ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF NEPEAN, NEW SOUTH WALES ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== West of Sydney: Granville, Lithgow, Liverpool, Penrith -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1903 majority cannot be calculated -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,719 Votes cast: 16,754 56.4 Informal votes: 677 04.0 Formal votes: 16,077 96.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric BOWDEN AS 9,749 60.6 Charles Dyer Lab 5,471 34.0 Thomas Taylor 857 05.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,077 13.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Kendall Bowden (1872-1931): Elected 1906 Born: 30 September 1872, Parramatta, NSW. Career: Educated Sydney High School and Newington College. Solicitor 1894. Granville Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== West of Sydney: Granville, Lithgow, Liverpool, Penrith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Anti-Socialist over Labour 13.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,235 +18.6 Votes cast: 21,950 62.3 +05.9 Informal votes: 376 01.7 -02.3 Formal votes: 21,574 98.3 +02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George CANN ALP 11,113 51.5 +17.5 Eric Bowden * Lib 10,461 48.5 -12.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 21,574 01.5 14.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Kendall Bowden (1872-1931): Elected 1906. Defeated 1910 Later career: See Nepean 1919. > George Cann (1871-1948): Elected 1910 Born: 1871, Northumberland, England. Career: Primary education. Coalminer at 11. Migrated 1900. Miner, Lithgow, President Western Miners Association. Alderman Lithgow Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 31 MAY 1913 ELECTION OF 5 SEPTEMBER 1914 ELECTION OF 5 MAY 1917 ELECTION OF 13 DECEMBER 1919