East Sydney - 1885 (Roll: 10,240) - 4 to be elected
Nominations: Tuesday, 13 October 1885, Polling: Friday, 16 October 1885
Candidate
Votes
Votes %
Barton, Edmund (Re-elected 1)
3,903
22.03
Reid, George Houstoun (Elected 2)
3,399
19.19
Copeland, Henry (Re-elected 3)
3,208
18.11
Burdekin, Sydney (Re-elected 4)
2,988
16.87
Griffiths, George Neville (Defeated)
1,997
11.27
Lees, Samuel Edward
1,786
10.08
Brown, George
435
2.46
Formal Votes
17,716
Informal Votes
97
0.54
Total Votes / Estimated Turnout
17,813
44.20
Persons Voting / Turnout
6,917
67.55
Source: Report of nominations, SMH 14 October 1885, p.7 col.1-4, results 19 October, p.4 col.1-2, includes booth results. Year-Book of Australia reports Burdekin with 2998 votes, a figure also used on 16 October in the SMH.