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

Members for Coolgardie

MembersPartyTerm
  Alf Morgans Ministerial 1897–1904
  Henry Ellis Labor 1904–1905
  Independent Labor 1905
  William Eddy Ministerial 1905–1908
  Charles McDowall Labor 1908–1916
  George Lambert Labor 1916–1930

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 477 69.9 -30.1
Nationalist William Vale 205 30.1 +30.1
Total formal votes 682 99.3
Informal votes 5 0.7
Turnout 687 72.4
Labor hold SwingN/A
1924 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1921 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 565 60.8 +6.9
National Labor Peter Wedd 222 23.9 -9.0
Independent William Faahan 143 15.4 +15.4
Total formal votes 930 97.5 -0.5
Informal votes 24 2.5 +0.5
Turnout 954 66.3 -5.6
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 744 53.9 –46.1
National Labor Albert Pascoe 455 33.0 +33.0
National Labor Samuel Scotson 182 13.2 +13.2
Total formal votes 1,381 98.0 n/a
Informal votes 28 2.0 n/a
Turnout 1,409 71.9 n/a
Labor hold Swing–46.1
  • The previous Labor candidate, Charles McDowall, had been elected unopposed in 1914.
1916 Coolgardie state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Lambert 1,164 71.9 N/A
Independent Donald MacPherson 340 21.0 +21.0
Independent John Boileau 115 7.1 +7.1
Total formal votes 1,619 N/A N/A
Informal votes N/A N/A N/A
Turnout N/A N/A N/A
Labor hold SwingN/A
1914 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles McDowall unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1911 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles McDowall 1,348 62.7
Independent Henry Ellis 802 37.3
Total formal votes 2,150 99.6
Informal votes 9 0.4
Turnout 2,159 71.9
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles McDowall 1,010 60.1 +25.6
Ministerial William Eddy 670 39.9 +3.9
Total formal votes 1,680 99.3 +3.0
Informal votes 12 0.7 -3.0
Turnout 1,692 89.7 +33.4
Labor gain from Ministerial SwingN/A
1906 Coolgardie state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial William Eddy 1,051 52.5 +16.5
Labor Charles McDowall 951 47.5 +13.0
Total formal votes 2,002 99.2 +2.9
Informal votes 17 0.8 -2.9
Turnout 2,019 73.4 +17.1
Ministerial hold SwingN/A
1905 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial William Eddy 544 36.0 –5.5
Labor Charles McDowall 521 34.5 –24.0
Independent Labor Henry Ellis 446 29.5 +29.5
Total formal votes 1,511 96.3 –2.9
Informal votes 58 0.8 +2.9
Turnout 1,569 56.3 –3.4
Ministerial gain from Independent Labor Swing–5.5
1904 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Henry Ellis 1,159 58.5 +58.5
Ministerial William Eddy 821 41.5 +41.5
Total formal votes 1,980 99.2 –0.7
Informal votes 15 0.8 +0.7
Turnout 1,995 59.7 +19.6
Labor gain from Ministerial Swing+58.5
1901 Western Australian state election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial Alfred Morgans 811 50.8 –20.0
Labor Peter Wedd 414 25.9 +25.9
Opposition James MacCallum Smith 372 23.3 +23.3
Total formal votes 1,597 99.2 +1.4
Informal votes 13 0.8 –1.4
Turnout 1,610 43.2 +1.9
Ministerial hold Swing–20.0

Elections in the 1890s

1897 Western Australian colonial election: Coolgardie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerial Alf Morgans 595 70.8
Opposition Alfred Hales 245 29.2
Total formal votes 840 97.8
Informal votes 19 2.2
Turnout 859 41.3
Ministerial hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
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