Electoral results for the district of West Maitland

West Maitland, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1904.[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1859		Elias Weekes	None
1860
1864		Benjamin Lee	None
1869
1872
1874 by		Lewis Levy	None
1874		Henry Cohen	None
1877
1880		James Fulford	None
1882		Henry Cohen	None
1885		Richard Thompson	None
1887			Free Trade
1891		John Gillies	Free Trade
1894			Ind. Free Trade
1895			Free Trade
1898
1901			Independent

Election results

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: West Maitland [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Gillies	903	78.8	+14.0
	Independent	Richard Proctor	243	21.2
Total formal votes			1,146	99.7	+0.4
Informal votes			4	0.4	-0.4
Turnout			1,150	45.5	-25.1
	Member changed to Independent from Liberal Reform

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	John Gillies	1,141	64.8
	National Federal	Walter Edmunds	620	35.2
Total formal votes			1,761	99.3
Informal votes			13	0.7
Turnout			1,774	70.6
	Free Trade hold

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	John Gillies	890	80.5
	Ind. Protectionist	Richard Proctor	215	19.5
Total formal votes			1,105	99.1
Informal votes			10	0.9
Turnout			1,115	47.3
	Member changed to Free Trade from Ind. Free Trade

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Free Trade	John Gillies	1,247	63.9
	Free Trade	Robert Scobie	618	31.6
	Independent Labour	Richard Proctor	81	4.2
	Ind. Protectionist	Arthur Payne	7	0.4
Total formal votes			1,953	98.4
Informal votes			32	1.6
Turnout			1,985	83.2
	Member changed to Ind. Free Trade from Free Trade

1891

1891 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 17 June [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	John Gillies (elected)	670	52.7
	Free Trade	Richard Thompson (defeated)	459	36.1
	Protectionist	Hugh Lusk	143	11.2
Total formal votes			1,272	97.5
Informal votes			33	2.5
Turnout			1,305	80.2
	Free Trade hold

1889

1889 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Saturday 9 February [9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Richard Thompson (elected)	754	69.2
	Protectionist	Thomas Hungerford	335	30.8
Total formal votes			1,089	98.1
Informal votes			21	1.9
Turnout			1,110	59.6
	Free Trade hold

1887

1887 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 9 February [10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Richard Thompson (re-elected)	unopposed

1885

1885 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Friday 16 October [11]

Candidate		Votes	%
Richard Thompson (elected)		632	54.5
Walter Edmunds		527	45.5
Total formal votes		1,159	97.0
Informal votes		36	3.0
Turnout		1,195	72.6

1882

1882 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Thursday 7 December [12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Cohen (elected)		564	59.8
Richard Thompson		380	40.3
Total formal votes		944	99.1
Informal votes		9	0.9
Turnout		953	78.5

1880

1880 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Thursday 25 November [13]

Candidate		Votes	%
James Fullford		612	58.6
Henry Cohen (defeated)		432	41.4
Total formal votes		1,044	98.1
Informal votes		20	1.9
Turnout		1,064	87.0

1877

1877 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 31 October [14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Cohen (re-elected)		397	55.6
James Pritchard		304	42.6
Thomas Hungerford		7	1.0
Thomas Jones		6	0.8
Total formal votes		714	98.2
Informal votes		13	1.8
Turnout		727	67.2

1874

1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Monday 21 December 1874 [15]

Candidate		Votes	%
Henry Cohen (elected)		343	49.2
Joseph Eckford		196	28.1
Archibald Hamilton		152	21.8
William Farthing		5	0.7
William Brooks		1	0.1
Total formal votes		697	98.0
Informal votes		14	2.0
Turnout		711	67.9

1874 by-election

1874 West Maitland colonial by-election

1872

1872 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 5 March [16]

Candidate		Votes	%
Benjamin Lee (re-elected)		504	58.3
Joseph Eckford		267	30.9
Archibald Hamilton		93	10.8
Total formal votes		864	98.2
Informal votes		16	1.8
Turnout		880	77.0

1869

1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Monday 20 December 1869 [17]

Candidate		Votes	%
Benjamin Lee (re-elected)		488	58.6
Andrew Liddell		345	41.4
Total formal votes		833	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		833	75.2

1864

1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 13 December 1864 [18]

Candidate		Votes	%
Benjamin Lee (elected)		444	50.9
Peter Green		328	37.6
Andrew Liddell		100	11.5
George Rochester		1	0.1
Total formal votes		873	97.9
Informal votes		19	2.1
Turnout		891	71.5

1860

1860 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 18 December [19]

Candidate		Votes	%
Elias Weekes (re-elected)		473	90.1
William Cheater		52	9.9
Total formal votes		525	100.0
Informal votes		0	0.0
Turnout		525	37.3

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 21 June [20]

Candidate		Votes	%
Elias Weekes (re-elected)		unopposed

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