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

Hamilton, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1859 until 1894 and from 1904 until 1920.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1927		David Murray	Labor
1928 by		James Smith	Labor
1930		Hugh Connell	Labor
1932			Labor (NSW)
1934 by		William Brennan	Labor (NSW)
1935		Joshua Arthur	Labor (NSW)
1938			Labor
1941
1944
1947
1950		George Campbell	Labor
1953
1956
1959		Robert McCartney	Labor
1962
1965
1968

Election results

1968

1968 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	12,458	60.1	-4.2
	Liberal	James Reeves	8,286	39.9	+4.2
Total formal votes			20,744	97.9
Informal votes			434	2.1
Turnout			21,178	94.3
	Labor hold		Swing	-4.2

1965

1965 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	12,262	64.3	+4.5
	Liberal	Richard Nathan	6,805	35.7	+1.0
Total formal votes			19,067	98.4	−0.1
Informal votes			311	1.6	+0.1
Turnout			19,378	94.7	0.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.4

1962

1962 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	11,251	59.8	+4.3
	Liberal	Alwyn Watkins	6,538	34.7	+1.0
	Democratic Labor	Robert Burke	1,030	5.5	−5.3
Total formal votes			18,819	98.5
Informal votes			289	1.5
Turnout			19,108	94.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Robert McCartney	11,457	60.9	+3.2
	Liberal	Alwyn Watkins	7,362	39.1	−3.2
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.2

1959

1959 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	9,937	55.5
	Liberal	Brian O'Loughlin	6,024	33.7
	Democratic Labor	John Daley	1,937	10.8
Total formal votes			17,898	98.1
Informal votes			339	1.9
Turnout			18,237	94.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Robert McCartney	10,324	57.7
	Liberal	Brian O'Loughlin	7,574	42.3
	Labor hold		Swing

1956

1956 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Campbell	9,157	55.7	−8.5
	Liberal	Horace Smith	7,281	44.3	+8.5
Total formal votes			16,438	99.0	+0.9
Informal votes			157	1.0	−0.9
Turnout			16,595	94.8	0.0
	Labor hold		Swing	−8.5

1953

1953 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Campbell	10,884	64.2
	Liberal	John Milne	6,063	35.8
Total formal votes			16,947	98.1
Informal votes			327	1.9
Turnout			17,274	94.8
	Labor hold		Swing

1950

1950 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	George Campbell	8,046	49.1
	Liberal	Harry Quinlan	7,026	42.9
	Independent	Oscar Newton	1,315	8.0
Total formal votes			16,387	98.8
Informal votes			198	1.2
Turnout			16,585	95.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	George Campbell	8,445	51.5
	Liberal	Harry Quinlan	7,942	48.5
	Labor hold		Swing

1947

1947 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	13,830	57.6	-19.2
	Liberal	Oscar Newton	6,776	28.2	+28.2
	Independent	Harold Scott-Daisley	1,901	7.9	+7.9
	Lang Labor	William Lambert	1,512	6.3	-16.9
Total formal votes			24,019	98.7	+3.2
Informal votes			322	1.3	-3.2
Turnout			24,341	95.4	+3.3
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1944

1944 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	16,562	76.8	-8.1
	Lang Labor	William Campbell	5,017	23.2	+23.2
Total formal votes			21,579	95.5	-1.2
Informal votes			1,007	4.5	+1.2
Turnout			22,586	92.1	-2.0
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1941

1941 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	17,944	84.9
	Independent	Arthur Clarke	3,200	15.1
Total formal votes			21,144	96.7
Informal votes			730	3.3
Turnout			21,874	94.1
	Labor hold		Swing

1938

1938 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joshua Arthur	unopposed
	Labor hold

1935

1935 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor (NSW)	Joshua Arthur	9,824	48.7	-1.5
	United Australia	Ernest Richardson	9,044	44.8	+44.8
	Federal Labor	John Doyle	1,317	6.5	+6.5
Total formal votes			20,185	98.3	+0.6
Informal votes			351	1.7	-0.6
Turnout			20,536	96.5	-0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor (NSW)	Joshua Arthur	10,622	52.6
	United Australia	Ernest Richardson	9,563	47.4
	Labor (NSW) hold		Swing	N/A

1934 by-election

1934 Hamilton by-election
Saturday, 24 February [16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor (NSW)	William Brennan	9,391	51.5	+1.3
	United Australia	Gordon Skelton	7,445	40.8	+13.3
	Communist	Sidney Bethune	1,220	6.7	+5.7
	Independent	William Stott	176	1.0	+1.0
Total formal votes			18,232	97.2	-0.5
Informal votes			527	2.8	+0.5
Turnout			18,759	91.9	-5.2
	Labor (NSW) hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

• The by-election was triggered by the death of Hugh Connell, (Labor).[16]

1932

1932 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor (NSW)	Hugh Connell	9,514	50.2	-19.6
	Independent	Gordon Skelton	5,219	27.5	+27.5
	All for Australia	Harold O'Neill	3,806	20.1	+20.1
	Independent	Robert Anderson	241	1.3	+1.3
	Communist	William Townsend	185	1.0	+1.0
Total formal votes			18,965	97.7	-0.3
Informal votes			451	2.3	+0.3
Turnout			19,416	97.1	+1.8
	Labor (NSW) hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1930

1930 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Hugh Connell	12,860	69.8
	Nationalist	Gordon Skelton	5,231	28.4
	Communist	Timothy Barry	325	1.8
Total formal votes			18,416	98.0
Informal votes			374	2.0
Turnout			18,790	95.3
	Labor hold		Swing

1928 by-election

1928 Hamilton by-election
Saturday 8 September [19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	James Smith	5,851	48.0	-10.6
	Protestant Labor	Walter Skelton	4,851	38.8	+31.5
	Nationalist	Henry Cornish	1,468	12.0	-8.5
	Independent	James Iceton	23	0.2	+0.2
Total formal votes			12,193	98.9	+1.0
Informal votes			140	1.1	-1.0
Turnout			12,333	70.9	-14.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	James Smith	5,968	51.2
	Protestant Labor	Walter Skelton	5,684	48.8
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

David Murray (Labor) died.[19]

1927

1927 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	David Murray	8,508	58.6
	Nationalist	Edward Sanders	2,977	20.5
	Independent	George Jenner	1,750	12.1
	Protestant Labor	James Pendlebury	1,204	8.3
	Independent	John Wilson	72	0.5
Total formal votes			14,511	97.9
Informal votes			304	2.1
Turnout			14,815	85.0
	Labor win		(new seat)

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