Electoral district of Kahibah
Former state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia
Kahibah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member districts from part of the electoral district of Newcastle and named after the Newcastle suburb of Kahibah. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation. It was recreated in 1927 and abolished and partly replaced by Waratah in 1930. It was recreated in 1950 and abolished again in 1971 and replaced by Charlestown.[1][2][3]
Members for Kahibah
First incarnation (1894–1920) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Alfred Edden | Labour | 1894–1917 | |
Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
Second incarnation (1927–1930) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
Hugh Connell | Labor | 1927–1930 | |
Third incarnation (1950–1971) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
Joshua Arthur | Labor | 1950–1953 | |
Tom Armstrong | Independent Labor | 1953–1957 | |
Jack Stewart | Labor | 1957–1971 |
Election results
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Kahibah.[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Jack Stewart | 12,949 | 58.5 | -5.1 | |
Liberal | Roy Hammond | 7,166 | 32.4 | -4.1 | |
Democratic Labor | William Crane | 1,055 | 4.8 | +4.8 | |
Communist | Darrell Dawson | 691 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
Independent | William Fricker | 259 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Total formal votes | 22,120 | 97.6 | |||
Informal votes | 540 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 22,660 | 95.2 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jack Stewart | 13,843 | 62.6 | -1.0 | |
Liberal | Roy Hammond | 8,277 | 37.4 | +1.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -1.0 |
References
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1968 Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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