Newtown was an electoral district

New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts

The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is elected from 93 single-member electorates called districts.- Current districts :This is a list of districts for the 2011 state election.* Albury* Auburn* Ballina...

 of the Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, originally created in 1859, and named after and including the Sydney

Sydney

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 suburb of Newtown

Newtown, New South Wales

Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Marrickville Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia....

. It elected one member from 1859 to 1880, two members from 1880 to 1885, three members from 1885 to 1891 and four members from 1891 to 1894. With the abolition of multi-member constituencies in 1894, it was replaced by Newtown-Camperdown

Electoral district of Newtown-Camperdown

Newtown-Camperdown was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Newtown and named after and including the inner Sydney of Camperdown. It was partly replaced by Camperdown in...

, Newtown-Erskine

Electoral district of Newtown-Erskine

Newtown-Erskine was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Newtown and named after the inner Sydney suburb of Erskineville or the Reverend George Erskine whom it was named after...

, Newtown-St Peters

Electoral district of Newtown-St Peters

Newtown-St Peters was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Newtown and named after the inner Sydney suburb of St Peters. Along with Newtown-Erskine, it was partly replaced by a...

 and Marrickville

Electoral district of Marrickville

Marrickville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a 13.47 km² urban electorate in Sydney's inner west, centred on the suburb of Marrickville from which it takes its name...

. In 1904 with the downsizing of the Assembly after Federation

Federation of Australia

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, Newtown-Camperdown, Newtown-Erskine and Newtown-St Peters were replaced by a recreated Newtown and Camperdown

Electoral district of Camperdown

Camperdown was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904 with the division of the district of Newtown-Camperdown and named after and including the inner Sydney of Camperdown...

. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

, it was absorbed into Botany

Electoral district of Botany

Botany was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1894, partly replacing Redfern, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Botany...

. Newtown was recreated in 1927 and combined with part of Annandale

Electoral district of Annandale

Annandale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894, with the abolition of multi-member constituencies, from part of Balmain, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Annandale. With the introduction of proportional...

 and renamed Newtown-Annandale

Electoral district of Newtown-Annandale

Newtown-Annandale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was created in 1950, mainly succeeding Newtown and Annandale. It was abolished in 1953.-Members for Newtown-Annandale:...

 in 1950.

Members for Newtown

Single-member (1859–1880)
Member		Party	Term
	Alexander McArthur Alexander McArthur Alexander McArthur was an Australian and British businessman and politician in both countries.McArthur was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of John McArthur, a Wesleyan minister, and his wife Sarah, née Finlay. In 1830 he was apprenticed to a merchant in Omagh...	None	1859–1861
	Thomas Holt	None	1861–1864
	Stephen Brown	None	1864–1880

Two members (1880–1885)

Member

Party

Term

William Foster

None

1880–1882

Joseph Mitchell

None

1881–1882

Henry Copeland

None

1882–1883

Frederick Gibbes

None

1882–1885

Joseph Mitchell

None

1883–1885

Three members (1885–1891)
Member		Party	Term	|Member	Party	Term
	James Smith James Smith (New South Wales politician) James Edward Smith was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1928 until 1930. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....	None	1885–1887		Frederick Gibbes	None	1885–1888		William Foster	None	1885–1888
	Nicholas Hawken	None	1887–1891			Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...	1887–1888			Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...	1887–1888
					Joseph Mitchell	Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...	1888–1889		Joseph Abbott	Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...	1888–1891
					Edmund Molesworth	None	1889–1891

Four members (1891–1894)

Member

Party

Term

|Member

Party

Term

Francis Cotton Francis Cotton Francis Cotton was an Australian politician.Born in Adelaide to grocer Richard Cotton and Esther Ann Payne, he was educated privately and worked on a cattle station in Port Lincoln before arriving in New South Wales in 1875. He married Evangeline Mary Geake Lake on 1 January 1883 at Forbes; they...

Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

1891–1894

Edmund Molesworth

Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

1891–1894

Joseph Abbott

Free Trade Free Trade Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

1891–1894

John Hindle John Hindle John Hindle was an Australian politician.Born at Rishton in Lancashire to William Hindle and Elizabeth Woolstonecraft, he received a limited education and began working in a cotton factory at the age of eleven. After arriving in Melbourne in 1871, he established his own business in 1878...

Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

1891–1894

Single-member (1904–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Robert Hollis	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1904–1917
	Frank Burke	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1917–1920
Single-member (1927–1950)
Member		Party	Term
	Frank Burke	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1927–1939
		Industrial Labor Industrial Labor Party The Industrial Labor Party or Heffron Labor Party was a political party active in New South Wales, Australia, between 1938 and 1939. It was a splinter group of the Australian Labor Party and was formed by Bob Heffron after he and Carlo Lazzarini attempted to depose the party leader Jack Lang...	1939–1939
		Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1939–1944
	Lilian Fowler Lilian Fowler Elizabeth Lilian Maud Fowler was an Australian politician, and Australia's first female mayor.-Early life:...	Lang Labor Lang Labor Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...	1944–1950