Electoral district of Wickham (New South Wales)

Wickham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales and named after the Newcastle suburb of Wickham. It was created in 1894, when multi-member districts were abolished,^[1] and the three member district of Newcastle was divided between Wickham, Newcastle East, Newcastle West, Kahibah and Waratah.^[2][3] The first member was John Fegan (Free Trade) who was one of the members for Newcastle.^[4] It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and combined with Newcastle.^[5][6][7] The sitting member William Grahame (Nationalist) unsuccessfully stood as an independent at the 1920 election for Newcastle.^[8]

Members for Wickham

Member		Party	Term
	John Fegan	Free Trade	1894–1899
		Protectionist	1899–1901
		Progressive	1901–1907
	William Grahame	Labor	1907–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1920

Election results

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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Wickham.[edit]

1917 New South Wales state election: Wickham ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	William Grahame	4,982	53.9	+22.1
	Labor	Christopher Pattinson	4,260	46.1	−22.1
Total formal votes			9,242	99.2	+0.9
Informal votes			77	0.8	−0.9
Turnout			9,319	63.1	−10.0
	Member changed to Nationalist from Labor

The sitting member William Grahame was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription.^[10]