He comfortably held his seat over subsequent elections until his expulsion from the ALP over his support for conscription in September 1916 during the 1916 Labor split.

[4] In February 1917, along with the other former Labor MPs expelled during the split, Carr joined the newly formed pro-conscription Nationalist Party of Australia.

In one of the closest polling results in Australian electoral history, Carr lost the 1917 election by nine votes.

[5] After the loss of his federal seat, Carr returned to journalism and bought a Hawkesbury based newspaper.

He then returned to politics when he successfully stood as the Nationalist candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cumberland in 1920.