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Electoral results for the district of Pingelly

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Western Australian district election results

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Pingelly in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Pingelly

Member Party Term
  Nat Harper Liberal 1911–1914
  Henry Hickmott Country 1914–1923
  Country (ECP) 1923–1924
  Henry Brown Country 1924–1933
  Harrie Seward Country 1933–1950

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 2,108 70.2 +2.4
Independent Percy Munday 896 29.8 −2.4
Total formal votes 3,004 98.9 +0.2
Informal votes 34 1.1 −0.2
Turnout 3,038 77.6 −2.6
Country hold Swing +2.4
1943 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,970 67.8 −32.2
Independent Percy Munday 935 32.2 +32.2
Total formal votes 2,905 98.7
Informal votes 39 1.3
Turnout 2,944 80.2
Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1930s

1939 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward unopposed
Country hold Swing
1936 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,743 65.7 +20.9
Country Cecil Elsegood 909 34.3 +34.3
Total formal votes 2,652 99.4 +1.0
Informal votes 15 0.6 −1.0
Turnout 2,667 70.7 −14.7
Country hold Swing N/A
1933 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harrie Seward 1,510 44.8 +6.3
Independent Cecil Elsegood 1,115 33.1 +33.1
Labor Keith Growden 745 22.1 −0.7
Total formal votes 3,370 98.4 +0.7
Informal votes 54 1.6 −0.7
Turnout 3,424 85.4 +11.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Harrie Seward 1,738 51.6 +3.3
Independent Cecil Elsegood 1,632 48.4 +48.4
Country hold Swing N/A
1930 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Brown 1,142 38.7
Country Harrie Seward 1,136 38.5
Labor William Carmody 671 22.8
Total formal votes 2,949 97.7
Informal votes 69 2.3
Turnout 3,018 73.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Henry Brown 1,526 51.7
Country Harrie Seward 1,423 48.3
Country hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Brown 1,084 61.4 +44.9
Country Joseph Watson 402 22.8 +6.5
Nationalist Joseph Keays 279 15.8 −13.2
Total formal votes 1,765 98.3 +0.6
Informal votes 31 1.7 −0.6
Turnout 1,796 64.4 +7.6
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1924 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 425 29.0 −40.0
Executive Country Henry Brown 242 16.5 +16.5
Executive Country Joseph Watson 239 16.3 +16.3
Executive Country Francis Wake 194 13.2 +13.2
Executive Country Edwin Corby 157 10.7 +10.7
Executive Country William Vinicombe 134 9.1 +9.1
Executive Country Johnson Kennard 76 5.2 +5.2
Total formal votes 1,467 97.7 −0.5
Informal votes 34 2.3 +0.5
Turnout 1,501 56.8 +4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Executive Country Henry Brown 846 57.7
Country Henry Hickmott 621 42.3
Executive Country gain from Country Swing N/A
1921 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 816 69.0 −35.7
Country Harrie Seward 207 17.5 +17.5
Country Harry Gayfer 159 13.4 +13.4
Total formal votes 1,182 98.2 +1.8
Informal votes 22 1.8 −1.8
Turnout 1,204 52.7 −9.1
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Richard Johnson 488 34.3 +34.3
National Country Henry Hickmott 484 33.3 –24.2
National Country Francis Wake 253 17.8 +17.8
National Country William Martin 157 11.0 +11.0
National Country Thomas James 52 3.7 +3.7
Total formal votes 1,424 96.4 –1.5
Informal votes 53 3.6 +1.5
Turnout 1,477 61.8 +4.6
Two-party-preferred result
National Country Henry Hickmott 825 57.9 +0.4
Nationalist Richard Johnson 599 42.1 +42.1
National Country hold Swing +0.4
1914 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Henry Hickmott 889 57.5 +57.5
Liberal Nat Harper 657 42.5 −22.7
Total formal votes 1,546 97.9 −1.2
Informal votes 33 2.1 +1.2
Turnout 1,579 57.2 −15.8
Country gain from Liberal Swing N/A
1911 Western Australian state election: Pingelly
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist Nat Harper 1,034 65.2
Labor Matthew Bodey 552 34.8
Total formal votes 1,586 99.1
Informal votes 15 0.9
Turnout 1,601 73.0
Ministerialist hold Swing

References

  1. Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, : Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
Electoral results for the former districts of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
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