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1887 Election Totals - Single Member Districts (Explain this table)
Party	Districts	Vacancies	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Free Trade (includes 7 uncontested)	31	31	35	21	15,098	49.44
Protectionist (includes 3 uncontested)	24	24	26	14	11,728	38.41
Independent Free Trade	4	4	4	1	2,470	8.09
Independent Protectionist (includes 1 uncontested)	3	3	3	1	1,017	3.33
Independent	1	1	1	..	222	0.73
Total Districts (Roll: 71,207)	37	37	69	37	..	..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 52,207)	26	26	58	26	30,535	59.58
Persons Voting / Turnout	26	26	58	26	30,543	59.60
Informal Votes	..	..	..	..	570	1.83
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 19,000)	11	11	11	11	..	..

1887 Election Totals - 2 Member Districts
Party	Districts	Vacancies	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Free Trade (includes 2 uncontested)	19	38	37	25	36,289	54.12
Protectionist (includes 4 uncontested)	21	42	34	17	26,492	39.51
Independent Free Trade	2	4	2	2	1,556	2.32
Independent Protectionist	2	4	2	2	2,094	3.12
Independent	1	2	1	..	621	0.93
Total Districts (Roll: 85,288)	23	46	76	46	..	..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 74,110)	20	40	70	40	67,052	45.97
Persons Voting / Turnout	20	40	70	40	39,820	54.46
Informal Votes	..	..	..	..	539	1.34
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 11,178)	3	6	6	6	..	..

1887 Election Totals - 3 Member Districts
Party	Districts	Vacancies	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Free Trade	7	21	20	14	39,984	62.63
Protectionist	7	21	15	5	20,074	31.44
Independent Free Trade	1	3	1	1	1,630	2.55
Independent Protectionist	1	3	1	1	2,069	3.24
Independent	1	3	1	..	89	0.14
District Totals (Roll: 46,998)	7	21	38	21	63,846	46.40
Persons Voting / Turnout	7	21	38	21	26,322	57.12
Informal Votes	..	..	..	..	525	1.96

1887 Election Totals - 4 Member Districts
Party	Districts	Vacancies	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Free Trade	5	20	25	19	70,946	78.33
Protectionist	5	20	13	1	18,940	20.91
Independent	1	4	1	..	685	0.76
District Totals (Roll: 53,268)	5	20	39	20	90,571	43.71
Persons Voting / Turnout	5	20	39	20	32,102	61.47
Informal Votes	..	..	..	..	641	1.96

1887 Election Totals - Overall Election Results (Explain this table)
Party	Districts	Vacancies	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Free Trade (includes 9 uncontested)	62	110	117	79	78,238	60.75
Protectionist (includes 7 uncontested)	57	107	88	37	42,354	32.89
Independent Free Trade	7	11	7	4	4,159	3.23
Independent Protectionist (includes 1 uncontested)	6	10	6	4	3,105	2.41
Independent	4	10	4	..	931	0.72
Total Districts (Roll: 256,761)	72	124	222	124	..	..
Contested District Totals (Roll: 226,583)	58	107	205	107	252,004	48.66
Persons Voting / Turnout	58	107	205	107	128,787	57.84
Informal Votes	..	..	..	..	2,275	1.74
Uncontested Districts (Roll: 30,178)	14	17	17	17	..	..

Electors were entitled to vote for as many candidates as there were vacancies to be filled. In the above tables, votes refer to the total of votes for each candidate, which means in multi-member districts, there could be more votes than electors. Ballots refers to the number of ballot papers counted, which corresponds to the number of persons voting. The persons voting values have been generally obtained from the NSW Statistical Register. Where a value has not been available, an estimate of the number of ballots has been calculated by dividing the number of votes by the number of vacancies.

It is not possible to simply add the number of votes in districts with different numbers of vacancies. The final overall totals has been calculated by weighting the total of votes to match the number of ballots cast. All tables estimate the overall totals based on the best available record of results.

Seats Won by Party
Party	Seats won
Free Trade	Argyle (2 of 2) Balmain (3 of 3) Bathurst The Bogan (2 of 2) Bourke (2 of 2) Camden (2 of 2) Canterbury (4 of 4) Carcoar (2 of 2) Central Cumberland (3 of 3) (See By-elections) Durham Forbes (1 of 2) The Glebe (2 of 2) Glen Innes Gloucester Goulburn (Uncontested) Hartley The Hastings and Manning (2 of 2) The Hawkesbury The Hunter (Uncontested) The Upper Hunter (2 of 2) Illawarra Inverell Kiama (Uncontested) East Macquarie (2 of 2) West Macquarie East Maitland (Uncontested) (See By-elections) West Maitland (Uncontested) Mudgee (2 of 3) (See By-elections) The Namoi The Nepean Newcastle (1 of 2) New England (1 of 2) Newtown (3 of 3) (See By-elections) Orange (1 of 2) Paddington (3 of 3) (See By-elections) Parramatta (Uncontested) Patrick's Plains (Uncontested) Redfern (4 of 4) (See By-elections) Shoalhaven St Leonards (2 of 2) (Uncontested) (See By-elections) East Sydney (4 of 4) South Sydney (3 of 4) (See By-elections) West Sydney (4 of 4) Tenterfield Wollombi Young (1 of 2)
Protectionist	Albury Boorowa (Uncontested) Braidwood The Clarence Eden (2 of 2) (Uncontested) Forbes (1 of 2) Grafton (Uncontested) Grenfell Gunnedah (See By-elections) The Gwydir (Uncontested) The Hume (2 of 2) (Uncontested) The Macleay Monaro (1 of 2) Morpeth Mudgee (1 of 3) (See By-elections) The Murray (2 of 2) The Murrumbidgee (2 of 3) Newcastle (1 of 2) New England (1 of 2) Northumberland (2 of 3) Orange (1 of 2) Queanbeyan The Richmond (2 of 2) South Sydney (1 of 4) (See By-elections) Tamworth (2 of 2) Tumut Wellington Wentworth (1 of 2) (See By-elections) Yass Plains Young (1 of 2)
Ind Free Trade	Balranald (1 of 2) Gundagai The Murrumbidgee (1 of 3) Wentworth (1 of 2) (See By-elections)
Ind Protectionist	Balranald (1 of 2) Molong (Uncontested) Monaro (1 of 2) Northumberland (1 of 3)