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TAMWORTH (IND)
Enrolment at 2-11-2001 : 43,682
Enrolment at 1999 General Election : 43,592
% Variation on 1999 GE Enrolment : 0.2
% Quota variation Sect. 28A : -3.7

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS
Square kilometres		15638.45	Ranked Against All 93
	Male	Female	Persons	Electorates
Total persons*	31101	32305	63406	53rd
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander / Both Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander*	1470	1553	3023	5th
Australian born	28412	29623	58035	4th
Born Overseas	1642	1613	3255	90th
Speaks English only and aged 5 years and over	27420	28595	56015	7th
Speaks language other than English(e) and aged 5 years and over	551	499	1050	87th
Australian citizen aged 18 years and over	20598	22084	42682	28th
Persons aged 65 years and over	3405	4602	8007	53rd
Unemployed*	1750	1093	2843	36th
Employed*	14548	11208	25756	51st
In the labour force*	16298	12301	28599	43rd
Not in the labour force*	6489	11980	18469	41st
Unemployment Rate*	10.7	8.9	9.9	18th
Employees (Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry)	2211	883	3094	9th
Employees (Government, Admin, Defence)	714	412	1126	26th
Persons employed as tradespersons or labourers	4723	1534	6257	37th
Employees (Manufacturing)	2052	566	2618	62nd
Employees (Finance and Insurance, Property and Business Services)	971	1132	2103	78th
Persons employed in professional occupations	3998	2876	6874	35th
Persons enumerated same address 5 years ago*	15787	16586	32373	48th
Persons enumerated different address 5 years ago*	11891	12275	24166	41st
Tertiary qualifications	2467	3362	5829	62nd
Trade qualifications	5155	1807	6962	49th
No qualifications	13278	16152	29430	26th
Persons attending Infant, Primary or Secondary School	6282	6177	12459	11th
Christian religion	26063	28077	54140	3rd
Non-christian religion	126	113	239	89th
"Traditional" families		7092	38th
Single parent families		1840	27th
Weekly family income less than $500		5640	29th
Weekly family income $500-$999		5880	2nd
Weekly family income $1000-$1499		2179	78th
Weekly family income $1500 or greater		1041	76th
Occupied private dwellings which are being purchased		5228	40th

* For definitions see Background Paper 2/99

Two-Candidate versus Two-Party Preferred results - by Antony Green
Extract from NSW Elections 1999 Background Paper 4/99

To win an electorate, a candidate must receive more than 50% of the vote after the distribution of preferences. This is carried out by successively excluding the candidate with the lowest primary vote, and distributing those votes as preferences to candidates remaining in the count. At the end of the count, the vote for the two remaining candidates is referred to as the 'two-candidate preferred count'.

In most electorates, this will also be the same as the 'two-party preferred' vote, representing the final distribution of preferences between candidates representing the Labor Party, and the Liberal and National Party Coalition. However, there were 10 electorates at the 1999 New South Wales election that did not finish with a two-party preferred count. In Bligh, Cabramatta, Keira and Tamworth, the two-candidate preferred count was between Labor and Independent candidates, in Albury and Manly between Liberal and Independent candidates, and between National and Independent candidates in Dubbo and Northern Tablelands. Cessnock finished as a contest between Labor and One Nation, and Marrickville a contest between Labor and the Greens.

In these electorates, the New South Wales Electoral Commissioner, Mr Ian Dickson, undertook an additional two-party preferred count for information purposes. These have been made available for the first time in [Background Paper 4/99].

At the 1995 election, two party preferred counts were not available for the electorates of Bligh, Manly, Marrickville, Port Jackson and Tamworth. In the first four of these electorates, an estimate of two-party preferred count has been made. In Tamworth, there was no Coalition candidate in 1995, so the two-candidate preferred vote of Independent Tony Windsor has been used as the two-party preferred count.

Two-Party Preferred Estimates in Tamworth

In 1995, Tamworth was not contested by a Coalition candidate, and the two-candidate preferred vote for Independent Tony Windsor has been used as the Coalition two-party preferred vote. However, a National Party candidate nominated in 1999, and very different two-party preferred swings are produced for Tamworth, depending on whether Tony Windor's two-candidate vote is used as the non-Labor two-party preferred vote, or the special distribution between the Labor and National Party candidates.

Throughout [Background Paper 4/99], the distribution between Labor and the National Party has been used. However, this inflates the swing to Labor between the two elections, so the following tables compare the impact on regional totals of using the two different counts.




	% Using Labor/Windsor Count	% Using Labor/National Count
Electorate/Region	ALP	Lib/Nat	Swing	ALP	Lib/Nat	Swing
Tamworth	14.8	85.2	3.1	to Lib/Nat	45.2	54.8	27.4	to Labor
Western Country	39.3	60.7	4.9	to Labor	42.6	57.4	8.2	to Labor
Country	41.8	58.2	5.2	to Labor	43.1	56.9	6.5	to Labor
Statewide	55.6	44.4	6.6	to Labor	56	44	7	to Labor



1999 Election Results
Extract from NSW Elections 1999 Background Paper 4/99

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY : SUMMARY OF FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES

Electoral
District	ALP	LIB	NAT	ONP	Other	Votes	Votes	Roll
Tamworth	5029	..	4701	2718	28182	520	41150	43606



LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY : SUMMARY OF PERCENTAGE VOTE

Electoral		Percentage of First Preference Votes		Informal
District	ALP	LIB	NAT	ONP	Other	Votes	Turnout
Tamworth	12.4	..	11.6	6.7	69.4	1.3	94.4



LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY : SUMMARY OF TWO-PARTY RESULTS

Electoral		2PP Votes		2PP Percent
District	ALP	Lib/Nat	ALP	Lib/Nat	Swing
Tamworth (2)	11456	13867	45.2	54.8	27.4	to Labor

(2) - See Page 2 for comment on the two-party preferred result in Tamworth

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY : ACTUAL TWO-CANDIDATE PREFERRED RESULTS

	Winning Candidate	Defeated Candidate
Electorate	Party	Vote	%	Party	Vote	%
Tamworth	IND	32288	85.2	ALP	5597	14.8





Tamworth	Roll 43606
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Swing
First Count
Windsor *	IND	28182	69.4	2.0
Mandel-Hayes	ONP	2718	6.7	6.7
Barry	ALP	5029	12.4	-4.0
Cox	NAT	4701	11.6	0.9
....	OTH		0	-5.6
Final Count
Windsor *	IND	32288	85.2	3.1
Barry	ALP	5597	14.8	-3.1
Exhausted	2745	6.8
Two-Party Preferred
Barry	ALP	11456	45.2	27.4
Cox	NAT	13867	54.8	-27.4
Exhausted		15307	37.7
Formal		40630	98.7	2.4
Informal		520	1.3	-2.4
Total		41150	94.4

(NOTE: See comment on two-party preferred result in Tamworth on Page 2)


Two Candidate Preferred
Extract from NSW LA Elections 1999: Two-Candidate preferred results by Polling Place
Background Paper 6/99



TAMWORTH 1999
Roll : 43606 (Turnout 94.4%)
	POLLING PLACES	Barry		Windsor		Total
		(ALP)		(IND)		Exhst	Formal	Informal		Vote
		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Attunga	44	10.6	371	89.4	31	446	5	1.1	451
2	Bendemeer	44	14.1	267	85.9	22	333	2	0.6	335
3	Calala	107	10.2	946	89.8	64	1117	13	1.2	1130
4	Carroll	54	28.1	138	71.9	27	219	2	0.9	221
5	Curlewis	87	26.4	242	73.6	38	367	10	2.7	377
6	Currabubula	22	11.5	170	88.5	13	205	5	2.4	210
7	Dungowan	18	7.3	230	92.7	16	264	2	0.8	266
8	Duri	20	6.6	281	93.4	16	317	1	0.3	318
9	Gunnedah	601	24.5	1855	75.5	262	2718	39	1.4	2757
10	Gunnedah High	266	24.1	836	75.9	108	1210	21	1.7	1231
11	Halls Creek	2	8.0	23	92.0	3	28	0	0.0	28
12	Hallsville	13	5.2	237	94.8	18	268	0	0.0	268
13	Hillvue	339	13.4	2200	86.6	164	2703	28	1.0	2731
14	Kelvin	13	12.1	94	87.9	11	118	0	0.0	118
15	Kootingal	129	11.3	1014	88.7	78	1221	7	0.6	1228
16	Loomberah	8	5.4	139	94.6	11	158	1	0.6	159
17	Moonbi	30	6.5	431	93.5	38	499	4	0.8	503
18	Moore Creek	28	8.1	319	91.9	21	368	2	0.5	370
19	Morington	231	21.4	849	78.6	121	1201	10	0.8	1211
20	Nemingha	53	9.5	505	90.5	43	601	5	0.8	606
21	Niangala	5	4.5	105	95.5	8	118	1	0.8	119
22	Nowendoc	1	1.4	68	98.6	4	73	1	1.4	74
23	Nundle	41	13.1	271	86.9	31	343	3	0.9	346
24	Oxley Vale	178	13.2	1174	86.8	82	1434	23	1.6	1457
25	Peel High	250	18.2	1121	81.8	101	1472	22	1.5	1494
26	Somerton	11	6.3	165	93.8	15	191	1	0.5	192
27	Sydney (Tamworth)	3	5.9	48	94.1	5	56	0	0.0	56
28	Tamworth	250	12.2	1796	87.8	117	2163	27	1.2	2190
29	Tamworth High	566	16.2	2919	83.8	230	3715	76	2.0	3791
30	Tamworth Hospital	31	13.7	195	86.3	19	245	5	2.0	250
31	Tamworth North	111	14.8	641	85.2	47	799	9	1.1	808
32	Tamworth Primary	328	13.3	2129	86.7	156	2613	29	1.1	2642
33	Tamworth West	222	15.4	1217	84.6	107	1546	23	1.5	1569
34	Timbumburi	32	8.1	364	91.9	26	422	3	0.7	425
35	Walcha	158	12.0	1154	88.0	90	1402	22	1.5	1424
36	Werris Creek	198	20.9	750	79.1	48	996	7	0.7	1003
37	Westdale	84	10.7	700	89.3	63	847	9	1.1	856
38	Woolbrook	10	10.4	86	89.6	10	106	1	0.9	107
39	Woolomin	30	19.9	121	80.1	7	158	5	3.1	163
40	Yarrowitch	6	6.7	84	93.3	7	97	1	1.0	98
	Total Booth Votes	4624	15.0	26255	85.0	2278	33157	425	1.3	33582
	Absent Votes	476	16.2	2463	83.8	207	3146	48	1.5	3194
	Dec Inst Votes	39	17.0	191	83.0	12	242	4	1.6	246
	Postal Votes	154	13.4	994	86.6	68	1216	5	0.4	1221
	Pre-Poll Votes	299	11.2	2371	88.8	175	2845	38	1.3	2883
	Section Votes	6	27.3	16	72.7	2	24	0	0.0	24
	Total Declaration	974	13.9	6035	86.1	464	7473	95	1.3	7568
​	Grand Total	5597	14.8	32288	85.2	2745	40630	520	1.3	41150

The information contained in this document has been extracted from the following sources:

NSW State Election 1999: Elec​​torate Profiles by Mark D’Arney Background Paper No 2/99

New South Wales State Electoral Districts Ranked by 1996 Census Characteristics by Mark D’Arney Background Paper No 1/99

NSW LA Elections 1999: Two-Candidate preferred results by Polling Place by Antony Green
Background Paper 6/99

New South Wales Elections 1999 by Antony Green Background Paper 4/99

Ranked data has been extracted from the Census96 spreadsheet data provided to the NSW Parliamentary Library by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data used presents the 1996 Census data in relation to the New South Wales state electoral boundaries as redistributed in 1998.The tables in this publication should be read in conjunction with the definitions provided in the original publications cited above.

PLEASE NOTE:
Census 2001 figures are not expected to be published by the ABS until at least November 2002.