Electoral results for the district of Cumberland (New South Wales)

Cumberland, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1920 and abolished in 1927.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Election		Party		Party		Party
1920	Voltaire Molesworth	Labor	Bruce Walker	Nationalist	Ernest Carr	Nationalist
1922	Voltaire Molesworth	Labor			William FitzSimons	Nationalist
1922	James McGirr	Labor
1925
1926 appointment					James Shand	Nationalist

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1926 appointment

William FitzSimons died on 20 March 1926.^[4] Between 1920 and 1927 the Legislative Assembly was elected using a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark). The Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act,^[5] provided that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate on the incumbent member's party list. James Shand was the only unsuccessful Nationalist candidate at the 1925 election and took his seat on 22 September 1926.^[6]

1925

1925 New South Wales state election: Cumberland ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			7,885
	Nationalist	William FitzSimons (elected 1)	8,959	28.4	+2.6
	Nationalist	Bruce Walker Sr (elected 2)	7,989	25.3	+2.3
	Nationalist	James Shand	4,010	12.7	+12.7
	Labor	James McGirr (elected 3)	7,102	22.5	−3.1
	Labor	Robert Bingham	1,621	5.1	+5.1
	Progressive	Reginald Harris	826	2.6	+2.6
	Progressive	Aaron Morris	121	0.4	+0.4
	Progressive	Arthur Upchurch	47	0.2	+0.2
	Independent	Ernest Carr	330	1.1	+1.1
	Independent	John Allaburton	124	0.4	+0.4
Total formal votes			31,537	97.3	+0.3
Informal votes			882	2.7	−0.3
Turnout			32,419	68.9	−1.1
Party total votes
	Nationalist		20,958	66.4	−4.9
	Labor		9,131	29.0	+2.9
	Progressive		994	3.2	+0.6
	Independent	Ernest Carr	330	1.1	+1.1
	Independent	John Allaburton	124	0.4	+0.4

1922

1922 New South Wales state election: Cumberland ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	William FitzSimons (elected 1)	7,498	25.8	+25.8
	Nationalist	Bruce Walker (elected 3)	6,701	23.0	+0.8
	Nationalist	Ernest Carr (defeated)	6,555	22.5	+9.0
	Labor	Voltaire Molesworth (elected 2)	7,434	25.6	+2.4
	Labor	Charles York	145	0.5	+0.5
	Progressive	Edwin Crowther	326	1.1	+1.1
	Progressive	Albert Smith	293	1.0	+1.0
	Progressive	Reuben Jenner	138	0.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			29,090	97.0	+4.6
Informal votes			883	3.0	−4.6
Turnout			29,973	70.0	+15.7
Party total votes
	Nationalist		20,754	71.3	+22.8
	Labor		7,579	26.1	−4.4
	Progressive		757	2.6	−10.6

1920

1920 New South Wales state election: Cumberland ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
Quota			4,655
	Nationalist	Bruce Walker Sr (elected 2)	4,142	22.2
	Nationalist	Ernest Carr (elected 3)	2,520	13.5
	Nationalist	William FitzSimons	2,364	12.7
	Labor	Voltaire Molesworth (elected 1)	4,315	23.2
	Labor	Albert Jones	1,096	5.9
	Labor	Francis Lagerlow	259	1.4
	Soldiers & Citizens	Charles Hely	442	2.4
	Soldiers & Citizens	William Armstrong	334	1.8
	Independent	William Crittenden	681	3.7
Total formal votes			18,617	92.4
Informal votes			1,539	7.6
Turnout			20,156	54.3
Party total votes
	Nationalist		9,026	48.5
	Labor		5,670	30.5
	Progressive		2,464	13.2
	Soldiers & Citizens		776	4.2
	Independent	William Crittenden	681	3.7

References

^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
^ "Mr William Robert FitzSimons (1870–1926)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
^ Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920 (NSW).
^ Green, Antony. "1926 Cumberland appointment". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^ Green, Antony. "1925 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1922 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ Green, Antony. "1920 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

[Green_Cumberland-1] Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 August 2020.

[2] "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

[3] "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2019.

[William_FitzSimons_NSW_parl-4] "Mr William Robert FitzSimons (1870–1926)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

[5] Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920 (NSW).

[Green_Cumberland_1926-6] Green, Antony. "1926 Cumberland appointment". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

[Results_of_the_1925_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1925_Cumberland-7] Green, Antony. "1925 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1922_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1922_Cumberland-8] Green, Antony. "1922 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[Results_of_the_1920_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1920_Cumberland-9] Green, Antony. "1920 Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

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Sydney east	Alexandria Paddington Paddington-Waverley Randwick Surry Hills Waterloo Waverley Woollahra
Sydney south	Annandale Arncliffe Ashfield Ashfield-Croydon Balmain North Balmain South Bass Hill Burragorang Clyde Concord Cook's River Croydon Cumberland (South Riding) Darlington Dulwich Hill Enmore East Camden Eastern Suburbs Georges River Glebe Hurstville Ingleburn Lakemba Leichhardt Marrickville Menai Merrylands Narellan Newtown-Annandale Newtown-Camperdown Newtown-Erskine Newtown-St Peters Petersham Redfern Rozelle St George Smithfield South Sydney Sutherland Wentworthville West Camden Woronora Yaralla
Wollongong & south coast	Allowrie Bulli Bondi Botany Burwood Camperdown Corrimal Eden Eden-Bombala Illawarra Kembla Maneroo Moruya Munmorah St Vincent Shoalhaven United Counties of Murray and St Vincent Wollongong-Kembla
North west	Alma Armidale Bathurst (County) The Bogan Bourke Broken Hill Burrendong Carcoar Castlereagh Cobar Cook and Westmoreland Coonamble East Macquarie Glen Innes Gloucester Gloucester and Macquarie Goldfields North Gough Gunnedah Gwydir Hartley Inverell Liverpool Plains Liverpool Plains and Gwydir Moree Mudgee Namoi Narrabri New England New England and Macleay Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh Quirindi Roxburgh Rylstone Sturt Tenterfield Uralla-Walcha Western Boroughs Wilcannia Willyama
South west	Argyle Ashburnham Balranald Belubula Bingara Blayney Boorowa Bowral Braidwood Burrangong Burrinjuck Condoublin Corowa Cowra The Darling Deniliquin Forbes Goldfields South Goldfields West Grenfell Gundagai Hay Hume King and Georgiana Lachlan Lachlan and Lower Darling Lyndhurst Molong Murray-Darling Murrumbidgee Queanbeyan Southern Boroughs Southern Highlands Temora Tumut Wentworth Wynyard Yass Yass Plains Young
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