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Electoral results for the district of Newcastle (South Australia)

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South Australian district election results

This is a list of election results for the electoral district of Newcastle in South Australian elections.

Members for Newcastle

First incarnation (1884–1902)
Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Thomas Burgoyne 1884–1902   Patrick Coglin 1884–1887
  Thomas Playford 1887–1890
  Joseph Hancock 1890–1893
  Richard Foster 1893–1902
Second incarnation (1915–1938)
Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Andrew Kirkpatrick Labor 1915–1918   Thomas Butterfield Labor 1915–1917
  Edward Twopeny Liberal Union 1917–1918
  William Harvey Labor 1918–1931   Thomas Butterfield Labor 1918–1931
  Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933   Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933
  James Beerworth Labor 1933–1938   Lindsay Riches Labor 1933–1938
Single-member (1938–1956)
Member Party Term
  George Jenkins Liberal and Country 1938–1956

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1953 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins 2,275 63.7 −7.6
Labor Gerald Travers 1,298 36.3 +7.6
Total formal votes 3,573 97.4 −1.5
Informal votes 96 2.6 +1.5
Turnout 3,669 92.0 +5.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing −7.6
1950 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins 2,601 71.3 −28.7
Labor Leonard Pilton 1,048 28.7 +28.7
Total formal votes 3,649 98.9
Informal votes 40 1.1
Turnout 3,689 86.1
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1947 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1944 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins 2,229 60.0 −40.0
Labor Jock Pick 1,486 40.0 +40.0
Total formal votes 3,715 97.8
Informal votes 84 2.2
Turnout 3,799 83.3
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A
1941 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins unopposed
Liberal and Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

1938 South Australian state election: Newcastle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country George Jenkins 2,060 67.5
Labor James Marner 993 32.5
Total formal votes 3,053 97.8
Informal votes 68 2.2
Turnout 3,121 64.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing

References

  1. History of South Australian elections, 1857-2006 - by Dean Jaensch - ISBN 978-0-9750486-3-4
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