Electoral district of Kahibah

Kahibah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member districts from part of the electoral district of Newcastle and named after the Newcastle suburb of Kahibah. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation. It was recreated in 1927 and abolished and partly replaced by Waratah in 1930. It was recreated in 1950 and abolished again in 1971 and replaced by Charlestown.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Members for Kahibah[edit]

First incarnation (1894–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Alfred Edden	Labour	1894–1917
	Alfred Edden	Nationalist	1917–1920
Second incarnation (1927–1930)
Member		Party	Term
	Hugh Connell	Labor	1927–1930
Third incarnation (1950–1971)
Member		Party	Term
	Joshua Arthur	Labor	1950–1953
	Tom Armstrong	Independent Labor	1953–1957
	Jack Stewart	Labor	1957–1971

Election results[edit]

1968 New South Wales state election: Kahibah ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Stewart	12,949	58.5	-5.1
	Liberal	Roy Hammond	7,166	32.4	-4.1
	Democratic Labor	William Crane	1,055	4.8	+4.8
	Communist	Darrell Dawson	691	3.1	+3.1
	Independent	William Fricker	259	1.2	+1.2
Total formal votes			22,120	97.6
Informal votes			540	2.4
Turnout			22,660	95.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jack Stewart	13,843	62.6	-1.0
	Liberal	Roy Hammond	8,277	37.4	+1.0
	Labor hold		Swing	-1.0

References[edit]

^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ Green, Antony. "1968 Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

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[Green_Kahibah-1] Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2020.

[2] "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[3] "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

[Results_of_the_1968_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1968_Kahibah-4] Green, Antony. "1968 Kahibah". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.

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