Kahibah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member districts from part of the electoral district of Newcastle and named after the Newcastle suburb of Kahibah. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation. It was recreated in 1927 and abolished and partly replaced by Waratah in 1930. It was recreated in 1950 and abolished again in 1971 and replaced by Charlestown.[1][2][3]
Members for Kahibah
| First incarnation (1894–1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Alfred Edden | Labour | 1894–1917 | |
| Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
| Second incarnation (1927–1930) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Hugh Connell | Labor | 1927–1930 | |
| Third incarnation (1950–1971) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Joshua Arthur | Labor | 1950–1953 | |
| Tom Armstrong | Independent Labor | 1953–1957 | |
| Jack Stewart | Labor | 1957–1971 | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Jack Stewart | 12,949 | 58.5 | -5.1 | |
| Liberal | Roy Hammond | 7,166 | 32.4 | -4.1 | |
| Democratic Labor | William Crane | 1,055 | 4.8 | +4.8 | |
| Communist | Darrell Dawson | 691 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
| Independent | William Fricker | 259 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,120 | 97.6 | |||
| Informal votes | 540 | 2.4 | |||
| Turnout | 22,660 | 95.2 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jack Stewart | 13,843 | 62.6 | -1.0 | |
| Liberal | Roy Hammond | 8,277 | 37.4 | +1.0 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -1.0 | |||