Electoral results for the district of Warringah

Warringah, 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		Dugald Thomson	Free Trade
1895
1898			National Federal
1901		Ellison Quirk	Independent

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ellison Quirk	739	34.7
	Independent Liberal	James Alderson	604	28.4
	Liberal Reform	James Conroy	490	23.0	−22.0
	Independent Liberal	Thomas Loxton	296	13.9
Total formal votes			2,129	100.0	+0.5
Informal votes			0	0.0	−0.5
Turnout			2,129	62.6	−3.3
	Independent gain from Progressive

The sitting member was Dugald Thomson (Progressive),^[a] who did not contest the election as he had been elected in March 1901 as a Free Trade member for the federal seat of North Sydney.

Elections in the 1890s

1898

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

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Warringah ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Dugald Thomson	805	55.0
	Free Trade	Tom Rolin	660	45.1
Total formal votes			1,465	99.5
Informal votes			7	0.5
Turnout			1,472	65.9
	Member changed to National Federal from Free Trade

1895

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

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Warringah ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Dugald Thomson	629	55.2
	Ind. Free Trade	Henry Moss	510	44.8
Total formal votes			1,139	99.6
Informal votes			5	0.4
Turnout			1,144	66.2
	Free Trade hold

1894

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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Dugald Thomson	579	40.5
	Ind. Free Trade	Henry Moss	532	37.2
	Ind. Free Trade	Leonard Dodds	210	14.7
	Labour	Jonathan Lepherd	108	7.6
Total formal votes			1,429	98.9
Informal votes			16	1.1
Turnout			1,445	82.5
	Free Trade win		(new seat)

Notes

1. Dugald Thomson had been elected as member of the Progressive party in 1898, then known as the National Federal party, described as a free trade federationist.^[5]

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Warringah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
4. Green, Antony. "1901 Warringah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
5. "Mr Dugald Thomson". The Australian Star. 16 July 1898. p. 9. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via Trove.
6. Green, Antony. "1898 Warringah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
7. Green, Antony. "1895 Warringah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
8. Green, Antony. "1894 Warringah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 April 2020.