Electoral district of Northumberland

Northumberland 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...

for the 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 1913, in the Newcastle

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area and named after Northumberland County

Northumberland County, New South Wales

Northumberland County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It included the area to the north of Broken Bay, including Lake Macquarie and Newcastle...

. It elected two members simultaneously between 1880 and 1887 and three members between 1887 and 1894. Voters cast a vote for each vacancy and the leading candidates were elected.

Members for Northumberland

Single-member (1859—1880)
Member		Party	Term
	Alexander Scott Alexander Walter Scott Alexander Walker Scott was an Australian entomologist mainly interested in butterflies.Scott was the son of Dr Helenus and Augusta Maria Scott and born in Bombay, India and was educated at Bath Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1822 and an MA in 1825...	None	1859—1860
	Thomas Lewis	None	1860—1862
	Atkinson Tighe	None	1862—1869
	William Brookes	None	1869—1872
	James Hannell James Hannell James Hannell was Newcastle's first auctioneer and later, an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. James was also Newcastle's first Mayor and later, had a dual role, as he was also first Mayor of Wickham...	None	1872—1874
	Charles Stevens	None	1874—1877
	William Turner	None	1877—1877
	Thomas Hungerford	None	1877—1880
	Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Junior was a colourful Australian politician in the late nineteenth century.The son of a Scottish cabinet maker who had been transported to Australia for stealing clothes, Melville was born in Sydney and followed his father into the furniture making business...	None	1880—1880

Two members (1880—1887)
Member		Party	Term	Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Junior was a colourful Australian politician in the late nineteenth century.The son of a Scottish cabinet maker who had been transported to Australia for stealing clothes, Melville was born in Sydney and followed his father into the furniture making business...	None	1880—1887
	Thomas Hungerford	None	1882—1882
	Atkinson Tighe	None	1882—1884
	Richard Luscombe	None	1884—1885
	Joseph Creer	None	1885—1887

Three members (1887—1894)
Member		Party	Term	\|Member	Party	Term
	Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Ninian Melville Junior was a colourful Australian politician in the late nineteenth century.The son of a Scottish cabinet maker who had been transported to Australia for stealing clothes, Melville was born in Sydney and followed his father into the furniture making business...	Protectionist Protectionist Party The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...	1887—1894		Thomas Walker Thomas Walker (Australian politician) Thomas Walker was an Australian politician, a member of two different state parliaments.Walker was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, the son of corn miller and merchant Thomas Walker, and Ellen née Eccles. He was educated at Leyland Grammar School, then worked as a schoolteacher at Preston for...	Protectionist Protectionist Party The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...	1887—1894	Joseph Creer	Independent Protectionist Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1887—1889
								Joseph Creer	Protectionist Protectionist Party The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...	1889—1891
								Alfred Edden Alfred Edden Alfred Edden was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1891 until 1920 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a foundation member of the Australian Labor Party but left the party over the question of the...	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 (1894—1913)
Member		Party	Term
	Richard Stevenson	Protectionist Protectionist Party The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...	1894—1895
	Henry Wheeler Henry Wheeler Henry James William Wheeler was an English cricketer. Wheeler's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born on Gibraltar....	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...	1895—1898
	Richard Stevenson	Protectionist Protectionist Party The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...	1898—1899
	John Norton John Norton (Australian journalist) John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1899—1904
	Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton was an Australian Labor Party politician.Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary education and then married Martha Rollings in 1889...	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—1910
	William Kearsley William Kearsley William Kearsley was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1921. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....	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...	1910—1913

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