Electoral results for the district of Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1913.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1894		Jacob Garrard	Free Trade
1895
1898		Broughton O'Conor	National Federal
1901			Independent
1904			Liberal Reform
1907		John Hunt	Liberal Reform
1910

Election results

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: Sherbrooke [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	John Hunt	4,407	67.4
	Labour	Andrew Thompson	2,134	32.6
Total formal votes			6,541	98.0
Informal votes			133	2.0
Turnout			6,674	74.5
	Liberal Reform hold

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: Sherbrooke [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	John Hunt	3,733	73.4
	Labour	Benjamin Prior	476	9.4
	Independent	Robert Lalor	440	8.7
	Independent	Eugene Rudder	417	8.2
	Independent	Donald Campbell	23	0.5
Total formal votes			5,089	98.0
Informal votes			102	2.0
Turnout			5,191	64.1
	Liberal Reform hold

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: Sherbrooke [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Broughton O'Conor	2,915	62.5
	Ind Progressive	Thomas Smith	1,194	25.6
	Independent Labour	Robert Lalor	549	11.8
	Independent	John McCook	7	0.2
Total formal votes			4,665	99.0
Informal votes			45	1.0
Turnout			4,710	60.4
	Member changed to Liberal Reform from Independent

Sherbrooke was expanded to include part of The Hawkesbury and parts of the abolished seats of The Nepean and Ryde and Willoughby. Broughton O'Conor (Liberal Reform) was the independent member for Sherbrooke while Thomas Smith (Progressive) was the member for The Nepean. The member for The Hawkesbury was Brinsley Hall (Progressive) who successfully contested that seat, the member for Willoughby was Charles Wade (Liberal Reform) who successfully contested the replacement seat of Gordon while the member for Ryde was Edward Terry (Independent) who did not contest the election.

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Sherbrooke [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Broughton O'Conor	823	56.4	+6.9
	Liberal Reform	John Roughley	505	34.6	-13.2
	Independent Liberal	Adam Pringle	132	9.0
Total formal votes			1,460	99.2	-0.1
Informal votes			12	0.8	+0.1
Turnout			1,472	66.0	+4.4
	Member changed to Independent from Progressive

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Sherbrooke [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Broughton O'Conor	603	49.5
	Free Trade	Jacob Garrard	582	47.8
	Independent	James Purser	33	2.7
Total formal votes			1,218	99.3
Informal votes			9	0.7
Turnout			1,227	61.7
	National Federal gain from Free Trade

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Sherbrooke [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Jacob Garrard	585	54.5
	Independent	Broughton O'Conor	333	31.0
	Ind. Protectionist	George Stimson	95	8.9
	Ind. Protectionist	Thomas Pye	45	4.2
	Ind. Free Trade	Edward Wakely	15	1.4
Total formal votes			1,073	98.4
Informal votes			18	1.7
Turnout			1,091	60.8
	Free Trade hold

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Sherbrooke [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Jacob Garrard	601	45.0
	Ind. Free Trade	Samuel Bursill	231	17.3
	Ind. Free Trade	John Fitzpatrick	151	11.3
	Labour	James Williamson	95	7.1
	Protectionist	Ambrose Hallen	78	5.8
	Ind. Free Trade	William Bladon	63	4.7
	Ind. Free Trade	Edward Wakely	61	4.6
	Ind. Protectionist	James Tamsett	45	3.4
	Ind. Free Trade	Henry Pigott	8	0.6
	Ind. Free Trade	Donald Campbell	3	0.2
Total formal votes			1,336	97.3
Informal votes			37	2.7
Turnout			1,373	76.2
	Free Trade win		(new seat)

References

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