Electoral results for the district of Gunnedah

Gunnedah, 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		Joseph Abbott	None
1882
1885
1887		Thomas Goodwin	Protectionist
1888 by		Edwin Turner	Free Trade
1889
1891		John Kirkpatrick	Labour
1894
1895		Thomas Goodwin	Protectionist
1898
1901		David Hall	Labour

Election results

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Gunnedah [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Hall	1,008		+61.2
	Liberal Reform	Thomas Wills-Allen	639	38.8	+13.5
Total formal votes			1,647	99.3	+0.6
Informal votes			11	0.7	-0.6
Turnout			1,658	60.4	11.4
	Labour gain from Progressive

The sitting member Thomas Goodwin (Progressive) did not contest the election.

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Thomas Goodwin	631	62.5
	Free Trade	John Kirkpatrick	256	25.4
	Independent Federalist	William Case	123	12.2
Total formal votes			1,010	98.7
Informal votes			13	1.3
Turnout			1,023	49.0
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Goodwin	649	59.1
	Labour	Samuel Hutchin	422	38.4
	Ind. Free Trade	John Rogers	28	2.6
Total formal votes			1,099	98.2
Informal votes			20	1.8
Turnout			1,119	59.8
	Protectionist gain from Labour

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kirkpatrick	674	54.8
	Protectionist	Job Sheldon	477	38.8
	Ind. Free Trade	Silas Rose	42	3.4
	Ind. Protectionist	George Birney	26	2.1
	Ind. Free Trade	Jonathan Rendalls	10	0.8
Total formal votes			1,229	97.9
Informal votes			27	2.2
Turnout			1,256	66.8
	Labour hold

1891

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kirkpatrick (elected)	659	54.9
	Protectionist	Thomas Browne	407	33.9
	Protectionist	Michael Burke	76	6.3
	Protectionist	Robert Doolan	58	4.8
Total formal votes			1,200	96.5
Informal votes			43	3.5
Turnout			1,243	53.6
	Labour gain from Free Trade

1889

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Edwin Turner (elected)	658	58.2
	Protectionist	Harold Tilley	472	41.8
Total formal votes			1,130	95.4
Informal votes			55	4.6
Turnout			1,185	59.8
	Free Trade gain from Protectionist

Edwin Turner (Free Trade) won the seat at a by-election in 1888 and retained it at this election.

1888 by-election

1888 Gunnedah by-election
Wednesday 12 September [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Edwin Turner (elected)	475	57.9
	Protectionist	William Poole	346	42.1
Total formal votes			821	100.0
Informal votes			0	0.0
Turnout			821	41.4
	Free Trade gain from Protectionist

The by-election was caused by the resignation of Thomas Goodwin (Protectionist).[10]

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah
Wednesday 16 February [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Goodwin (elected)	616	62.7
	Free Trade	J Poole	367	37.3
Total formal votes			983	95.4
Informal votes			47	4.6
Turnout			1,030	50.3

The sitting member Joseph Abbott successfully contested Wentworth.

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah
Monday 19 October [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Joseph Abbott (re-elected)		706	59.7
Ethelbert Clemesha		476	40.3
Total formal votes		1,182	96.7
Informal votes		41	3.4
Turnout		1,223	62.6

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah
Wednesday 20 December [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Joseph Abbott (re-elected)		616	79.3
William Douglass		161	20.7
Total formal votes		777	95.9
Informal votes		33	4.1
Turnout		837	40.1

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Gunnedah
Monday 29 November [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Joseph Abbott (elected)		714	61.1
Thomas Browne		454	38.9
Total formal votes		1,168	97.5
Informal votes		30	2.5
Turnout		1,198	62.5
		(new seat)

References

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