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Electoral results for the district of Warringah

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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

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Elections in the 1900s

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1901

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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

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1898

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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

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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

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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

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  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

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  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.