Electoral results for the district of West Maitland

West Maitland, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1904.[1][2][3]

Election Member Party
1859   Elias Weekes None
1860
1864   Benjamin Lee None
1869
1872
1874 by   Lewis Levy None
1874   Henry Cohen None
1877
1880   James Fulford None
1882   Henry Cohen None
1885   Richard Thompson None
1887   Free Trade
1891   John Gillies Free Trade
1894   Ind. Free Trade
1895   Free Trade
1898
1901   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: West Maitland[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Gillies 903 78.8 +14.0
Independent Richard Proctor 243 21.2
Total formal votes 1,146 99.7 +0.4
Informal votes 4 0.4 −0.4
Turnout 1,150 45.5 −25.1
Member changed to Independent from Liberal Reform  

Elections in the 1890s

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1898

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1898 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade John Gillies 1,141 64.8
National Federal Walter Edmunds 620 35.2
Total formal votes 1,761 99.3
Informal votes 13 0.7
Turnout 1,774 70.6
Free Trade hold  

1895

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1895 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade John Gillies 890 80.5
Ind. Protectionist Richard Proctor 215 19.5
Total formal votes 1,105 99.1
Informal votes 10 0.9
Turnout 1,115 47.3
Member changed to Free Trade from Ind. Free Trade  

1894

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1894 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Free Trade John Gillies 1,247 63.9
Free Trade Robert Scobie 618 31.6
Independent Labour Richard Proctor 81 4.2
Ind. Protectionist Arthur Payne 7 0.4
Total formal votes 1,953 98.4
Informal votes 32 1.6
Turnout 1,985 83.2
Member changed to Ind. Free Trade from Free Trade  

1891

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1891 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 17 June [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade John Gillies (elected) 670 52.7
Free Trade Richard Thompson (defeated) 459 36.1
Protectionist Hugh Lusk 143 11.2
Total formal votes 1,272 97.5
Informal votes 33 2.5
Turnout 1,305 80.2
Free Trade hold  

Elections in the 1880s

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1889

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1889 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Saturday 9 February [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Richard Thompson (elected) 754 69.2
Protectionist Thomas Hungerford 335 30.8
Total formal votes 1,089 98.1
Informal votes 21 1.9
Turnout 1,110 59.6
Free Trade hold  

1887

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1887 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 9 February [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Free Trade Richard Thompson (re-elected) unopposed

1885

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1885 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Friday 16 October [11]
Candidate Votes %
Richard Thompson (elected) 632 54.5
Walter Edmunds 527 45.5
Total formal votes 1,159 97.0
Informal votes 36 3.0
Turnout 1,195 72.6

1882

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1882 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Thursday 7 December [12]
Candidate Votes %
Henry Cohen (elected) 564 59.8
Richard Thompson 380 40.3
Total formal votes 944 99.1
Informal votes 9 0.9
Turnout 953 78.5

1880

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1880 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Thursday 25 November [13]
Candidate Votes %
James Fulford (elected) 612 58.6
Henry Cohen (defeated) 432 41.4
Total formal votes 1,044 98.1
Informal votes 20 1.9
Turnout 1,064 87.0

Elections in the 1870s

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1877

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1877 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Wednesday 31 October [14]
Candidate Votes %
Henry Cohen (re-elected) 397 55.6
James Pritchard 304 42.6
Thomas Hungerford 7 1.0
Thomas Jones 6 0.8
Total formal votes 714 98.2
Informal votes 13 1.8
Turnout 727 67.2

1874

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1874–75 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Monday 21 December 1874 [15]
Candidate Votes %
Henry Cohen (elected) 343 49.2
Joseph Eckford 196 28.1
Archibald Hamilton 152 21.8
William Farthing 5 0.7
William Brooks 1 0.1
Total formal votes 697 98.0
Informal votes 14 2.0
Turnout 711 67.9

1874 by-election

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1874 West Maitland by-election
Tuesday 4 August [16]
Candidate Votes %
Lewis Levy (elected) 647 80.1
Archibald Hamilton 129 19.9
Total formal votes 647 97.9
Informal votes 14 2.1
Turnout 661 63.1
Benjamin Lee resigned.[16]

1872

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1872 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 5 March [17]
Candidate Votes %
Benjamin Lee (re-elected) 504 58.3
Joseph Eckford 267 30.9
Archibald Hamilton 93 10.8
Total formal votes 864 98.2
Informal votes 16 1.8
Turnout 880 77.0

Elections in the 1860s

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1869

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1869–70 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Monday 20 December 1869 [18]
Candidate Votes %
Benjamin Lee (re-elected) 488 58.6
Andrew Liddell 345 41.4
Total formal votes 833 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 833 75.2

1864

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1864–65 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 13 December 1864 [19]
Candidate Votes %
Benjamin Lee (elected) 444 50.9
Peter Green 328 37.6
Andrew Liddell 100 11.5
George Rochester 1 0.1
Total formal votes 873 97.9
Informal votes 19 2.1
Turnout 891 71.5

1860

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1860 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 18 December [20]
Candidate Votes %
Elias Weekes (re-elected) 473 90.1
William Cheater 52 9.9
Total formal votes 525 100.0
Informal votes 0 0.0
Turnout 525 37.3

Elections in the 1850s

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1859

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1859 New South Wales colonial election: West Maitland
Tuesday 21 June [21]
Candidate Votes %
Elias Weekes (re-elected) unopposed

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