Electoral district of Central Cumberland
Appearance
Central Cumberland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1859 to 1894, in Cumberland County, which includes Sydney, although the then built-up areas were in other electorates. It elected two members simultaneously from 1859 to 1885, three members from 1885 to 1889 and four members from 1889 to 1894, with voters casting a vote for each vacancy. In 1894, multi-member electorates were abolished and replaced by single-member electorates.[1][2][3]
Members for Central Cumberland
[edit]Two members (1859–1885) | |||||||||||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||||||||||
John Laycock | None | 1859–1864 | James Atkinson | None | 1859–1863 | ||||||||||
Allan Macpherson | None | 1863–1868 | |||||||||||||
John Hay | None | 1864–1867 | |||||||||||||
John Lackey | None | 1867–1885 | |||||||||||||
Samuel Lyons | None | 1868–1869 | |||||||||||||
Edward Flood | None | 1869–1872 | |||||||||||||
John Hurley | None | 1872–1874 | |||||||||||||
Joseph Wearne | None | 1875–1875 | |||||||||||||
William Long | None | 1875–1877 | |||||||||||||
Andrew McCulloch | None | 1877–1885 | |||||||||||||
Varney Parkes | None | 1885 | |||||||||||||
Three members (1885–1889) | |||||||||||||||
Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||||||
Varney Parkes | None | 1885–1887 | Andrew McCulloch | None | 1885–1887 | Nathaniel Bull | None | 1885–1887 | |||||||
Free Trade | 1887–1888 | Free Trade | 1887–1888 | Frank Farnell | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | |||||||||
John Nobbs | Free Trade | 1888–1889 | David Buchanan | Protectionist | 1888–1889 | ||||||||||
Four members (1889–1894) | |||||||||||||||
Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||||
John Nobbs | Free Trade | 1889–1893 | Frank Farnell | Free Trade | 1889–1894 | Robert Ritchie | Free Trade | 1889–1891 | John Linsley | Free Trade | 1889–1889 | ||||
David Dale | Free Trade | 1889–1894 | |||||||||||||
Jacob Garrard | Free Trade | 1891–1894 | |||||||||||||
George McCredie | Free Trade | 1893–1894 |
Election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Free Trade | Frank Farnell (re-elected 1) | 2,850 | 15.8 | ||
Free Trade | Robert Ritchie (re-elected 2) | 2,491 | 13.8 | ||
Free Trade | John Nobbs (re-elected 3) | 2,435 | 13.5 | ||
Free Trade | David Dale (re-elected 4) | 1,978 | 11.0 | ||
Labour | John Gannon | 1,614 | 9.0 | ||
Protectionist | Cyrus Fuller | 1,449 | 8.0 | ||
Labour | John Marshall | 1,389 | 7.7 | ||
Protectionist | Walter Airey | 1,092 | 6.1 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | Thomas Taylor | 1,016 | 5.6 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | John Forsyth | 964 | 5.4 | ||
Ind. Free Trade | John Ferguson | 740 | 4.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 18,018 | 99.1 | |||
Informal votes | 163 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 5,744 | 57.9 | |||
Free Trade hold 4 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Central Cumberland 1859-1894". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1891 Central Cumberland". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 April 2020.