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East Macquarie - 1877 (Roll: 2,063) - 2 to be elected
Nominations: Thursday, 1 November 1877, Polling: Monday, 5 November 1877
Candidate Votes Votes %
Robertson, John (Elected 1) 781 38.51
Suttor, William Henry Jnr (Re-elected 2) 627 30.92
Cummings, William 515 25.39
Stephen, George Milner 105 5.18
Formal Votes 2,028
Informal Votes 21 1.02
Total Votes / Estimated Turnout 2,049 50.17
Persons Voting / Turnout 1,307 63.35
Notes: Sitting MP John Booth contested The Williams. John Robertson had been defeated on 25 October in his old seat of West Sydney. He was elected MP for Mudgee on the same day as elected for East Macquarie, leading to the subsequent by-election in this seat as he chose to represent Mudgee.
Source: Bathurst Times, 7 November 1877, p.3