Electoral results for the district of Yass Plains

Yass Plains, 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
1859		Thomas Laidlaw	None
1859 by
1860		Henry O'Brien	None
1861 by		Peter Faucett	None
1864
1865 by		Robert Isaacs	None
1866 by
1869		Michael Fitzpatrick	None
1872
1874
1877
1880
1882 by		Louis Heydon	None
1882
1885
1886 by		Thomas Colls	None
1887			Protectionist
1889
1891

Election results

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Wednesday 24 June [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls (re-elected)	709	56.7
	Free Trade	William Affleck	210	16.8
	Protectionist	Bernard Grogan	199	15.9
	Labour	Gustavus Herfort	132	10.6
Total formal votes			1,250	97.7
Informal votes			30	2.3
Turnout			1,280	56.9
	Protectionist hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Monday 28 January [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls (elected)	unopposed
Total formal votes			1,015	98.5
Informal votes			16	1.6
Turnout			1,031	45.7
	Protectionist hold

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Saturday 19 February [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls (re-elected)	691	56.9
	Free Trade	Henry Donaldson	524	43.1
Total formal votes			1,215	98.2
Informal votes			22	1.8
Turnout			1,247	63.9

1886 by-election

1886 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Monday 19 October [7]

Candidate		Votes	%
Louis Heydon (re-elected)		601	55.4
Richard Colonna-Close		483	44.6
Total formal votes		1,084	96.1
Informal votes		44	3.9
Turnout		1,128	61.4

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Wednesday 6 December [8]

Candidate		Votes	%
Louis Heydon (re-elected)		669	60.2
Henry Dodds		442	39.8
Total formal votes		1,111	96.6
Informal votes		39	3.4
Turnout		1,150	57.4

1882 by-election

1882 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Tuesday 23 November [9]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Fitzpatrick (re-elected)		562	59.6
Henry Dodds		381	40.4
Total formal votes		943	97.7
Informal votes		22	2.3
Turnout		964	51.9

1878 by-election

1878 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Wednesday 31 October [10]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Fitzpatrick (re-elected)		382	52.3
Michael Perry		327	44.8
Arthur Remmington		21	2.9
Total formal votes		730	96.6
Informal votes		26	3.4
Turnout		756	43.6

1874

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Friday 18 December 1874 [11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Fitzpatrick (re-elected)		412	53.2
Arthur Remmington		362	46.8
Total formal votes		774	98.2
Informal votes		14	1.8
Turnout		788	43.8

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Friday 8 March [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Fitzpatrick (re-elected)		unopposed

1869

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Friday 24 December 1869 [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Fitzpatrick (elected)		show of hands
Thomas Laidlaw

1866 by-election

1866 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1865 by-election

1865 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1864

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Tuesday 20 December 1864 [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Peter Faucett (re-elected)		480	71.0
William Harbottle		196	29.0
Total formal votes		676	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		676	55.5

1861 by-election

1861 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Saturday 15 December [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry O'Brien (elected)		unopposed

1859 by-election

1859 Yass Plains colonial by-election

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Friday 24 June [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Laidlaw (elected)		unopposed

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