Electoral results for the district of The Darling
Election results for The Darling, New South Wales, Australia
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The Darling, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1904 and abolished in 1913.[1][2][3]
| election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | John Meehan | Labour | |
| 1907 | |||
| 1910 | |||
Election results
1910
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Meehan | 1,866 | 78.4 | ||
| Liberal Reform | William Shepherd | 515 | 21.6 | ||
| Total formal votes | 2,381 | 97.3 | |||
| Informal votes | 66 | 2.70 | |||
| Turnout | 2,447 | 48.4 | |||
| Labour hold | |||||
1907
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Meehan | 2,370 | 67.0 | ||
| Liberal Reform | William Davis | 1,170 | 33.1 | ||
| Total formal votes | 4,583 | 97.5 | |||
| Informal votes | 120 | 2.6 | |||
| Turnout | 4,703 | 61.2 | |||
| Labour hold | |||||
1904
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Meehan | 1,999 | 50.6 | ||
| Progressive | William Willis | 1,692 | 42.8 | ||
| Independent Labour | Richard Sleath | 259 | 6.6 | ||
| Total formal votes | 3,950 | 98.9 | |||
| Informal votes | 44 | 1.1 | |||
| Turnout | 3,994 | 55.5 | |||
| Labour win | (new seat) | ||||
The Darling was a new seat comprising Bourke and parts of The Barwon and Wilcannia electorates.[7] The member for Bourke was William Davis (Progressive) who did not contest the election. The member for The Barwon was William Willis (Progressive) while the member for Wilcannia was Richard Sleath who had initially been elected as a Labour candidate at the 1894 election,[8] but had lost his Labour endorsement prior to the 1901 election which he won as an Independent Labour candidate.[9]