Electoral results for the district of The Hastings (New South Wales)

The Hastings, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1880.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Election	Member		Party
1859		Henry Flett	None
1860
1864		William Forster	None
1869		Horace Dean	None
1870 by
1870 re-count		Robert Smith	None
1872
1874
1877

Election results

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Saturday 3 November [7]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Smith (re-elected)		1,018	94.2
Thomas Amos		63	5.8
Total formal votes		1,081	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,093	34.5

1874

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Thursday 24 December 1874 [8]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Smith (re-elected)		unopposed

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Thursday 29 February [9]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Smith (re-elected)		907	47.0
Eugene Fattorini		586	30.4
James Garvan		435	22.6
Total formal votes		1,928	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,928	59.9

1870 re-count

1870 The Hastings election re-count
Friday 23 September [10][11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Smith (elected)		N/A

The Elections and Qualifications Committee conducted a re-count of the 1870 The Hastings by-election and declared that Horace Dean was not qualified to be elected. No by-election was conducted, instead the committee declared that Robert Smith had been elected.[10]

1870 by-election

1870 The Hastings by-election
Monday 4 July [12][13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Horace Dean (elected)		953	68.4
Robert Smith		441	31.6
Total formal votes		1,394	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,394	47.5

The Committee of Elections and Qualifications held that the election of Horace Dean was void because he held an office of profit under the crown at the time of his nomination.[12]

1869

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Thursday 23 December 1869 [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Horace Dean (elected)		474	32.0
Robert Smith		444	30.0
Henry Flett		307	20.7
William Forster		253	17.1
Geoffrey Eagar		2	0.1
Ebenezer Vickery		1	0.1
Total formal votes		1,481	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,491	56.4

1864

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Saturday 24 December 1864 [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Forster (elected)		530	47.4
Henry Flett (defeated)		328	29.3
Horace Dean		260	23.3
Total formal votes		1,118	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		1,133	62.4

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Friday 21 December [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Flett (re-elected)		278	53.8
Frederick Panton		191	36.9
Robert Ross		40	7.7
Isaac Aaron		8	1.6
Total formal votes		517	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		536	32.5

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings
Friday 1 July [17]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Flett (elected)		321	40.8
J Andrews		278	35.4
Frederick Panton		186	23.7
James McCarthy		1	0.1
Total formal votes		786	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		786	56.3

References

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2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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4. "Mr William Forster (1818–1882)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
5. "Mr Horace Dean (1814-1887)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
6. "Mr Robert Burdett Smith CMG (1837-1895)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
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10. "The Hastings election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 September 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 21 September 2020 – via Trove.
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12. Green, Antony. "1870 The Hastings by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
13. The petition on 11 August stated a higher result, Dean 1,226 votes, Smith 482 votes."The Hastings petition". New South Wales Government Gazette (197). 16 August 1870. p. 1755. Retrieved 21 September 2020 – via Trove.
14. Green, Antony. "1869-70 Hastings". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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