ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF CANOBOLAS, NEW SOUTH WALES ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Central West NSW: Forbes, Molong, Orange, Parkes -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 11,025 Votes cast: 7,717 70.0 Informal votes: 112 01.5 Formal votes: 7,605 98.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas BROWN Lab 4,120 54.2 Thomas Dalveen 54 00.7 William Melville 153 02.0 Hon Bernhard Wise Prot 3,278 43.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,605 05.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Brown was also endorsed by the AFTLA. 2. Dalveen and Melville were independent protectionist candidates. 3. Wise was NSW MLA for South Sydney 1887-94, Sydney-Flinders 1894- 95, Ashfield 1898-1900, NSW MLC 1900-08. He was a prominent colonial Free Trade politician, but he had broken with Reid and was endorsed by Barton. The AFTLA retaliated by endorsing Brown. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Brown (1861-1934): Elected 1901 Born: 6 October 1861, Forbes, NSW. Career: Primary education. Farmer and unionist. Colonial politics: NSW MLA for Condoblin 1894-1901. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Central West NSW: Forbes, Molong, Orange, Parkes -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 two-party majority: Labour over Protectionist 05.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 20,256 +83.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas BROWN * Lab Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Brown (1861-1934): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Canobolas was abolished at the 1906 redistribution. Brown contested Calare in 1906. --------------------------------------------------------------------