Adam Carr's Election Archive
Commonwealth of Australia
Electoral Divisions of the House of Representatives
Division of Calare, New South Wales
The Division of Calare was created in 1906. Calare (correctly pronounced Kalaari) is the Indigenous name for the Lachlan River, which was in the Division in 1906.
REDISTRIBUTIONS
1906: Cowra, Forbes, Grenfell, Parkes
1913: Cowra, Orange, Parkes, Wellington
1922: Cowra, Forbes, Orange, Parkes
1934: Cowra, Forbes, Orange, Parkes
1949: Cowra, Forbes, Orange, Parkes
1955: Cowra, Forbes, Orange, Parkes
1969: Forbes, Mudgee, Orange, Parkes
1977: Bathurst, Lithgow, Orange, Parkes
1984: Bathurst, Lithgow, Mudgee, Orange
1993: Bathurst, Blayney, Lithgow, Orange
2001: Bathurst, Blayney, Lithgow, Orange
2007: Bourke, Cowra, Narromine, Orange
2010: Bathurst, Lithgow, Orange, Parkes
2016: Bathurst, Lithgow, Mudgee, Orange
2025: Bathurst, Lithgow, Mudgee, Orange
TWO-PARTY MAJORITIES
1906: Labor 00.7
1910: Labor 03.6
1913: Liberal 02.1
1914: Liberal 01.2
1917: Nationalist 01.8
1919: Labor 02.3
1922: Nationalist 05.3
1925: Nationalist 09.8
1928: Nationalist 10.7
1929: Labor 01.6
1931: Country Party 10.1
1934: Country Party 04.0
1937: Country Party 02.2
1940: Labor 03.4
1943: Labor 09.9
1946: Liberal 01.9
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1949: Liberal 07.0
1951: Liberal 06.2
1954: Liberal 06.3
1955: Liberal 11.2
1958: Liberal 08.1
1960b: Country Party 09.1
1961: Country Party 06.9
1963: Country Party 11.1
1966: Country Party 18.7
1969: Country Party 07.5
1972: Country Party 05.7
1974: Country Party 07.8
1975: Nationals 09.3
1977: Nationals 05.2
1980: Nationals 01.5
1983: Labor 02.9
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1984: Labor 05.6
1987: Labor 03.3
1990: Labor 03.5
1993: Labor 04.1
1996: Independent 13.3 *
1998: Independent 22.3 **
2001: Independent 25.0 *
2004: Independent 21.2 ***
2007: Nationals 12.0
2010: Nationals 03.5
2013: Nationals 16.0
2016: Nationals 11.8
2019: Nationals 13.3
2022: Nationals 09.7
2025: Independent 06.8 *
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* Majority over Nationals
** Majority over Labor
*** Majority over Liberal
ENROLMENTS
ELECTION RESULTS 1906-2025
Click here to see full results for Calare at every election since 1906.
MEMBERS FOR CALARE
Hon Thomas Brown (Lab, ALP) 1901-13
Henry Pigott (Lib, Nat) 1913-19
Thomas Lavelle (ALP) 1919-22
Hon Sir Neville Howse (Nat) 1922-29
George Gibbons (ALP) 1929-31
Hon Harold Thorby (CP) 1931-40
John Breen (ALP) 1940-46
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John Howse (Lib) 1946-60
John England (CP) 1960b-75
Sandy Mackenzie (NCP, NPA) 1975-83
Hon David Simmons (ALP) 1983-96
Peter Andren (Ind) 1996-2007
Hon John Cobb (Nat) 2007-16
Hon Andrew Gee (Nat, Ind) 2016-
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| Hon Thomas Brown (Lab, ALP) 1906-13 |
Henry Pigott (Lib, Nat) 1913-19 |
Thomas Lavelle (ALP) 1919-22 |
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| Hon Sir Neville Howse (Nat) 1922-29 |
George Gibbons (ALP) 1929-31 |
Hon Harold Thorby (CP) 1931-40 |
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| John Breen (ALP) 1940-46 |
John Howse (Lib) 1946-60 |
John England (CP) 1960-75 |
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| Sandy Mackenzie (NCP, NPA) 1975-83 |
Hon David Simmons (ALP) 1983-96 |
Peter Andren (Ind) 1996-2007 |
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| Hon John Cobb (Nat) 2007-16 |
Hon Andrew Gee (Nat, Ind) 2016- |
CURRENT BOUNDARIES
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EARLIER BOUNDARIES
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