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Newtown - 1885 (Roll: 5,406) - 3 to be elected
Nominations: Tuesday, 13 October 1885, Polling: Friday, 16 October 1885
Candidate Votes Votes %
Foster, William John (Elected 1) 1,906 23.58
Smith, James Francis (Elected 2) 1,899 23.49
Gibbes, Frederick Jamieson (Re-elected 3) 1,731 21.41
Bellemey, Richard Thomas 1,154 14.28
Hawken, Nicholas 726 8.98
Mitchell, Joseph (Defeated) 668 8.26
Formal Votes 8,084
Informal Votes 71 0.87
Total Votes / Estimated Turnout 8,155 51.16
Persons Voting / Turnout 3,515 65.02
Notes: Thrd seat added for the 1885 election.
Source: Report of nominations, SMH 14 October 1885, p.8 col.3-4, results 17 October, p.9 col.6. Note that a scrutineer wrote to the SMH 20 October p.5 col.7 correcting the published results, to which the Returning Officer responded re-confirming the original totals but correcting the table of booth results. Response published 21 October, p.5 col.4.