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1885 Election Totals - Single Member Districts (Explain this table)
Category Districts Vacancies Candidates Votes %
Total Districts (Roll: 65,820) 37 37 78 .. ..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 55,258) 31 31 72 33,961 62.74
Persons Voting / Turnout 31 31 72 34,023 62.85
Informal Votes .. .. .. 709 2.04
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 10,562) 6 6 6 .. ..

1885 Election Totals - 2 Member Districts
Category Districts Vacancies Candidates Votes %
Total Districts (Roll: 83,086) 24 48 87 .. ..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 78,204) 23 46 85 76,707 49.86
Persons Voting / Turnout 23 46 85 43,952 57.02
Informal Votes .. .. .. 640 1.44
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 4,882) 1 2 2 .. ..

1885 Election Totals - 3 Member Districts
Category Districts Vacancies Candidates Votes %
District Totals (Roll: 43,561) 7 21 42 61,291 48.52
Persons Voting / Turnout 7 21 42 26,161 61.68
Informal Votes .. .. .. 706 2.63

1885 Election Totals - 4 Member Districts
Category Districts Vacancies Candidates Votes %
District Totals (Roll: 39,923) 4 16 30 65,940 42.83
Persons Voting / Turnout 4 16 30 25,753 66.04
Informal Votes .. .. .. 614 2.33

1885 Election Totals - Overall Election Results (Explain this table)
Category Districts Vacancies Candidates Votes %
Total Districts (Roll: 232,390) 72 122 237 .. ..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 216,946) 65 114 229 237,899 51.58
Persons Voting / Turnout 65 114 229 129,888 61.10
Informal Votes .. .. .. 2,669 2.01
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 15,444) 7 8 8 .. ..

Electors were entitled to vote for as many candidates as there were vacancies to be filled. In the above tables, votes refer to the total of votes for each candidate, which means in multi-member districts, there could be more votes than electors. Ballots refers to the number of ballot papers counted, which corresponds to the number of persons voting. The persons voting values have been generally obtained from the NSW Statistical Register. Where a value has not been available, an estimate of the number of ballots has been calculated by dividing the number of votes by the number of vacancies.

It is not possible to simply add the number of votes in districts with different numbers of vacancies. The final overall totals has been calculated by weighting the total of votes to match the number of ballots cast. All tables estimate the overall totals based on the best available record of results.