Electoral results for the district of Broken Hill

Broken Hill, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales has had two incarnations, from 1894 to 1913 and from 1968 to 1999.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1894		John Cann	Labour
1895
1898
1901
1904
1907
Election	Member		Party
1968		Lew Johnstone	Labor
1971
1973
1976
1978
1981		Bill Beckroge	Labor
1984
1988
1991
1995

Election results

1995

1995 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	16,292	52.8	-0.4
	National	Mark Kersten	13,236	42.9	+14.1
	Independent	Gordon Dansie	1,324	4.3	+4.3
Total formal votes			30,852	94.2	+3.8
Informal votes			1,889	5.8	-3.8
Turnout			32,741	90.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	16,677	54.7	-5.3
	National	Mark Kersten	13,804	45.3	+5.3
	Labor hold		Swing	-5.3

1991

1991 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	16,600	53.2	+9.1
	National	Peter Laird	8,996	28.8	-14.1
	Liberal	David Atkins	2,909	9.3	-3.1
	Democrats	Keith Ridley	1,121	3.6	+3.1
	Country Residents	Mary Casey-Marshall	1,021	3.3	+3.3
	Independent	George Diamantes	558	1.8	+1.8
Total formal votes			31,205	90.5	-6.2
Informal votes			3,291	9.5	+6.2
Turnout			34,496	92.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	17,479	60.1	+12.1
	National	Peter Laird	11,628	39.9	-12.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+12.1

1988

1988 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	13,111	47.4	-18.0
	National	Mark Olson	10,442	37.7	+17.7
	Liberal	David Atkins	4,123	14.9	+0.8
Total formal votes			27,676	96.4	-1.4
Informal votes			1,021	3.6	+1.4
Turnout			28,697	92.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	14,022	52.0	-14.9
	National	Mark Olson	12,947	48.0	+14.9
	Labor hold		Swing	-14.9

1984

1984 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	17,440	68.7	-0.3
	Liberal	Geoffrey Anderson	4,019	15.8	+15.8
	National	Neville Crisp	3,913	15.4	-15.6
Total formal votes			25,372	97.8	+0.9
Informal votes			577	2.2	-0.9
Turnout			25,949	89.7	+0.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bill Beckroge		70.1	+1.1
	Liberal	Geoffrey Anderson		29.9	+29.9
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.1

1981

1981 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bill Beckroge	17,041	69.0
	National Country	George Gleeson	7,647	31.0
Total formal votes			24,688	96.9
Informal votes			779	3.1
Turnout			25,467	88.8
	Labor hold		Swing	-3.0

1978

1978 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	14,519	75.9	-24.1
	National Country	John Betterman	3,005	15.7	+15.7
	Liberal	Peter Swan	1,609	8.4	+8.4
Total formal votes			19,133	97.9
Informal votes			417	2.1
Turnout			19,550	91.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	14,680	77.1	-22.9
	National Country	John Betterman	4,353	22.9	+22.9
	Labor hold		Swing	-22.9

1976

1976 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1973

1973 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1971

1971 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1968

1968 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lew Johnstone	14,255	70.8
	Country	Edward Brown	5,872	29.2
Total formal votes			20,127	98.2
Informal votes			363	1.8
Turnout			20,490	91.1
	Labor win		(new seat)

Broken Hill was a new seat, and consisted of parts of the abolished districts of Cobar and Sturt and was the first time since 1913 where all of the town of Broken Hill was in the one district. Lew Johnstone (Labor) was the member for Cobar. The member for Sturt, William Wattison (Labor), did not contest the election.

District recreated

1913 - 1968

District abolished

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	Unopposed
	Labour hold

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	unopposed
	Labour hold

Broken Hill absorbed part of the abolished seat of Alma. John Cann (Labour) was the member for Broken Hill. William Williams (Independent Labour), the member for Alma, unsuccessfully contested Sturt as an independent.

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Broken Hill [16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	1,281	93.5	+7.4
	Independent Liberal	Charles Counsell	89	6.5
Total formal votes			1,370	98.8	+2.8
Informal votes			17	1.2	-2.8
Turnout			1,387	40.4	-5.3
	Labour hold

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Broken Hill [17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	1,125	86.1
	National Federal	Alexander Hendry	182	13.9
Total formal votes			1,307	96.0
Informal votes			54	4.0
Turnout			1,361	45.7
	Labour hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Broken Hill [18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	unopposed
	Labour hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Broken Hill [19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cann	1,123	72.6
	Protectionist	Wyman Brown	423	27.4
Total formal votes			1,546	98.9
Informal votes			17	1.1
Turnout			1,563	86.2
	Labour win		(new seat)

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