Electoral results for the district of Gwydir

Gwydir, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1859 until 1894 and from 1904 until 1920.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1859		Richard Jenkins	None
1860		Francis Rusden	None
1865		Thomas Dangar	None
1865 by
1869
1872
1874
1877
1880		William Campbell	None
1882
1885
1886 by		Thomas Hassall	None
1887			Protectionist
1889
1891
Election	Member		Party
1904		George Jones	Labour
1907
1910
1913		John Crane	Farmers and Settlers
1917			Nationalist

Election results

1917

1917 New South Wales state election: Gwydir [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	John Crane	3,542	59.2	+4.4
	Labor	William Scully	2,440	40.8	-4.4
Total formal votes			5,982	99.4	+2.0
Informal votes			38	0.6	-2.0
Turnout			6,020	61.0	-2.2
	Nationalist hold		Swing	+4.4

1913

1913 New South Wales state election: Gwydir [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Farmers and Settlers	John Crane [lower-alpha 1]	3,737	54.8
	Labor	George Jones	3,081	45.2
Total formal votes			6,818	97.4
Informal votes			182	2.6
Turnout			7,000	63.2
	Farmers and Settlers gain from Labor

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: The Gwydir [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Jones	2,634	63.00
	Liberal Reform	Edward Spear	1,547	37.00
Total formal votes			4,181	96.80
Informal votes			138	3.20
Turnout			4,319	46.60
	Labour hold

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: The Gwydir [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Jones	2,302	60.6
	Independent Liberal	Thomas Hogan	1,495	39.4
Total formal votes			3,797	95.7
Informal votes			169	4.3
Turnout			3,966	54.8
	Labour hold

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: The Gwydir [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Jones	1,970	50.3
	Liberal Reform	Percy Stirton	1,945	49.7
Total formal votes			3,915	99.1
Informal votes			34	0.9
Turnout			3,949	60.2
	Labour win		(new seat)

The Gwydir was a new seat and comprised the abolished seat of Moree and part of Inverell. The member for Moree was Percy Stirton (Liberal Reform) and George Jones (Labour) was the member for Inverell.

District recreated

1894 - 1904

District abolished

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Friday 3 July [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Hassall (elected)	841	56.4
	Labour	Leonard Court	649	43.6
Total formal votes			1,490	97.1
Informal votes			45	2.9
Turnout			1,535	52.3
	Protectionist hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Monday 28 January [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Hassall (elected)	unopposed
	Protectionist hold

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Thursday 10 February [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Hassall (re-elected)	unopposed

1886 by-election

1886 Gwydir by-election
Thursday 10 June [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Hassall (elected)		482	58.1
Thomas Mayne		211	25.5
James Wearne		136	16.4
Total formal votes		829	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		829	38.1

William Campbell resigned.[12]

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Friday 23 October [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Campbell (re-elected)		376	54.3
Thomas Dangar (defeated)		317	45.7
Total formal votes		693	96.3
Informal votes		27	3.8
Turnout		720	36.7

Thomas Dangar was the sitting member for The Namoi.

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Wednesday 13 December [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Campbell (re-elected)		405	68.4
Thomas Hassall		187	31.6
Total formal votes		592	98.2
Informal votes		11	1.8
Turnout		603	35.8

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Tuesday 30 November [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Campbell (elected)		unopposed

The sitting member Thomas Dangar successfully contested The Namoi.

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Monday 5 November [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (re-elected)		unopposed

1874-75

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Saturday 26 December 1874 [17]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (re-elected)		540	58.2
Captain W H Mosely		388	41.8
Total formal votes		928	98.5
Informal votes		14	1.5
Turnout		942	37.3

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Thursday 21 March [18]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (re-elected)		213	29.9
Adolph Goldman		163	22.9
John Macansh		161	22.6
Alexander Bowman		103	14.5
David Jones		73	10.2
Total formal votes		713	97.3
Informal votes		20	2.7
Turnout		733	38.5

1869-70

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Friday 24 December 1869 [19]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (re-elected)		369	83.1
Edward Sharp		75	16.9
Total formal votes		444	97.4
Informal votes		12	2.6
Turnout		456	29.5

1865 by-election

1865 Gwydir by-election
Thursday 29 June and Thursday 20 July [20][21]</ref>

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (re-elected)		246	59.7
John Single		165	40.0
Thomas Dangar Sr [lower-alpha 3]		1	0.2
Total formal votes		412	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		412	36.3

The election of Thomas Dangar was declared void by the Committee on Elections and Qualifications because he had a contract to carry mail, which was an office of profit under the Crown.[21]

1865

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Tuesday 24 January 1865 [23]

Candidate		Votes	%
Thomas Dangar (elected)		145	52.2
John Single		92	33.1
Francis Rusden (defeated)		41	14.8
Total formal votes		278	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		278	29.5

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Wednesday 19 December [24]

Candidate		Votes	%
Francis Rusden (elected)		38	59.4
Richard Jenkins (defeated)		26	40.6
Total formal votes		64	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		64	10.6

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: The Gwydir
Thursday 7 July [25]

Candidate		Votes	%
Richard Jenkins (re-elected)		unopposed

Notes

1. Also endorsed by Liberal Reform.
2. The New South Wales Election Results database is incomplete as it is based on the report of The Maitland Mercury of 11 July 1865 which did not include returns from 5 polling places, Bingera, Gideon's Inn, Mugundie, Wellbedunga and Yetman.<ref name='1865 Gwydir colonial by-election Mercury poll'>"The Gwydir election". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 11 July 1865. p. 2. Retrieved 22 September 2020 – via Trove.
3. The proposer intended to refer to Thomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar but was not aware he had more than one name and the nomination was recorded as being of his step father Thomas Dangar Sr, the former member for the Upper Hunter.[22]

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