	43.6
Total formal votes			1,524	98.3
Informal votes			26	1.7
Turnout			1,550	78.6
	Protectionist win		(previously 2 members)

Thomas Rose (Protectionist) was one of two sitting members for Argyle. The second member, William Holborow (Free Trade), did not contest the election.

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Saturday 20 June [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Rose (elected 1)	1,162	26.8
	Free Trade	William Holborow (elected 2)	1,074	24.8
	Protectionist	Edward Graham	1,061	24.5
	Free Trade	Edward Ball	1,042	24.0
Total formal votes			4,339	99.6
Informal votes			19	0.4
Turnout			2,252	73.4
	Free Trade hold 2

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Saturday 2 February [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William Holborow (elected 1)	982	25.9
	Free Trade	Edward Ball (elected 2)	950	25.1
	Protectionist	Thomas Rose	941	24.9
	Protectionist	Solomon Meyer	912	24.1
Total formal votes			3,785	99.6
Informal votes			17	0.5
Turnout			1,910	66.0
	Free Trade hold 2

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Friday 11 February [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William Holborow (re-elected 1)	975	35.7
	Free Trade	Edward Ball (elected 2)	970	35.5
	Protectionist	Thomas Rose	789	28.9
Total formal votes			2,734	99.6
Informal votes			11	0.4
Turnout			1,723	62.5

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Thursday 22 October [10]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Holborow (re-elected 1)		1,165	43.7
Francis Tait (elected 2)		784	29.4
Edward Ball		716	26.9
Total formal votes		2,665	99.8
Informal votes		6	0.2
Turnout		1,449	53.8

The sitting member Sir Henry Parkes successfully contested St Leonards.

1885 by-election

1885 Argyle by-election
31 March 1885 [11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Parkes (elected)		816	51.3%
John Osborne		775	48.7%
Total formal votes		1,591	97.5
Informal votes		41	2.5
Turnout		1,632	56.0

John Gannon resigned due to ill health.[11]

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Monday 11 December [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
John Gannon (re-elected 1)		1,323	45.7
William Holborow (re-elected 2)		825	28.5
George Ranken		748	25.8
Total formal votes		2,896	99.6
Informal votes		12	0.4
Turnout		1,610	58.4

1881 by-election

1881 Argyle by-election
9 December 1881 [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
John Gannon (elected)		933	53.1%
Louis Heydon		825	46.9%
Total formal votes		1,758	98.5
Informal votes		26	1.5
Turnout		1,784	63.3%

Phillip Myers died.[13]

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Friday 26 November [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Holborow (elected 1)		1,026	27.5
Phillip Myers (elected 2)		992	26.6
Louis Heydon		780	20.9
John Walsh		683	18.3
William Connolly		254	6.8
Total formal votes		3,735	99.2
Informal votes		29	0.8
Turnout		1,976	71.3
		(1 new seat)

The sitting member William Davies did not contest the election.

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Thursday 1 November [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Davies (elected)		890	61.7
Charles Heydon		553	38.3
Total formal votes		1,443	97.5
Informal votes		37	2.5
Turnout		1,480	60.9

1874

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Saturday 2 January 1875 [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Edward Butler (re-elected)		unopposed

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Friday 8 March [17]

Candidate		Votes	%
Edward Butler (re-elected)		unopposed

1869

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Friday 17 December 1869 [18]

Candidate		Votes	%
Edward Butler (elected)		unopposed

1864

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Friday 16 December 1864 [19]

Candidate		Votes	%
Phillip Dignam (elected)		569	52.5
Samuel Emanuel (defeated)		515	47.5
Total formal votes		1,084	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,084	56.5

1862 by-election

1862 Argyle by-election
Thursday 30 October [20]

Candidate		Votes	%
Samuel Emmanuel (elected)		unopposed

Terence Murray was appointed President of the Legislative Council.[20]

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Saturday 8 December [21]

Candidate		Votes	%
Terence Murray (re-elected)		unopposed

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
Saturday 18 June [22]

Candidate		Votes	%
Terence Murray (re-elected)		389	74.5
Richard Driver		133	25.5
Total formal votes		389	100.0
Informal votes		522	0.0
Turnout		522	39.6

1858

1858 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle
23 January [23]

Candidate		Votes	%
Daniel Deniehy (re-elected)		unopposed

1857 by-election

1857 Argyle by-election
Tuesday 17 February [24]

Candidate		Votes	%
Daniel Deniehy (elected)		unopposed

John Plunkett was appointed President of the Legislative Council.[24]

1856

1856 New South Wales colonial election: Argyle [25]

Candidate		Votes	%
John Plunkett (elected)		182	52.9
John Chisholm		162	47.1
Columbus Fitzpatrick		0	0.0
Total formal votes		344	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		344	64.4

Polling was conducted on 31 March 1856. Plunkett served in the old Legislative Council as an appointed member. After failed attempts to win election for Sydney City and North Eastern Boroughs, Plunkett was elected to represent Bathurst (County) on the same day as winning Argyle. After attending the first sitting of Parliament representing both seats, and even attempting to use both votes in the ballot for Speaker, Plunkett resigned as MP for Bathurst (County) and represented Argyle. Sitting Legislative Councillor for County of Argyle was Charles Nicholson who did not contest the election.

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