West Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district, Ultimo and Pyrmont, bordered by George Street, Broadway, Bay Street and Wentworth Park. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Gipps, Sydney-Lang, Sydney-Denison and Sydney-Pyrmont.[1][2][3]
Members for West Sydney
[edit]Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | ||||
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John Lang | None | 1859–1869 | James Pemell | None | 1859–1860 | John Plunkett | None | 1859–1860 | Thomas Broughton | None | 1859–1860 | ||||
William Windeyer | None | 1860–1862 | Daniel Dalgleish | None | 1860–1864 | William Love | None | 1860–1864 | |||||||
Geoffrey Eagar | None | 1863–1864 | |||||||||||||
John Darvall | None | 1864–1865 | John Robertson | None | 1864–1866 | Samuel Joseph | None | 1864–1868 | |||||||
Geoffrey Eagar | None | 1865–1869 | |||||||||||||
William Windeyer | None | 1866–1872 | |||||||||||||
William Campbell | None | 1868–1869 | |||||||||||||
William Speer | None | 1869–1872 | John Robertson | None | 1869–1877 | Joseph Wearne | None | 1869–1874 | |||||||
Joseph Raphael | None | 1872–1874 | John Booth | None | 1872–1874 | ||||||||||
Henry Dangar | None | 1874–1877 | Angus Cameron | None | 1874–1885 | George Dibbs | None | 1874–1877 | |||||||
John Harris | None | 1877–1880 | Daniel O'Connor | None | 1877–1887 | James Merriman | None | 1877–1880 | |||||||
William Martin | None | 1880–1882 | Francis Abigail | None | 1880–1887 | ||||||||||
George Merriman | None | 1882–1885 | |||||||||||||
John Young | None | 1885–1887 | Alexander Kethel | None | 1885–1887 | ||||||||||
George Merriman | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | Free Trade | 1887–1891 | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | Free Trade | 1887–1891 | |||||||
Alfred Lamb | Free Trade | 1889–1890 | Thomas Playfair | Free Trade | 1889–1891 | ||||||||||
Adolphus Taylor | Independent | 1890–1891 | |||||||||||||
Thomas Davis | Labor | 1891–1894 | George Black | Labor | 1891–1894 | Andrew Kelly | Labor | 1891–1894 | Jack FitzGerald | Labor | 1891–1894 |
Election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack FitzGerald (elected 1) | 4,174 | 15.8 | ||
Labour | George Black (elected 2) | 4,078 | 15.4 | ||
Labour | Andrew Kelly (elected 3) | 3,798 | 14.3 | ||
Labour | Thomas Davis (elected 4) | 2,730 | 10.3 | ||
Protectionist | John Young | 2,601 | 9.8 | ||
Free Trade | Thomas Playfair (defeated) | 2,535 | 9.6 | ||
Free Trade | Daniel O'Connor (defeated) | 2,493 | 9.4 | ||
Free Trade | Francis Abigail (defeated) | 2,326 | 8.8 | ||
Free Trade | Frederick Woolcott-Waley | 1,745 | 6.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 26,480 | 99.8 | |||
Informal votes | 66 | 0.3 | |||
Turnout | 7,428 | 68.6 | |||
Labour gain 3 from Free Trade and gain 1 from Independent |
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of West Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1891 West Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.