Electoral results for the district of Alma

Electoral district of Alma, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1894 and abolished in 1904.^[1][2]

Members

Election	Member		Party
1894		Josiah Thomas	Labour
1895
1898
1901		William Williams	Independent Labour

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

1901

1901 New South Wales state election: Alma ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	William Williams	874	52.0
	Labour	Jabez Wright	783	46.6	-42.0
	Independent	William Colliss	25	1.5	+1.5
Total formal votes			1,682	100	+2.8
Informal votes			0	0	−2.8
Turnout			1,682	64.2	+18.8
	Independent Labour gain from Labour

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Alma.[edit]

The sitting member was Josiah Thomas (Labour) who did not contest the election as he had been elected in March 1901 to the federal seat of Barrier which included Broken Hill.^[4] William Williams nominated as an Independent Labor candidate after friction between local branches and the Barrier District Assembly.^[5]

Elections in the 1890s

1898

1898 New South Wales colonial election: Alma ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josiah Thomas	1,002	88.6
	National Federal	William Harding	126	11.1
	Independent	Charles Counsell	3	0.3
Total formal votes			1,131	97.2
Informal votes			33	2.8
Turnout			1,164	45.4
	Labour hold

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1898 New South Wales colonial election § Alma.[edit]

1895

1895 New South Wales colonial election: Alma ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josiah Thomas	unopposed
	Labour hold

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election § Alma.[edit]

1894

1894 New South Wales colonial election: Alma ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josiah Thomas	1,442	79.0
	Protectionist	Thomas Coombe	313	17.1
	Independent	Charles Pound	71	3.9
Total formal votes			1,826	98.8
Informal votes			22	1.2
Turnout			1,848	89.8
	Labour win		(new seat)

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election § Alma.[edit]

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Alma". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
3. Green, Antony. "1901 Alma". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
4. "Mr Josiah Thomas (1863–1933)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
5. "Alma and Sturt". Barrier Miner. 29 June 1901. p. 4. Retrieved 26 July 2020 – via Trove.
6. Green, Antony. "1898 Alma". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
7. Green, Antony. "1895 Alma". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
8. Green, Antony. "1894 Alma". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.