Electoral district of Hamilton (New South Wales)

For other electoral districts, see Electoral district of Hamilton.

Hamilton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in 1927 with the abolition of proportional representation from part of the 5 member district of Newcastle and named after the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton. It was abolished in 1971 and replaced by Charlestown.^[1][2][3]

Members for Hamilton

Member		Party	Term
	David Murray [4]	Labor	1927–1928
	James Smith [5]	Labor	1928–1930
	Hugh Connell [6]	Labor	1930–1934
	William Brennan [7]	Labor	1934–1935
	Joshua Arthur [8]	Labor	1935–1950
	George Campbell [9]	Labor	1950–1959
	Robert McCartney [10]	Labor	1959–1971

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Hamilton (New South Wales)

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1968 New South Wales state election § Hamilton.[edit]

1968 New South Wales state election: Hamilton ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Robert McCartney	12,458	60.1	−4.2
	Liberal	James Reeves	8,286	39.9	+4.2
Total formal votes			20,744	97.9
Informal votes			434	2.1
Turnout			21,178	94.3
	Labor hold		Swing	−4.2