Electoral results for the district of Newtown-Camperdown

Newtown-Camperdown, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1894 and abolished in 1904.^[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party
1894		Joseph Abbott	Free Trade
1895		Francis Cotton	Free Trade
1898
1901		James Smith	Ind. Progressive

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

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

1901 New South Wales state election: Newtown-Camperdown ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Progressive	James Smith	759	35.1	+10.2
	Liberal Reform	Thomas Probert	562	26.0	−1.3
	Independent Liberal	William Clegg	382	17.7
	Labour	Samuel Heaton	270	12.5	+7.2
	Independent Liberal	Richard Bellemey	165	7.6
	Socialist Labor	Andrew Thomson	24	1.1
Total formal votes			2,162	99.0	+0.5
Informal votes			22	1.0	−0.5
Turnout			2,184	62.6	+0.8
	Ind. Progressive gain from Liberal Reform

The sitting member was Francis Cotton (Liberal Reform) who did not contest the election.

Elections in the 1890s

1898

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

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown-Camperdown ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Francis Cotton	471	27.2
	Independent Federalist	James Smith	431	24.9
	Independent Federalist	George Spark	374	21.6
	National Federal	James Abigail	350	20.2
	Labour	Edward Riley	91	5.3
	Independent Federalist	Thomas Evans	9	0.5
	Independent	Mikael Dunn	3	0.2
Total formal votes			1,729	98.5
Informal votes			27	1.5
Turnout			1,756	61.8
	Free Trade hold

1895

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

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown-Camperdown ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Francis Cotton	530	38.4
	Protectionist	James Smith	450	32.6
	Labour	Edward Riley	214	15.5
	Ind. Free Trade	Joseph Mitchell	188	13.6
Total formal votes			1,382	98.8
Informal votes			17	1.2
Turnout			1,399	61.7
	Free Trade hold

1894

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

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Newtown-Camperdown ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Joseph Abbott	852	46.7
	Labour	Benjamin Morgan	554	30.4
	Protectionist	James Smith	355	19.5
	Ind. Free Trade	John Cotton	63	3.5
Total formal votes			1,824	98.3
Informal votes			32	1.7
Turnout			1,856	81.7
	Free Trade win		(new seat)

Newtown was split into four, Newtown-Camperdown, Newtown-Erskine, Newtown-St Peters and Marrickville. Joseph Abbott (Free Trade) was a sitting members for Newtown, while the other three sitting members contested Newtown-St Peters and Newtown-Erskine.

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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.
3. "Mr William Thomas Dick (1865-1932)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
4. Green, Antony. "1901 Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "1898 Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
6. Green, Antony. "1895 Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
7. Green, Antony. "1894 Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.