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

Members for Yilgarn

MembersPartyTerm
  Charles Moran Non-aligned 1894–1897
  William Oats Independent 1897–1904
  Austin Horan Labor 1904–1911
  Independent 1911
  Charles Hudson Labor 1911–1916
  National Labor 1916–1921
  Edwin Corboy Labor 1921–1930

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1927 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edwin Corboy 607 54.5 -3.9
Country John Blake 394 35.4 +19.3
Country Arthur Brown 112 10.1 +10.1
Total formal votes 1,113 98.4 -1.2
Informal votes 18 1.6 +1.2
Turnout 1,131 81.4 +5.1
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1924 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edwin Corboy 409 58.4 +10.4
Nationalist Austin Allom 134 19.1 +19.1
Executive Country Thomas Hamerston 113 16.1 +16.1
Executive Country Christian Andre 45 6.4 +6.4
Total formal votes 701 99.6 +2.5
Informal votes 3 0.4 -2.5
Turnout 704 76.3
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1921 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Edwin Corboy 358 48.0 +9.6
National Labor Charles Hudson 222 29.8 -4.5
Country Maurice Solomon 166 22.2 +22.2
Total formal votes 746 97.1 -1.5
Informal votes 22 2.9 +1.5
Turnout 768 72.1 -1.4
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Edwin Corboy 397 53.2 +9.5
National Labor Charles Hudson 349 46.8 -9.5
Labor gain from National Labor Swing+9.5

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alick McCallum 430 38.4 +38.4
National Labor Charles Hudson 384 34.3 –26.2
Nationalist Archibald McIntyre 244 21.8 –17.6
Nationalist John Dunstan 62 5.5 +5.5
Total formal votes 1,120 98.6 –0.4
Informal votes 16 1.4 +0.4
Turnout 1,136 73.5 +9.3
Two-party-preferred result
National Labor Charles Hudson 631 56.3 –4.3
Labor Alick McCallum 489 43.7 +43.7
National Labor hold SwingN/A
1914 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles Hudson 803 60.6 -2.0
Liberal Archibald McIntyre 523 39.4 +39.4
Total formal votes 1,326 99.0 -0.8
Informal votes 13 1.0 +0.8
Turnout 1,339 64.2 -2.8
Labor hold SwingN/A
1911 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Charles Hudson 1,058 62.6
Independent Austin Horan 633 37.4
Total formal votes 1,691 99.8
Informal votes 3 0.2
Turnout 1,694 67.0
Labor hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

1908 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Austin Horan 676 90.5 +31.8
Ministerial William Allen 71 9.5 +9.5
Total formal votes 747 99.2 +0.7
Informal votes 6 0.8 -0.7
Turnout 753 35.9 -7.5
Labor hold SwingN/A
1905 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Austin Horan 517 58.7 –2.9
Independent Labor Fergie Reid 364 41.3 +41.3
Total formal votes 881 99.5 +0.6
Informal votes 13 0.5 –0.6
Turnout 894 43.4 +13.4
Labor hold Swing–2.9
1904 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Austin Horan 1,172 61.6 +30.2
Ministerial William Hedges 732 38.4 +38.4
Total formal votes 1,904 98.9 –0.5
Informal votes 21 1.1 +0.5
Turnout 1,925 30.0 –17.6
Labor gain from Opposition Swing+30.2
1901 Western Australian state election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Opposition William Oats 186 39.7 –11.2
Labor Richard Sneddon 147 31.4 +31.4
Ministerial Isidor Cohn 74 15.8 –23.6
Independent William Montgomery 61 13.0 +13.0
Total formal votes 468 99.4 +4.0
Informal votes 3 0.6 –4.0
Turnout 471 47.6 +0.1
Opposition hold SwingN/A

Elections in the 1890s

1897 Western Australian colonial election: Yilgarn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent William Oats 115 50.9
Ministerial Isidor Cohn 89 39.4
Opposition George Leckie 22 9.7
Total formal votes 226 95.4
Informal votes 11 4.6
Turnout 237 47.5
Independent 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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