title: Electoral results for the district of Surry Hills
text: # Electoral results for the district of Surry Hills
  
  Surry Hills, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1904 until 1920 and from 1927 until 1930.
  
  | Election | Member | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1904 | | John Norton | Independent |
  | 1907 by | | Albert Bruntnell | Liberal Reform |
  | 1907 | | Sir James Graham | Liberal Reform |
  | 1910 | | Henry Hoyle | Labor |
  | 1913 | | Henry Hoyle | Labor |
  | 1917 | | Henry Hoyle | Nationalist |
  | Election | Member | Member | Party |
  | 1927 | | Arthur Buckley | Labor |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Elections in the 1920s
  
  **1927**
  
  1927 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Tom Shannon | 7,536 | 66.1 | |
  | | Nationalist | William Adkins | 3,694 | 32.4 | |
  | | Independent | John Salmon | 175 | 1.5 | |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 11,405 | 98.6 | |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 164 | 1.4 | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,569 | 76.7 | |
  | | Labor win | Labor win | (new seat) | (new seat) | (new seat) |
  
  District recreated
  
  **1920 - 1927**
  
  District abolished
  
  ### Elections in the 1910s
  
  **1917**
  
  1917 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Arthur Buckley | 3,585 | 65.5 | -0.1 |
  | | Nationalist | Percy Daly | 1,550 | 28.3 | +28.3 |
  | | Independent | Thomas Kohan | 272 | 5.0 | +5.0 |
  | | Independent | John Eaton | 39 | 0.7 | +0.7 |
  | | Ind. Socialist Labor | Ludwig Klausen | 26 | 0.5 | +0.5 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 5,472 | 98.8 | +0.5 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 66 | 1.2 | -0.5 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 5,538 | 47.1 | -12.9 |
  | | Labor hold | Labor hold | Swing | -0.1 | |
  
  **1913**
  
  1913 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Henry Hoyle | 4,717 | 65.6 |
  | | Independent | William Walker | 2,393 | 33.3 |
  | | Socialist Labor | Ludwig Klausen | 82 | 1.1 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 7,192 | 98.3 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 123 | 1.7 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,315 | 60.0 |
  | | Labor hold | Labor hold | | |
  
  **1910**
  
  1910 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labor | Henry Hoyle | 3,711 | 60.4 | +25.1 |
  | | Liberal Reform | Sir James Graham (defeated) | 2,399 | 39.0 | +1.7 |
  | | Independent | John Eaton | 38 | 0.6 | |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 6,148 | 97.0 | +0.7 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 191 | 3.0 | -0.7 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 6,339 | 67.6 | -0.8 |
  | | Labor gain from Liberal Reform | Labor gain from Liberal Reform | | | |
  
  **1907**
  
  1907 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal Reform | Sir James Graham | 2,227 | 37.3 |
  | | Labor | John Birt | 2,104 | 35.3 |
  | | Independent | Paddy Crick | 1,442 | 24.2 |
  | | Independent | George Perry | 194 | 3.3 |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 5,967 | 96.3 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 230 | 3.7 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 6,197 | 68.4 |
  | | Liberal Reform gain from Independent | Liberal Reform gain from Independent | | |
  
  **1906 by-election**
  
  1906 Surry Hills by-election Saturday 21 July :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal Reform | Albert Bruntnell (elected) | 1,109 | 30.5 | -3.8 |
  | | Independent | Dick Meagher | 961 | 26.4 | |
  | | Labor | Henry Lawton | 888 | 24.4 | |
  | | Independent | John Norton (defeated) | 679 | 18.7 | -27.1 |
  | | Independent | James Jones | 3 | 0.1 | |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 3,640 | 98.9 | +0.2 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 40 | 1.1 | -0.2 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,680 | 36.2 | -20.8 |
  | | Liberal Reform gain from Independent | Liberal Reform gain from Independent | Swing | | |
  
  **1904**
  
  1904 New South Wales state election: Surry Hills :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Independent | John Norton | 2,646 | 45.8 | |
  | | Liberal Reform | John Charles Waine | 1,982 | 34.3 | |
  | | Progressive | Arthur Nelson | 513 | 8.9 | |
  | | Independent Liberal | Richard Watkins Richards | 403 | 7.0 | |
  | | Independent | James Henry Lawrence | 238 | 4.1 | |
  | | Independent | James Bernard Black | 2 | 0.0 | |
  | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 5,784 | 98.7 | |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 74 | 1.3 | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 5,858 | 57.0 | |
  | | Independent win | Independent win | (new seat) | (new seat) | (new seat) |
  