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

Sturt, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1889 until 1968 and from 1971 until 1981.

Election	Member		Party
1889		Wyman Brown	Protectionist
1891		John Cann	Labor
1894		William Ferguson	Labor
1895
1898
1901			Independent Labor / Liberal Reform
1904		Arthur Griffith	Labor
1907
1908 by
1910
1913		John Cann	Labor
1917 by		Percy Brookfield	Labor / Ind. Socialist Labor
1917				Member		Party	Member		Party
1920			Socialist Labor		Mat Davidson	Labor		Brian Doe	Nationalist
1921 Appt		Jabez Wright	Labor
1922
1922 Appt		Ted Horsington	Labor
1925
1927
1930
1932
1935
1938			Labor / Industrial Labor / Labor
1941			Labor
1944
1947		William Wattison	Labor
1950
1953
1956
1959
1962
1965
Election	Member		Party
1971		Tim Fischer	National
1973
1976
1978
1981 by		John Sullivan	National

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1971

District re-created

1968 - 1971

District abolished

District abolished

Elections in the 1920s

1922 appointment

Jabez Wright died on 10 September 1922. Ted Horsington was the only unsuccessful Labor candidate at the 1922 election and took his seat on 20 September 1922.

1921 appointment

On 22 March 1921 Percy Brookfield was murdered while trying to disarm a deranged man at Riverton. 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, provided that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate "who represents the same party interest as the late member". Which party interest Brookfield represented was not straightforward. He had been the Labor member for Sturt since the 1917 by-election, however he resigned from the Labor Party in August 1919, and joined the Industrial Socialist Labor Party, which in January 1920 merged with the Socialist Labor Party, retaining the later name. Under this banner Brookfield was the first candidate elected at the 1920 election for Sturt. He was however dissatisfied with the manner in which the affairs of that party have been carried on" and formed a new Industrial Labor Party in February 1921, shortly before his death. There was debate concerning who should be appointed. The Industrial Labor Party said that John O'Reilly should be appointed, while The Sydney Morning Herald stated that Thomas Hynes had the greater number of primary votes and thus he should be appointed. The nomination had to come from the recognised party leader according to votes on any censure motion and Labor leader John Storey nominated Jabez Wright.