Electoral district of Newtown-St Peters

Newtown-St Peters was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Newtown and named after the inner Sydney suburb of St Peters. Along with Newtown-Erskine, it was partly replaced by a recreated Newtown in 1904.^[1][2][3]

Members for Newtown-St Peters

Member		Party	Term
	William Rigg	Ind. Free Trade	1894–1895
		Free Trade	1895–1901
	James Fallick	Independent Liberal	1901–1904

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Newtown-St Peters

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Newtown-St Peters.[edit]

1901 New South Wales state election: Newtown-St Peters ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	James Fallick	790	35.0
	Labour	George Clark	770	34.2
	Liberal Reform	William Rigg	662	29.4	−31.9
	Independent	David Hayes	16	0.7
	Ind. Progressive	James Mitchell	13	0.6	+0.2
	Independent	Walter Arnold	4	0.2
Total formal votes			2,255	99.1	+0.2
Informal votes			20	0.9	−0.2
Turnout			2,275	62.7	−0.5
	Independent Liberal gain from Liberal Reform