ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF BARRIER, NWEW SOUTH WALES ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, White Cliffs, Wilcannia -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 10,290 Votes cast: 5,493 53.4 Informal votes: 174 03.2 Formal votes: 5,319 96.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Long 670 12.6 Josiah THOMAS Lab 4,649 87.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,319 37.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Long was "comparatively unknown, and it is difficult to view his nomination seriously." (Daily Telegraph, 23 March 1901) 2. Thomas was also endorsed by the Free Trade party. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901 Born: 1863, Cornwall, England. Career: No formal education. Migrated as child. Miner, Broken Hill. President, Amalgamated Miners Association. Colonial politics: NSW MLA for Alma 1894-1901. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, White Cliffs, Wilcannia -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Labour over Independent 37.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,277 +32.0 Votes cast: 7,759 40.3 -13.0 Informal votes: 175 02.3 -00.9 Formal votes: 7,584 97.7 +00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Dunstan 1,367 18.0 Josiah THOMAS * Lab 6,217 82.0 -05.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,584 32.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Menindie, White Cliffs, Wilcannia -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 two-party majority: Labour over Independent 32.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 25,164 +30.5 Votes cast: 7,832 31.1 -09.2 Informal votes: 311 04.2 +01.9 Formal votes: 7,521 95.8 -01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Marshall AS 1,919 25.5 Hon Josiah THOMAS * Lab 5,602 74.5 -07.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,521 24.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 Postmaster-General 13 November 1908 to 2 June 1909 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Menindie, White Cliffs, Wilcannia -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Labour over Anti-Socialist 24.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 21,120 -16.1 Votes cast: 11,175 52.9 +21.8 Informal votes: 166 01.5 -02.7 Formal votes: 11,009 98.5 +02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Shepherd Lib 1,562 14.2 -11.3 Hon Josiah THOMAS * ALP 9,447 85.8 +11.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,009 35.8 11.3 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910 Postmaster-General 29 April 1910 to 14 October 1911 Minister for External Affairs from 14 October 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 31 MAY 1913 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Deniliquin, Moama, Wentworth -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1910 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 35.8 Effect of 1912 redistribution: 16.6 shift to Liberal New notional majority: ALP over Liberal 19.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 32,688 Votes cast: 20,334 62.2 Informal votes: 750 03.7 Formal votes: 19,584 96.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Harrison Lib 4,537 23.2 -07.6 Hon Josiah THOMAS * ALP 15,047 76.8 +07.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 19,584 26.8 07.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913 Minister for External Affairs to 24 June 1913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 SEPTEMBER 1914 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Deniliquin, Moama, Wentworth -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1913 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 26.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 36,717 +12.3 Votes cast: 20,655 56.3 -05.9 Informal votes: 498 02.4 -01.3 Formal votes: 20,157 97.6 +01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ferguson Lib 4,094 20.3 -02.9 Hon Josiah THOMAS * ALP 16,063 79.7 +02.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 20,157 29.7 02.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ferguson was NSW MLA for Sturt 1894-1904. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Thomas (1863-1933): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas left the ALP in November 1916 and joined the Nationalist Party in February 1917. He contested the Senate in 1917. Later career: See Senate 1917. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 MAY 1917 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Deniliquin, Moama, Wentworth -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 29.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,110 -09.8 Votes cast: 19,950 60.3 +05.0 Informal votes: 502 02.5 +00.1 Formal votes: 19,448 97.5 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael CONSIDINE + ALP 9,710 49.9 -29.8 Brian Doe Nat 1,004 05.2 -15.1 Arthur Lawrence 8,734 44.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 19,448 02.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Doe was NSW MLA for Murray 1917-20, Sturt 1920-27. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Patrick Considine (1885-1959): Elected 1917 Born: 1885, Ireland. Career: Migrated as child. Tramworker. To Broken Hill, greaser. Secretary Miners Union, President 1915-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 DECEMBER 1919 ==================================================================== Western NSW: Broken Hill, Deniliquin, Moama, Wentworth -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 majority: ALP over Independent 02.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 26,825 -19.0 Votes cast: 17,634 65.7 +05.4 Informal votes: 637 03.6 +01.1 Formal votes: 16,997 96.4 -01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael CONSIDINE * ALP 8,786 51.7 +01.8 Arthur Lawrence 4,735 27.9 Charles McAllister Nat 3,476 20.5 +15.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,997 03.8 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Considine resigned from the Labor Party in November 1920 after a dispute with the NSW state executive. 2. Lawrence was a "Soldiers' candidate." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Patrick Considine (1885-1959): Elected 1917, 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barrier was abolished at the 1922 redistribution. Considine contested Darling in 1922. --------------------------------------------------------------------