Electoral results for the district of Sydney-Flinders

Sydney-Flinders, 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		Bernhard Wise	Free Trade
1895		Arthur Nelson	Protectionist
1898
1901			Progressive

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

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

1901 New South Wales state election: Sydney-Flinders ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Arthur Nelson	601	34.9	−13.2
	Liberal Reform	John Waine	598	34.8	−3.2
	Ind. Progressive	Ernest Gardner	191	11.1	+2.1
	Independent Liberal	Hezekiah Evers	124	7.2
	Ind. Progressive	James Lawrence	124	7.2
	Labour	Frederick Sommerhoff	82	4.8	-0.0
Total formal votes			1,720	99.2	+0.2
Informal votes			14	0.8	−0.2
Turnout			1,734	75.8	+23.4
	Progressive hold

Elections in the 1890s

1898

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

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Sydney-Flinders ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Arthur Nelson	543	48.2
	Free Trade	John Dobbie	428	38.0
	Independent Federalist	Ernest Gardner	102	9.1
	Labour	Robert Cropley	54	4.8
	Independent	William Gocher	0	0.0
Total formal votes			1,127	99.0
Informal votes			12	1.1
Turnout			1,139	52.4
	National Federal hold

1895

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

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Sydney-Flinders ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Arthur Nelson	333	32.1
	Independent	Bernhard Wise (defeated)	296	28.6
	Free Trade	John Waine	278	26.8
	Labour	John Buckley	118	11.4
	Ind. Free Trade	Eden George	11	1.1
Total formal votes			1,036	98.7
Informal votes			14	1.3
Turnout			1,050	58.4
	Protectionist gain from Free Trade

1894

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

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Sydney-Flinders ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise	656	45.8
	Labour	John Dobbie	379	26.5
	Protectionist	William Kippax	286	20.0
	Ind. Free Trade	Joseph Olliffe	77	5.4
	Ind. Protectionist	Leighton Kesteven	34	2.4
Total formal votes			1,432	98.7
Informal votes			19	1.3
Turnout			1,451	79.0
	Free Trade win		(new seat)

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
4. Green, Antony. "1901 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "1898 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
6. Green, Antony. "1895 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
7. Green, Antony. "1894 Sydney-Flinders". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 April 2020.