Electoral results for the district of Gundagai

Gundagai, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1880 and abolished in 1904.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1880		William Forster	None
1882 by		Bruce Smith	None
1882
1884 by		James Watson	None
1885		Jack Want	None
1887			Ind. Free Trade
1889		John Barnes	Protectionist
1891
1894
1895
1898
1901			Progressive

Election results

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Gundagai [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Barnes	785	39.4	-0.3
	Independent	Walter Griffin	709	35.6
	Liberal Reform	John Miller	449	22.5
	Independent Liberal	James Cook	49	2.5
Total formal votes			1,992	98.9	+0.8
Informal votes			22	1.1	-0.8
Turnout			2,014	69.5	4.0
	Progressive hold

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	John Barnes	591	39.7
	Independent Federalist	John Miller	511	34.3
	Independent Federalist	Waldo Sibthorpe	316	21.2
	Labour	William Matchett	70	4.7
Total formal votes			1,488	98.1
Informal votes			29	1.9
Turnout			1,517	63.5
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	John Barnes	648	47.8
	Labour	John Day	464	34.2
	Ind. Protectionist	John Miller	244	18.0
Total formal votes			1,356	99.1
Informal votes			13	1.0
Turnout			1,369	66.9
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	John Barnes	699	46.3
	Independent Labour	Robert McCook	385	25.5
	Free Trade	Frederick Pinkstone	333	22.1
	Ind. Free Trade	Richard Ramsden	92	6.1
Total formal votes			1,509	96.9
Informal votes			48	3.1
Turnout			1,557	77.8
	Protectionist hold

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Saturday 27 June [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	John Barnes (elected)	887	62.2
	Free Trade	Henry Deakin	540	37.8
Total formal votes			1,427	97.6
Informal votes			35	2.4
Turnout			1,462	64.1
	Protectionist hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Saturday 9 February [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	John Barnes (elected)	686	54.1
	Protectionist	John McLaughlin	582	45.9
Total formal votes			1,268	97.7
Informal votes			30	2.3
Turnout			1,298	58.4
	Protectionist gain from Ind. Free Trade

The sitting member Jack Want (Independent Free Trade) did not contest the election.

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Wednesday 16 February [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Free Trade	Jack Want (re-elected)	701	55.3
	Protectionist	Robert Newman	566	44.7
Total formal votes			1,267	98.5
Informal votes			19	1.5
Turnout			1,286	49.2

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Thursday 22 October [11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Jack Want (elected)		943	62.8
Gerard Phillips		559	37.2
Total formal votes		1,502	98.7
Informal votes		20	1.3
Turnout		1,522	64.1

1884 by-election

1884 Gundagai by-election
Tuesday 22 April [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
James Watson (elected)		558	50.3
Jack Want		552	49.7
Total formal votes		1,110	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,110	61.1

Bruce Smith resigned.[12]

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Wednesday 13 December [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Bruce Smith (re-elected)		588	62.9
Frederick Pinkstone		347	37.1
Total formal votes		935	98.3
Informal votes		16	1.7
Turnout		951	54.5

Bruce Smith had been successful at a by-election on 23 November 1882 however parliament was dissolved on the same day and he could not take his seat.

1882 by-election

1882 Gundagai by-election
Thursday 23 November [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Bruce Smith (elected)		380	70.5
George Wallace		92	17.1
Robert Barbour		67	12.4
Total formal votes		539	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		539	30.9

William Forster died.[14]

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Gundagai
Tuesday 30 November [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Forster (elected)		600	52.2
Frederick Pinkstone		303	26.4
Samuel Swift		246	21.4
Total formal votes		1,149	98.5
Informal votes		17	1.5
Turnout		1,167	66.7
		(new seat)

Gundagai partly replaced the abolished district of The Lachlan.

References

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