Electoral district of Wentworth - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Wentworth was a former electoral district

New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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for the Legislative Assembly

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in the Australia

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established in 1880 and partly replacing Lachlan

Electoral district of Lachlan

Lachlan was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. During the first two Parliaments , there was an electorate in the same area called Lachlan and Lower Darling, named after the Lachlan and Darling Rivers. Lachlan was created in 1859 and...

and named after and including Wentworth

Wentworth, New South Wales

Wentworth is a small border town in the far south west of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the confluence of Australia's two most important rivers, the Darling and the Murray, the latter forming the border with the state of Victoria to the south. The border with the state of...

. From 1885 until the creation of Sturt in 1889, it elected two members. It was abolished in 1904, with the downsizing of Parliament after Federation

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Members for Wentworth

Single-member (1880—1885)
Member		Party	Term
	William Brodribb	None	1880–1881
	Edward Quin Edward Quin Edward Quin , journalist, born in Dublin, seems to have spent some years in France, where he taught pugilism. Ultimately he followed the career of a journalist in London. About 1803 he started The Traveller, a journal intended to represent the commercial travellers; it was one of the earliest of...	None	1881–1885

Two members (1885—1889)
Member		Party	Term	Edward Quin Edward Quin Edward Quin , journalist, born in Dublin, seems to have spent some years in France, where he taught pugilism. Ultimately he followed the career of a journalist in London. About 1803 he started The Traveller, a journal intended to represent the commercial travellers; it was one of the earliest of...	None	1885–1887		William Macgregor	None	1885–1887
	Joseph Abbott Joseph Palmer Abbott Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, KB, KCMG was an Australian politician and solicitor.-Early life:Joseph Palmer Abbott was born on 29 September 1842 at Muswellbrook, New South Wales, to John Kingsmill Abbott, a squatter, and his wife Frances Amanda, née Brady...	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...	1887–1889		Independent Free Trade 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...	1887–1887		William Macgregor
			1887–1889		Thomas Browne	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...	1887–1889

Single-member (1889—1894)
Member		Party	Term
	Joseph Abbott Joseph Palmer Abbott Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, KB, KCMG was an Australian politician and solicitor.-Early life:Joseph Palmer Abbott was born on 29 September 1842 at Muswellbrook, New South Wales, to John Kingsmill Abbott, a squatter, and his wife Frances Amanda, née Brady...	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...	1889–1901
		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...	1891–1894
		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...	1894–1901
	Robert Scobie	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...	1901–1904

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