Electoral district of Rous
Appearance
Rous was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90.[1] It consisted of parts of Lismore and The Tweed. It was named after Rous County, between the Tweed and Richmond Rivers and Henry John Rous, who explored the rivers. In 1913, it was replaced by Byron.[2][3][4]
Members for Rous
Member | Party | Period | |
---|---|---|---|
John Coleman [5] | Liberal Reform | 1904–1905 | |
George Hindmarsh [6] | Liberal Reform | 1905–1913 |
Election results
1910
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | George Hindmarsh | 4,744 | 56.1 | ||
Labour | Alfred Taylor | 3,719 | 43.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 8,463 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 111 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 8,574 | 68.3 | |||
Liberal Reform hold |
1907
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | George Hindmarsh | 3,454 | 52.3 | ||
Independent | John Sheridan | 2,020 | 30.6 | ||
Independent | Richard Balmer | 1,128 | 17.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 6,602 | 96.0 | |||
Informal votes | 277 | 4.0 | |||
Turnout | 6,879 | 68.5 | |||
Liberal Reform hold |
1905 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | George Hindmarsh | 2,832 | 51.1 | -1.8 | |
Independent | Richard Meagher | 2,710 | 48.9 | +1.8 | |
Total formal votes | 5,542 | 99.6 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 24 | 0.4 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,566 | 73.2 [a] | +0.8 | ||
Liberal Reform hold | Swing |
1904
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Reform | John Coleman | 2,892 | 52.9 | ||
Independent | Richard Meagher | 2,577 | 47.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 5,469 | 99.4 | |||
Informal votes | 34 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 5,503 | 72.4 | |||
Liberal Reform win | (new seat) |
References
- ^ "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Rous". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Mr John William Coleman (1862–1905)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr George Thomas Hindmarsh (1861–1916)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1910 Rous". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1907 Rous". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1905 Rous by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ "Rous by-election". The Northern Star. 13 February 1905. p. 3. Retrieved 29 August 2019 – via Trove.
- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1904 Rous". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
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