Electoral results for the district of Grenfell

Grenfell, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1880 and abolished in 1904.^[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1880		Robert Vaughn	None
1882
1885
1887			Protectionist
1889		George Greene	Free Trade
1891		Robert Vaughn	Labor
1894		George Greene	Free Trade
1894 re-count		Michael Loughnane	Labor
1895		George Greene	Free Trade
1898		William Holman	Labor
1901

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Grenfell.[edit]

1901 New South Wales state election: Grenfell ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Holman	1,299	51.7	−3.9
	Liberal Reform	Arthur Grimm	1,213	48.3
Total formal votes			2,512	100.0	+0.4
Informal votes			0	0.0	−0.4
Turnout			2,512	68.9	11.3
	Labour hold

Elections in the 1890s

1898

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Holman	1,115	55.6
	National Federal	Andrew Kelly	892	44.4
Total formal votes			2,007	99.6
Informal votes			8	0.4
Turnout			2,015	57.5
	Labour gain from Ind. Free Trade

1895

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Free Trade	George Greene	664	48.8
	Labour	William Holman	551	40.5
	Protectionist	Robert Vaughn	146	10.7
Total formal votes			1,361	99.4
Informal votes			8	0.6
Turnout			1,369	68.0
	Ind. Free Trade gain from Labour

1894 re-count

This section is an excerpt from 1894 Grenfell colonial election re-count § Result.[edit]

1894 Grenfell election re-count
Thursday 25 October ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Loughnane	525	36.3	+0.3
	Free Trade	George Greene	516	35.7	−0.4
	Protectionist	Robert Vaughn	330	22.8	+0.2
	Independent	John Williams	75	5.2	−0.1
Total formal votes			1,446	97.0	−0.7
Informal votes			45[a]	3.0	+0.7
Turnout			1,491	71.0	'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000001C−QINU`"'
	Labour gain from Free Trade

The Elections and Qualifications Committee conducted a re-count of the 1894 Grenfell election and declared that George Greene (Free Trade) had not been elected the member for Grenfell. No by-election was conducted, instead the committee declared that Michael Loughnane (Labour) had been elected.^[7]

1894

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	George Greene	526	36.1
	Labour	Michael Loughnane	524	36.0
	Protectionist	Robert Vaughn	329	22.6
	Independent	John Williams	77	5.3
Total formal votes			1,456	97.7
Informal votes			35	2.4
Turnout			1,491	71.0
	Free Trade gain from Labour

The sitting member, Robert Vaughn had been elected as a Labour member at the 1891 election but stood as a Protectionist candidate for this election.

The result was overturned by the Elections and Qualifications Committee which conducted a re-count in October 1894.^[8]

1891

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1891 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Saturday 27 June ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Vaughn (elected)	593	47.1
	Free Trade	George Greene (defeated)	379	30.1
	Free Trade	Thomas Bembrick	227	18.0
	Protectionist	James Gibson	59	4.7
Total formal votes			1,258	98.5
Informal votes			19	1.5
Turnout			1,277	62.2
	Labour gain from Free Trade

Elections in the 1880s

1889

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1889 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1889 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Monday 4 February ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	George Greene (elected)	475	52.3
	Protectionist	Robert Vaughn	433	47.7
Total formal votes			908	98.8
Informal votes			11	1.2
Turnout			919	52.0
	Free Trade gain from Protectionist

1887

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1887 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1887 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Wednesday 16 February ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Robert Vaughn (re-elected)	431	53.3
	Free Trade	A L Park	378	46.7
Total formal votes			809	98.2
Informal votes			15	1.8
Turnout			824	51.6

1885

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1885 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1885 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Thursday 22 October ^[12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Vaughn (re-elected)		387	59.3
E Whelan		266	40.7
Total formal votes		653	99.4
Informal votes		4	0.6
Turnout		714	49.0

1882

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1882 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1882 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Friday 8 December ^[13]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Vaughn (re-elected)		404	58.1
E Whelan		291	41.9
Total formal votes		695	97.9
Informal votes		15	2.1
Turnout		706	45.6

1880

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1880 New South Wales colonial election § Grenfell.[edit]

1880 New South Wales colonial election: Grenfell
Monday 29 November ^[14]

Candidate		Votes	%
Robert Vaughn (elected)		421	49.2
George Greene		294	34.4
J Donkin		141	16.5
Total formal votes		856	98.5
Informal votes		13	1.5
Turnout		869	53.8
		(new seat)

Grenfell partly replaced the abolished district of The Lachlan.

Notes

1. Calculated on the assumption that the total number of votes did not change.
2. Change is compared to the previously declared count for the election.

References

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