Hastings was an electoral district

New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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 of the Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

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n state of New South Wales

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 from 1859 to 1880. It was replaced by Hastings and Manning

Electoral district of Hastings and Manning

Hastings and Manning was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1880 to 1894. Created to succeed Hastings, it elected two members with voters casting two votes and the two leading candidates being elected...

 from 1880 to 1894, which elected two members with voters casting two votes and the two leading candidates being elected. In 1894 it was divided between the single-member electoral district of Hastings and Macleay

Electoral district of Hastings and Macleay

Hastings and Macleay was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1920. It was created with the division of the two-member electorate of Hastings and Manning. In 1920 proportional representation was introduced and Hastings and Macleay...

 and Manning

Electoral district of Manning

Manning was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904 and from 1988 to 1991 in the Manning River area.-Members for Manning:...

. In 1920 proportional representation

Proportional representation

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 was introduced and Hastings and Macleay was absorbed into the new four-member district of Oxley. The electorate was named after the Hastings

Hastings River

The Hastings River is a large river on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales that empties into the Tasman Sea, a branch of the South Pacific Ocean, at Port Macquarie....

, the alluvial

Alluvium

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 valleys of which contained most of its population.

Members for Hastings

Member		Party	Term
	Henry Flett	None	1859—1864
	William Forster	None	1864—1869
	Horace Dean Horace Dean Horace Dean was an American, who practiced as a doctor in Australia and was a journalist and political candidate at elections in South Australia and New South Wales.Dean was born in Chicago...	None	1869—1870
	Robert Smith	None	1870—1880