Electoral results for the district of Wammerawa

Wammerawa, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1920 and abolished in 1927.^[1][2][3]

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1920		Joseph Clark	Labor		Bill Dunn	Labor		William Ashford	Nationalist
1922		Harold Thorby	Progressive						Independent
1922 re-count								Joseph Clark	Labor
1925

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1925

1925 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			6,717
	Labor	Bill Dunn (elected 1)	8,680	32.3	+6.2
	Labor	Joseph Clark (elected 2)	5,078	18.9	+0.6
	Labor	John Ritchie	1,352	5.0	+5.0
	Progressive	Harold Thorby (elected 3)	4,664	17.4	+6.5
	Progressive	Alfred Yeo	788	2.9	+2.9
	Progressive	Samuel Armstrong	721	2.7	+2.7
	Nationalist	Harold Blackett	3,367	12.5	+12.5
	Nationalist	John Macdonald	1,566	5.8	+0.8
	Nationalist	Henry Buttsworth	650	2.4	+2.4
Total formal votes			26,866	97.0	+0.7
Informal votes			823	3.0	−0.7
Turnout			27,689	72.9	+1.6
Party total votes
	Labor		15,110	56.2	+8.7
	Progressive		6,173	23.0	−6.2
	Nationalist		5,583	20.8	+8.6

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1925 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[edit]

1922 re-count

The returning officer declared that William Ashford (Independent) had been elected 3rd at the 1922 election.^[5] Joseph Clark lodged a petition that alleged the returning officer had made an error in the way he distributed surplus votes after the election of Harold Thorby.^[6] The Elections and Qualifications Committee agreed and after re-counting the votes declared that Clark had been elected.^[7][8]

1922

1922 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			6,571
	Labor	Bill Dunn (elected 1)	6,854	26.1	−13.6
	Labor	Joseph Clark (defeated)	4,810	18.3	+8.8
	Labor	William Webster	821	3.1	−1.1
	Progressive	Harold Thorby (elected 2)	2,855	10.9	+0.4
	Progressive	Gordon Wilkins	2,522	9.6	+9.6
	Progressive	George Oram	930	3.5	+3.5
	Progressive	James Berryman	726	2.8	+2.8
	Progressive	Edward Scully	366	1.4	+1.4
	Progressive	Edward Kater	266	1.0	+1.0
	Nationalist	Percy Shortland	1,386	5.3	+5.3
	Nationalist	John Macdonald	1,314	5.0	+5.0
	Nationalist	John Wark	516	2.0	+2.0
	Independent	William Ashford (elected 3)	2,891	11.0	+11.0
	Independent	Arthur Heany	23	0.1	+0.1
Total formal votes			26,280	96.3	+4.2
Informal votes			1,001	3.7	−4.2
Turnout			27,281	71.3	+8.0
Party total votes
	Labor		12,485	47.5	−5.9
	Progressive		7,665	29.2	+8.3
	Nationalist		3,216	12.2	−12.0
	Independent	William Ashford	2,891	11.0	+11.0
	Independent	Arthur Heany	23	0.1	+0.1

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1922 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[edit]

1920

1920 New South Wales state election: Wammerawa ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			5,610
	Labor	Bill Dunn (elected 1)	8,912	39.7
	Labor	Joseph Clark (elected 3)	2,138	9.5
	Labor	William Webster	931	4.2
	Nationalist	William Ashford (elected 2)	5,166	23.0
	Nationalist	Sidney Skuthorpe	269	1.2
	Progressive	Harold Thorby	2,355	10.5
	Progressive	Neil McLennan	1,206	5.4
	Progressive	William Harris	1,137	5.1
	Independent	Sydney Webb	178	0.8
	Independent	William Kelk	109	0.5
	Independent	Edwin Utley	37	0.2
Total formal votes			22,438	92.1
Informal votes			1,920	7.9
Turnout			24,358	63.3
Party total votes
	Labor		11,981	53.4
	Nationalist		5,435	24.2
	Progressive		4,698	20.9
	Independent	Sydney Webb	178	0.8
	Independent	William Kelk	109	0.5
	Independent	Edwin Utley	37	0.2

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1920 New South Wales state election § Wammerawa.[edit]