Electoral history of Robert Stout

This is a summary of the electoral history of Sir Robert Stout, Prime Minister of New Zealand, (1884–1887).

Parliamentary elections

1875 Caversham by-election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Robert Stout	232	52.37
	Independent	William Larnach	211	47.63
Majority			11	4.74
Turnout			443

1875 general election: Dunedin^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	James Macandrew	891	71.22
	Independent	Robert Stout	865	69.14
	Independent	William Larnach	843	67.38
	Independent	William Reynolds	476	38.04
	Independent	James Macassey	409	32.69
	Independent	Henry Fish	238	19.02
	Independent	James Grant	29	2.31
Turnout			1,251

1884 general election: Dunedin East^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Robert Stout	755	59.45
	Independent	Matthew Green	515	40.55
Majority			240	18.89
Turnout			1,270	70.63
Registered electors			1,798

1887 general election: Dunedin East^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	James Allen	889	50.82
	Independent	Sir Robert Stout	860	49.18	−10.27
Majority			29	1.65
Turnout			1,749	78.32	+7.69
Registered electors			2,233

1893 Inangahua by-election^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Stout	1,899	70.67
	Liberal	Patrick O'Regan	788	29.33
Majority			611	41.36
Turnout			2,687

1893 New Zealand general election: Wellington^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Stout	6,218	46.73
	Conservative	Francis Bell	5,773	43.39
	Conservative	John Duthie	4,840	36.37
	Liberal	Kennedy Macdonald	3,863	29.03
	Liberal	Francis Fraser	3,729	28.02
	Independent	Harry Vogel	3,606	27.10
	Liberal	William McLean	3,438	25.84
	Liberal	George Fisher	2,385	17.92
	Independent	Thomas Dwan	1,157	8.70
	Independent	William Travers	1,093	8.21
Majority			977
Informal votes			147
Total votes			36,249
Turnout			13,306	80.66
Registered electors			16,497

1896 New Zealand general election: Wellington^[8]^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal–Labour	John Hutcheson	6,410	48.68
	Independent	Robert Stout	6,305	47.88
	Liberal	George Fisher	5,858	44.49
	Conservative	Arthur Atkinson	5,830	44.27
	Liberal	Charles Wilson	5,569	42.29
	Conservative	Andrew Agnew Stuart Menteath	5,559	42.22
	Liberal	Francis Fraser	1,811	13.75
	Independent	Justinian John Kivern Powell	185	1.40
	Liberal	Arthur Warburton	91	0.69
Majority			28	0.21
Total votes			37,618
Turnout			13,168^[11]	68.21
Registered electors			19,304^[12]

^ "Caversham Election". The Evening Post. Vol. XII, no. 45. 21 August 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
^ "Dunedin Election". North Otago Times. 21 December 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
^ "The Late Mr James Macassey". Otago Daily Times. No. 5695. 21 May 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
^ Cooper, G. S. (1884). The General Election, 1884. National Library. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^ "The General Election, 1887". National Library. 1887. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
^ "The Inangahua Election". The Star. No. 4666. 9 June 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ "Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1894 Session I, H-19". 1893 New Zealand general election. 1894. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
^ "A Mistake in the Wellington Vote". The Evening Post. 10 December 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^ "Page 1 Advertisements Column 3". The Evening Post. 28 November 1896. p. 1. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^ "List of Candidates". Hawera & Normanby Star. Vol. XXXIII, no. 3411. 2 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^ "The Wellington Election". Clutha Leader. 28 July 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
^ McRobie 1989, p. 63.

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.