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Electoral results for the district of Roebourne

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

Members for Roebourne

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Member Party Term
  George Leake Non-aligned 1890
  Horace Sholl Ministerial 1891–1901
  John Sydney Hicks Ministerial 1901–1908
  Henry Osborn Ministerial 1908–1911
  Joseph Gardiner Labor 1911–1915
  William Butcher Liberal 1915–1917
  Nationalist 1917
  Frederick Teesdale Nationalist 1917–1932
  John Church Nationalist 1932–1933
  Aloysius Rodoreda Labor 1933–1950

Election results

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Elections in the 1940s

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1947 Western Australian state election: Roebourne[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alec Rodoreda unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1943 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alec Rodoreda 221 69.5 +7.4
Country George Monger 97 30.5 +30.5
Total formal votes 318 98.8 −0.8
Informal votes 4 1.2 +0.8
Turnout 322 65.5 −19.3
Labor hold Swing +7.4

Elections in the 1930s

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1939 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alec Rodoreda 355 62.1 −37.9
Nationalist Alexander Angelo 217 37.9 +37.9
Total formal votes 572 99.6
Informal votes 2 0.4
Turnout 574 84.8
Labor hold Swing N/A
1936 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alec Rodoreda unopposed
Labor hold Swing
1933 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alec Rodoreda 261 52.3 +22.4
Nationalist John Church 238 47.7 −22.4
Total formal votes 499 98.6 −1.0
Informal votes 7 1.4 +1.0
Turnout 506 86.4 +12.2
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing +22.4
1932 Roebourne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist John Church 108 28.9 n/a
Labor John Archer 68 18.2 –11.7
Independent Harold Cornish 61 16.3 +16.3
Independent Ernest Foulkes-Taylor 54 14.4 +14.4
Nationalist Richard Sleeman 50 13.4 n/a
Country Charles Ferguson 33 8.8 +8.8
Total formal votes 374 96.9 –2.7
Informal votes 12 3.1 +2.7
Turnout 386 83.9 +9.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Nationalist John Church 211 56.4 –13.7
Independent Harold Cornish 163 43.5 +43.6
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1930 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederick Teesdale 317 70.1
Labor Arthur Orr 135 29.9
Total formal votes 452 99.6
Informal votes 2 0.4
Turnout 454 74.2
Nationalist hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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1927 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederick Teesdale 252 57.8 −42.2
Labor Thomas McCarthy 184 42.2 +42.2
Total formal votes 436 99.8
Informal votes 1 0.2
Turnout 437 66.2
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1924 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederick Teesdale unopposed
Nationalist hold Swing
1921 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederick Teesdale 246 74.8 −3.1
Labor Thomas Daley 47 14.3 −7.8
Independent Richard Hancock 36 10.9 +10.9
Total formal votes 329 98.5 −1.2
Informal votes 5 1.5 +1.2
Turnout 334 57.6 +8.9
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

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1917 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Frederick Teesdale 271 77.9 +77.9
Labor John Haughey 77 22.1 –25.1
Total formal votes 348 99.7 +1.4
Informal votes 1 0.3 –1.4
Turnout 349 48.7 n/a
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1915 Roebourne state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Butcher 254 53.8 +8.2
Labor William Waugh 218 46.2 −8.2
Total formal votes 472 98.3 +0.8
Informal votes 8 1.7 −0.8
Turnout 480 N/A
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +8.2
1914 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph Gardiner 324 54.4 −11.9
Liberal Frederick Teesdale 272 45.6 +28.6
Total formal votes 596 97.5 +1.7
Informal votes 15 2.5 −1.7
Turnout 611 54.1 −0.4
Labor hold Swing N/A
1911 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph Gardiner 379 66.3
Ministerialist Albert Wilson 97 17.0
Ministerialist Henry Osborn 96 16.8
Total formal votes 572 95.8
Informal votes 25 4.2
Turnout 597 54.5
Labor gain from Ministerialist Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1900s

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1908 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist Henry Osborn 185 52.7 −47.3
Ministerialist Albert Wilson 145 41.3 +41.3
Ministerialist William Withnell 21 6.0 +6.0
Total formal votes 351 93.6
Informal votes 24 6.4
Turnout 375 48.1
Ministerialist hold Swing N/A
1905 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist John Sydney Hicks unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1904 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist John Sydney Hicks unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1901 Western Australian state election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Sydney Hicks unopposed
Independent hold Swing

Elections in the 1890s

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1897 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ministerialist Horace Sholl unopposed
Ministerialist hold Swing
1894 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None Horace Sholl unopposed
1891 Roebourne colonial by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None Horace Sholl unopposed
1890 Western Australian colonial election: Roebourne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
None George Leake unopposed

References

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  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.