Electoral results for the district of Hastings and Macleay

1917 New South Wales state election: Hastings and Macleay ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Henry Morton	4,528	64.4	+64.4
	Labor	Hercules Rowe	2,506	35.6	+35.6
Total formal votes			7,034	99.1	+0.7
Informal votes			63	0.9	−0.7
Turnout			7,097	61.4	−17.0
	Member changed to Nationalist from Independent

1913 New South Wales state election: Hastings and Macleay ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Henry Morton	4,515	52.9
	Farmers and Settlers	Robert Davidson [a]	4,025	47.1
Total formal votes			8,540	98.4
Informal votes			135	1.6
Turnout			8,675	78.4
	Independent hold

1910 New South Wales state election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Robert Davidson	2,661	45.1	−4.3
	Independent	Henry Morton	2,117	35.9
	Labour	Hugh Bridson	1,120	19.0
Total formal votes			5,898	97.8	+1.0
Informal votes			130	2.2	−1.0
Turnout			6,028	73.4	+6.8

1910 New South Wales state election: Hastings and Macleay - Second Round^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Henry Morton	3,467	54.9
	Liberal Reform	Robert Davidson (defeated)	2,849	45.1	−4.3
Total formal votes			6,316	99.1	+2.3
Informal votes			57	0.9	−2.3
Turnout			6,373	77.6	+11.0
	Independent gain from Liberal Reform

1907 New South Wales state election: Hastings and Macleay ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Robert Davidson	2,334	49.4
	Independent	Edward Noonan	2,002	42.4
	Independent	William Newton	387	8.2
Total formal votes			4,723	96.8
Informal votes			156	3.2
Turnout			4,879	66.6
	Liberal Reform hold

1904 New South Wales state election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Robert Davidson	2,303	57.4
	Progressive	Percival Basche	1,709	42.6
Total formal votes			4,012	98.7
Informal votes			52	1.3
Turnout			4,064	62.9
	Liberal Reform hold

The Hastings and The Macleay was expanded to include part of the abolished seat of The Manning. The member for The Hastings and The Macleay was Robert Davidson (Liberal Reform). The member for The Manning was John Thomson (Progressive) who unsuccessfully contested Gloucester.

1901 New South Wales state election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	Robert Davidson	578	28.9
	Progressive	Percival Basche	420	21.0
	Independent	Edward Noonan	403	20.2
	Independent	Otho Dangar	376	18.8
	Independent	Hugh Bridson	220	11.0
Total formal votes			1,997	99.3
Informal votes			14	0.7
Turnout			2,011	74.6
	Liberal Reform gain from Progressive

The sitting member was Francis Clarke (Progressive) who did not contest the election as he had been elected in March 1901 to the federal seat of Cowper.

1900 Hastings and Macleay by-election
Thursday 1 March ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Francis Clarke	616	47.3
	Independent	Hugh Bridson	413	31.7
	Independent	Percival Basche	273	21.0
Total formal votes			1,302	98.7
Informal votes			17	1.3
Turnout			1,319	53.9
	Protectionist hold

Edmund Barton (Protectionist) resigned to travel to London with Alfred Deakin and Charles Kingston to explain the federation bill to the British Government.^[10]

1898 Hastings and Macleay by-election
Friday 23 September ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Edmund Barton (elected)	960	59.3
	Free Trade	Sydney Smith	658	40.7
Total formal votes			1,618	99.7
Informal votes			4	0.3
Turnout			1,622	66.8
	National Federal hold

Francis Clarke (National Federal) resigned to allow Edmund Barton to re-enter parliament.^[11]

1898 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Federal	Francis Clarke	unopposed
	National Federal hold

1895 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Francis Clarke	791	51.8
	Free Trade	Walter Vivian	736	48.2
Total formal votes			1,527	99.1
Informal votes			14	0.9
Turnout			1,541	69.9
	Protectionist hold

1894 New South Wales colonial election: The Hastings and The Macleay ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Francis Clarke	668	36.7
	Free Trade	Walter Vivian	556	30.6
	Ind. Protectionist	Otho Dangar	494	27.2
	Ind. Protectionist	Enoch Rudder	61	3.4
	Labour	Henry Stuart	40	2.2
Total formal votes			1,819	98.6
Informal votes			26	1.4
Turnout			1,845	82.4
	Protectionist win		(new seat)