Electoral results for the district of Inverell

Inverell an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1894.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1880		Richard Murray	None
1882
1885		Samuel Moore	None
1887			Free Trade
1889		George Cruickshank	Protectionist
1891
1894
1895
1898
1901		William McIntyre	Progressive
1902 by		George Jones	Labour

Election results

1902 by-election

1902 Inverell by-election
Saturday 31 May [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Jones	471	37.7
	Progressive	James McIlveen	447	35.8
	Independent	William Wall	331	26.5
Total formal votes			1,249	99.5
Informal votes			6	0.5
Turnout			1,255	50.7 [lower-alpha 1]
	Labour gain from Progressive

William McIntyre (Progressive) died.[4]

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Inverell [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William McIntyre	750	55.6	-37.1
	Independent Progressive	James McIlveen	599	44.4
Total formal votes			1,349	100.0	+1.3
Informal votes			0	0.0	-1.3
Turnout			1,349	54.5	+20.93
	Progressive hold

The sitting member was George Cruickshank (Progressive) who did not contest the election as he had been elected in March 1901 to the federal seat of Gwydir.

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	George Cruickshank	567	92.7
	Independent	Thomas Jones	45	7.4
Total formal votes			612	98.7
Informal votes			8	1.3
Turnout			620	33.5
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	George Cruickshank	717	79.3
	Labour	Philip Moses	174	19.3
	Independent Labour	Thomas Jones	7	0.8
	Independent	F Webster	6	0.7
Total formal votes			904	97.5
Informal votes			23	2.5
Turnout			927	55.4
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	George Cruickshank	unopposed
	Protectionist hold

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Saturday, 20 June [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	George Cruickshank	unopposed
	Protectionist hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Saturday 9 February [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	George Cruickshank (elected)	847	65.0
	Free Trade	Alexander Riddel	456	35.0
Total formal votes			1,303	98.4
Informal votes			21	1.6
Turnout			1,324	56.7
	Protectionist gain from Free Trade

The sitting member Samuel Moore (Free Trade) did not contest the election.

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Saturday 19 February [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Samuel Moore (re-elected)	763	60.1
	Protectionist	George Cruickshank	507	39.9
Total formal votes			1,270	98.4
Informal votes			21	1.6
Turnout			1,291	63.0

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Monday 19 October [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Samuel Moore (elected)		666	57.9
Richard Murray (defeated)		484	42.1
Total formal votes		1,150	96.9
Informal votes		37	3.1
Turnout		1,187	64.6

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Saturday 9 December [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Richard Murray (re-elected)		566	57.3
Thomas Mayne		352	35.6
Thomas Jones		70	7.1
Total formal votes		988	97.2
Informal votes		29	2.9
Turnout		1,017	57.2

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Inverell
Monday 29 November [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
Richard Murray (elected)		561	54.3
G R Maclean		472	45.7
Total formal votes		1,033	96.5
Informal votes		37	3.5
Turnout		1,070	60.0
		(new seat)

Notes

1. Estimate based on a roll of 2,477 at the 1901 election.[5]

References

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