Electoral results for the district of The Darling

The Darling, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1904 and abolished in 1913.[1][2][3]

election Member Party
1904   John Meehan Labour
1907
1910

Election results

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1910

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1910 New South Wales state election: The Darling[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Meehan 1,866 78.4
Liberal Reform William Shepherd 515 21.6
Total formal votes 2,381 97.3
Informal votes 66 2.70
Turnout 2,447 48.4
Labour hold  

1907

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1907 New South Wales state election: The Darling[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Meehan 2,370 67.0
Liberal Reform William Davis 1,170 33.1
Total formal votes 4,583 97.5
Informal votes 120 2.6
Turnout 4,703 61.2
Labour hold  

1904

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1904 New South Wales state election: The Darling[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Meehan 1,999 50.6
Progressive William Willis 1,692 42.8
Independent Labour Richard Sleath 259 6.6
Total formal votes 3,950 98.9
Informal votes 44 1.1
Turnout 3,994 55.5
Labour win (new seat)
The Darling was a new seat comprising Bourke and parts of The Barwon and Wilcannia electorates.[7] The member for Bourke was William Davis (Progressive) who did not contest the election. The member for The Barwon was William Willis (Progressive) while the member for Wilcannia was Richard Sleath who had initially been elected as a Labour candidate at the 1894 election,[8] but had lost his Labour endorsement prior to the 1901 election which he won as an Independent Labour candidate.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Mr John Charles Meehan (1864–1930)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  4. ^ Green, Antony. "1910 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  5. ^ Green, Antony. "1907 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  6. ^ Green, Antony. "1904 Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  7. ^ "The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.
  8. ^ Green, Antony. "1894 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  9. ^ Green, Antony. "1901 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.