ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF ILLAWARRA, NEW SOUTH WALES ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== South Coast NSW: Bulli, Nowra, Picton, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 13,559 Votes cast: 10,353 76.4 Informal votes: 183 01.8 Formal votes: 10,170 98.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- George FULLER FT 5,788 56.9 Alexander Hay Prot 3,693 36.3 Andrew Lysaght 689 06.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,170 10.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Hay, see New England 1919. 2. Lysaght was NSW MLA for Illawarra 1885-87, 1891. He was an independent protectionist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Warburton Fuller (1861-1940): Elected 1901 Born: 22 January 1861, Kiama, NSW. Career: Educated Sydney Grammar and University of Sydney. Barrister, Crown Prosecutor. Colonial politics: NSW MLA for Kiama 1889-94. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== South Coast NSW: Bulli, Nowra, Picton, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Free Trade over Protectionist 10.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 27,419 +102.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George FULLER * FT Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Warburton Fuller (1861-1940): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== NSW South Coast: Bulli, Nowra, Picton, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: none (Free Trade unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 26,388 -03.8 Votes cast: 15,740 59.6 Informal votes: 486 03.1 Formal votes: 15,254 96.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon George FULLER * AS 9,726 63.8 George Holt Lab 5,528 36.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 15,254 13.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Warburton Fuller (1861-1940): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 Minister for Home Affairs from 2 June 1909 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== NSW South Coast: Bulli, Nowra, Picton, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Anti-Socialist over Labour 13.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 27,640 +04.7 Votes cast: 18,990 68.7 +09.1 Informal votes: 202 01.1 -02.0 Formal votes: 18,788 98.9 +02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Burns ALP 9,025 48.0 +11.8 Hon George FULLER * Lib 9,763 52.0 -11.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18,788 02.0 11.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Burns, see Illawarra 1913. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Warburton Fuller (1861-1940): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910 Minister for Home Affairs to 29 April 1910 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 31 MAY 1913 ==================================================================== South of Sydney: Bulli, Hurstville, Kogarah, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1910 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 02.0 Effect of 1912 redistribution: 04.9 shift to ALP New notional majority: ALP over Liberal 02.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,091 +41.4 Votes cast: 30,392 77.7 +09.0 Informal votes: 794 02.6 +01.3 Formal votes: 29,598 97.4 -01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George BURNS + ALP 14,852 50.2 -02.7 Hon George Fuller * Lib 14,746 49.8 +02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,598 00.2 02.7 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the redistribution, Labor is shown as the defending party. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Warburton Fuller (1861-1940): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910. Defeated 1913 Later career: NSW MLA for Wollondilly 1915-28. Colonial Secretary 1916-20, Leader of the Opposition 1920-21, Premier 1921, Leader of the Opposition 1921-22, Premier 1922-25. NSW Agent-General London 1928-31. Knighted 1919. Died 22 July 1940 > George Mason Burns (1869-1932): Elected 1913 Born: 19 April 1869, Mogo, NSW. Career: Primary education. Miner, NSW and Tasmania. Secretary, Amalagamted Miners Association, Tasmania. To NSW 1910. State politics: Tas MHA for Queenstown 1903-06. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 SEPTEMBER 1914 ==================================================================== South of Sydney: Bulli, Hurstville, Kogarah, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1913 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 44,064 +12.7 Votes cast: 33,362 75.7 -02.0 Informal votes: 382 01.1 -01.3 Formal votes: 32,980 98.9 +01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George BURNS * ALP 17,884 54.2 +04.0 Hon George Fuller Lib 15,096 45.8 -04.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,980 04.2 04.0 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuller was member for Illawarra 1901-13. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Mason Burns (1869-1932): Elected 1913, 1914 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 MAY 1917 ==================================================================== South of Sydney: Bulli, Hurstville, Kogarah, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 04.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 48,012 +09.0 Votes cast: 36,346 75.7 00.0 Informal votes: 802 02.2 +01.1 Formal votes: 35,544 97.8 -01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Burns * ALP 16,243 45.7 -08.5 Hector LAMOND Nat 19,301 54.3 +08.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,544 04.3 08.5 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Mason Burns (1869-1932): Elected 1913, 1914. Defeated 1917 Died 15 August 1932 > Hector Lamond (1865-1947): Elected 1917 Born: 31 October 1865, Shoalhaven, NSW. Career: Educated public schools. Printer and journalist. Managing editor Australian Worker 1897-1917. Left ALP 1916. Son-in-law of Hon William Spence MP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 DECEMBER 1919 ==================================================================== South of Sydney: Bulli, Hurstville, Kogarah, Wollongong -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 04.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 46,745 -02.6 Votes cast: 33,540 71.8 -03.9 Informal votes: 3,080 09.2 +07.0 Formal votes: 30,460 90.8 -07.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Burns 2,075 06.8 Hector LAMOND * Nat 15,419 50.6 -03.7 Thomas Marshall 446 01.5 Bertie Sheiles ALP 12,520 41.1 -04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,460 03.1 e 01.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Burns was Labor member for Illawarra 1913-17. He was a Socialist Party candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hector Lamond (1865-1947): Elected 1917, 1919 Assistant Minister for Repatriation from 12 December 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Illawarra was abolished at the 1922 redistribution. Lamond contested Barton in 1922. --------------------------------------------------------------------