Electoral results for the district of Molong

Molong, 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		Andrew Ross	None
1882
1885
1887			Ind. Protectionist
1889			Protectionist
1891
1894
1895
1898			National Federal
1901			Progressive / Independent Liberal

Election results

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Molong [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Ross	671	55.2	+10.6
	Liberal Reform	John Withington	544	44.8	+13.6
Total formal votes			1,215	99.1	-0.1
Informal votes			11	0.9	+0.1
Turnout			1,226	56.6	-4.9
	Progressive hold

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Molong [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Andrew Ross	558	44.7
	Free Trade	Harrington McCulloch	389	31.1
	Independent Federalist	William Shield	302	24.2
Total formal votes			1,249	99.2
Informal votes			10	0.8
Turnout			1,259	61.6
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Molong [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Andrew Ross	548	45.3
	Free Trade	Harrington McCulloch	412	34.1
	Ind. Protectionist	John Wynne	108	8.9
	Ind. Protectionist	William Melville	85	7.0
	Ind. Protectionist	Charles Lauer	56	4.6
Total formal votes			1,209	99.1
Informal votes			11	0.9
Turnout			1,220	64.2
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Molong [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Andrew Ross	504	37.4
	Free Trade	Harrington McCulloch	311	23.1
	Ind. Protectionist	William Melville	253	18.8
	Independent Labour	Charles Lauer	247	18.4
	Ind. Protectionist	Arthur Sherwin	20	1.5
	Ind. Protectionist	John Ardill	11	0.8
Total formal votes			1,346	94.3
Informal votes			82	5.7
Turnout			1,428	77.2
	Protectionist hold

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Monday 29 June [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Andrew Ross (re-elected)	844	62.4
	Labour	Cornelius Lindsay	319	23.6
	Free Trade	John Hurley	189	14.0
Total formal votes			1,352	97.5
Informal votes			35	2.5
Turnout			1,387	65.2
	Protectionist hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Monday 28 January [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Andrew Ross (elected)	unopposed
Total formal votes			25,142	99.8
Informal votes			47	0.2
Turnout			6,977	61.2
	Member changed to Protectionist from Ind. Protectionist

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Tuesday 8 February [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Protectionist	Andrew Ross (re-elected)	unopposed

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Thursday 29 October [11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Andrew Ross (re-elected)		695	54.8
Fergus Smith		573	45.2
Total formal votes		1,268	98.3
Informal votes		22	1.7
Turnout		1,290	69.1

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Tuesday 12 December [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Andrew Ross (re-elected)		656	75.8
Willoughby Andrew		210	24.3
Total formal votes		866	98.1
Informal votes		17	1.9
Turnout		883	47.5

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Molong
Friday 26 November [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Andrew Ross (elected)		520	50.3
John Smith		514	49.7
Total formal votes		1,034	97.7
Informal votes		24	2.3
Turnout		1,058	57.0
		(new seat)

References

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