Electoral results for the district of Yilgarn-Coolgardie

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Yilgarn-Coolgardie in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Yilgarn-Coolgardie edit

Members Party Term
  Edwin Corboy Labor 1930–1933
  George Lambert Labor 1933–1941
  Lionel Kelly Independent Country 1941–1943
  Independent 1943–1946
  Labor 1946–1950

Election results edit

Elections in the 1940s edit

1947 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lionel Kelly unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1943 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Lionel Kelly 1,269 59.9 +20.5
Labor Francis Bennett 849 40.1 +5.1
Total formal votes 2,118 97.2 -1.0
Informal votes 60 2.8 +1.0
Turnout 2,178 81.5 +13.6
Independent hold Swing +6.3
1941 Yilgarn-Coolgardie state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Country Lionel Kelly 1,015 39.4 +17.7
Labor Cornelius Kenneally 902 35.0 -7.5
Independent Labor James Dinan 660 25.6 +25.6
Total formal votes 2,577 98.2 +1.7
Informal votes 47 1.8 -1.7
Turnout 2,624 67.9 -20.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Country Lionel Kelly 1,380 53.6 N/A
Labor Cornelius Kenneally 1,197 46.4 - 8.8
Independent Country gain from Labor Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s edit

1939 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 1,422 42.5 -11.5
Independent Labor Lionel Kelly 728 21.8 +21.8
Country Arthur Richards 648 19.4 +19.4
Independent Daniel O'Leary 549 16.4 +16.4
Total formal votes 3,347 96.5 -2.2
Informal votes 123 3.5 +2.2
Turnout 3,470 88.5 +30.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor George Lambert 1,849 55.2 +1.2
Country Arthur Richards 1,498 44.8 +44.8
Labor hold Swing +1.2
1936 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 1,199 54.0 -7.9
Independent Country Max Dynes 1,021 46.0 +46.0
Total formal votes 2,220 98.7 +1.1
Informal votes 30 1.3 -1.1
Turnout 2,250 58.3 -29.4
Labor hold Swing -7.9
1933 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 1,742 61.9 +31.3
Independent Country Jim Keightly 1,072 38.1 +38.1
Total formal votes 2,814 97.6 -1.4
Informal votes 69 2.4 +1.4
Turnout 2,883 87.7 +8.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
1930 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn-Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country William Price 848 38.5
Labor Edwin Corboy 678 30.8
Labor George Lambert 674 30.6
Total formal votes 2,200 99.0
Informal votes 22 1.0
Turnout 2,222 79.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Edwin Corboy 1,262 57.4
Country William Price 938 42.6
Labor hold Swing

References edit

  1. ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.