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

The Richmond, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1880 and abolished in 1913.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1880		Charles Fawcett	None
1882		Samuel Gray	None	Member		Party
1885		Thomas Ewing	None		Patrick Hogan	None
1887			Protectionist		Frederick Crouch	Protectionist	Member		Party
1889					Bruce Nicoll	Protectionist		John Perry	Protectionist
1891
1894		Robert Pyers	Ind. Protectionist
1895			Protectionist
1898
1901			Progressive
1904		John Perry	Progressive
1907			Liberal Reform
1910

Election results

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: The Richmond [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	John Perry	3,687	60.91
	Labour	William Gillies	4,486	66.1
Total formal votes			6,053	97.84
Informal votes			172	2.76
Turnout			6,225	72.01
	Liberal Reform hold

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: The Richmond [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	John Perry (b 1845)	3,007	60.3	+22.3
	Independent	Thomas Temperley	1,984	39.8
Total formal votes			4,991	96.8
Informal votes			163	3.2
Turnout			5,154	69.3
	Member changed to Liberal Reform from Progressive		Swing	+22.3

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: The Richmond [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Perry (b 1845)	1,330	38.0
	Liberal Reform	Thomas Temperley	1,290	36.9
	Independent	Robert Campbell	763	21.8
	Independent Liberal	Philip Morton	117	3.3
Total formal votes			3,500	99.0
Informal votes			37	1.1
Turnout			3,537	55.8
	Progressive hold

The Richmond lost much of the district to Tenterfield and was expanded to include all of the abolished seat of Ballina and parts of the abolished seats of Lismore and The Tweed. The member for The Richmond was Robert Pyers (Progressive) who unsuccessfully contested Tenterfield. The member for Ballina was John Perry (b 1845). The member for Lismore was John Coleman (Liberal Reform) who successfully contested Rous, defeating the member for The Tweed, Richard Meagher (Independent), who stood as a Progressive candidate.

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: The Richmond [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Robert Pyers	854	73.2	-6.0
	Liberal Reform	Thomas McFadden	222	19.0
	Independent Liberal	John Harper	91	7.8
Total formal votes			1,167	99.2	+0.3
Informal votes			10	0.9	-0.3
Turnout			1,177	53.0	+3.7
	Progressive hold

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Robert Pyers	665	79.2
	Ind. Free Trade	John Willard	175	20.8
Total formal votes			840	98.8
Informal votes			10	1.2
Turnout			850	49.3
	National Federal hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Robert Pyers	517	53.2
	Ind. Protectionist	Robert Page	392	40.4
	Ind. Protectionist	Donald Cameron	38	3.9
	Ind. Protectionist	George Martin	24	2.5
Total formal votes			971	98.3
Informal votes			17	1.7
Turnout			988	59.5
	Protectionist hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Protectionist	Robert Pyers	612	46.2
	Ind. Protectionist	Robert Page	309	23.3
	Ind. Protectionist	Allan Cameron	300	22.7
	Ind. Protectionist	James Stock	79	6.0
	Ind. Protectionist	Samuel Northcote	24	1.8
Total formal votes			1,324	98.7
Informal votes			17	1.3
Turnout			1,341	80.5
	Ind. Protectionist win		(previously 3 members)

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Wednesday 24 June [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Protectionist	Thomas Ewing (re-elected 1)	2,464	23.3
	Ind. Protectionist	Bruce Nicoll (re-elected 2)	2,109	20.0
	Ind. Protectionist	John Perry (re-elected 3)	1,965	18.6
	Protectionist	James Stock	1,621	15.4
	Protectionist	Samuel Northcote	930	8.8
	Protectionist	Richard Luscombe	836	7.9
	Protectionist	George Martin	632	6.0
Total formal votes			10,557	98.8
Informal votes			125	1.2
Turnout			3,989	55.8
	3 Members changed to Ind. Protectionist from Protectionist

Thomas Ewing, Bruce Nicoll and John Perry whilst Protectionists, supported the Free Trade government of Sir Henry Parkes.[11]

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Wednesday 13 February [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Ewing (elected 1)	2,862	33.3
	Protectionist	Bruce Nicoll (elected 2)	2,525	29.4
	Protectionist	John Perry (elected 3)	1,973	23.0
	Protectionist	William Bourke	1,231	14.3
Total formal votes			8,591	99.7
Informal votes			24	0.3
Turnout			3,262	55.0
	Protectionist hold 2 and win 1		(1 new seat)

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Saturday 26 February [13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Ewing (re-elected 1)	2,153	42.0
	Protectionist	Frederick Crouch (elected 2)	1,950	38.0
	Free Trade	James Barrie	659	12.9
	Free Trade	R Lopez	366	7.1
Total formal votes			5,128	99.5
Informal votes			27	0.5
Turnout			2,828	54.7

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Wednesday 28 October [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Ewing (elected 1)		1,922	40.9
Patrick Hogan (elected 2)		1,454	30.9
Frederick Crouch		1,280	27.2
George Dibbs		46	1.0
Total formal votes		4,702	99.2
Informal votes		40	0.8
Turnout		2,796	59.9
		(1 new seat)

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Saturday 9 December [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
Samuel Gray (elected)		1,046	60.4
Patrick Hogan		686	39.6
Total formal votes		1,732	97.4
Informal votes		47	2.6
Turnout		1,779	60.8

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: The Richmond
Wednesday 24 November [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Charles Fawcett (re-elected)		unopposed
		(new seat)

The Richmond was created from the northern part of The Clarence and Charles Fawcett was the member for The Clarence.

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