Electoral district of West Sydney
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West Sydney was an electoral district
for the Legislative Assembly
in the Australia
n State of New South Wales
created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney
, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district
, Ultimo
and Pyrmont
, bordered by George Street
, Broadway
, Bay Street and Wentworth Park. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Gipps
, Sydney-Lang
, Sydney-Denison
and Sydney-Pyrmont
.
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
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
in the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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...
created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney
Electoral district of Sydney
Sydney is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Inner Sydney. It includes the commercial centre of the Sydney CBD; the suburbs and localities of Barangaroo, Broadway, Chinatown, Chippendale, Darling Harbour, Dawes Point, Elizabeth Bay,...
, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district
Sydney central business district
The Sydney central business district is the main commercial centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It extends southwards for about 3 kilometres from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. Its north–south axis runs from Circular Quay in the north to Central railway station in...
, Ultimo
Ultimo, New South Wales
Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ultimo is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney....
and Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
, bordered by George Street
George Street, Sydney
George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...
, Broadway
Broadway, New South Wales
Broadway is a road in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The road constitutes the border between the suburbs of Ultimo and Chippendale . Broadway is also an urban locality....
, Bay Street and Wentworth Park. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Gipps
Electoral district of Sydney-Gipps
Sydney-Gipps was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 in inner Sydney, replacing part of the former multi-member electorate of West Sydney, and named after Governor George Gipps. It included the Rocks, west of George Street...
, Sydney-Lang
Electoral district of Sydney-Lang
Sydney-Lang was a former electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 from part of the electoral district of West Sydney in inner Sydney and named after Presbyterian clergyman, writer, politician and activist John Dunmore Lang...
, Sydney-Denison
Electoral district of Sydney-Denison
Sydney-Denison was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 from part of the electoral district of West Sydney in the Ultimo area and named after Governor Denison. It was abolished in 1904 and absorbed into the electoral district...
and Sydney-Pyrmont
Electoral district of Sydney-Pyrmont
Sydney-Pyrmont was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894, partly replacing the multi-member electorate of West Sydney and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont. In 1904, it changed its name to Pyrmont and it...
.
Members for West Sydney
Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Lang John Dunmore Lang John Dunmore Lang , Australian Presbyterian clergyman, writer, politician and activist, was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism.-Background and Family:... |
None | 1859–1869 | James Pemell | None | 1859–1860 | John Plunkett John Plunkett John Hubert Plunkett was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly.-Early life:... |
None | 1859–1860 | Thomas Broughton | None | 1859–1860 | ||||
William Windeyer William Charles Windeyer Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a... |
None | 1860–1862 | Daniel Dalgleish | None | 1860–1864 | William Love William Love (Australian politician) William Love MLA was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney from 1860 to 1864. Love served as Chairman of the Sydney Revenues Improvement Bill Committee.-Biography:... |
None | 1860–1864 | |||||||
Geoffrey Eagar Geoffrey Eagar Geoffrey Eagar was an accountant and Treasurer of the Government of New South Wales, Australia.Eagar was born in Sydney, son of Edward, an emancipated convict who helped found the Westpac Bank, then known as the Bank of New South Wales. Edward left Australia to take a legal battle over the rights... |
None | 1863–1864 | |||||||||||||
John Darvall John Darvall John Darvall was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865... |
None | 1864–1865 | John Robertson | None | 1864–1866 | Samuel Joseph | None | 1864–1868 | |||||||
Geoffrey Eagar Geoffrey Eagar Geoffrey Eagar was an accountant and Treasurer of the Government of New South Wales, Australia.Eagar was born in Sydney, son of Edward, an emancipated convict who helped found the Westpac Bank, then known as the Bank of New South Wales. Edward left Australia to take a legal battle over the rights... |
None | 1865–1869 | |||||||||||||
William Windeyer William Charles Windeyer Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a... |
None | 1866–1872 | |||||||||||||
William Campbell | None | 1868–1869 | |||||||||||||
William Speer | None | 1869–1872 | John Robertson | None | 1869–1874 | Joseph Wearne | None | 1869–1874 | |||||||
Joseph Raphael | None | 1872–1874 | John Booth | None | 1872–1877 | ||||||||||
Henry Dangar | None | 1874–1877 | Angus Cameron | None | 1874–1885 | George Dibbs George Dibbs Sir George Richard Dibbs KCMG was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales on three occasions.-Early years:Dibbs was born in Sydney, son of Captain John Dibbs, who disappeared in the same year... |
None | 1874–1877 | |||||||
John Harris | None | 1877–1880 | Daniel O'Connor | None | 1877–1887 | James Merriman | None | 1877–1880 | |||||||
William Martin | None | 1880–1882 | Francis Abigail Francis Abigail Francis Abigail was politician and Justice of the Peace from New South Wales. He was the son of William Abigail. In 1860, he immigrated to Sydney and was married the following year.... |
None | 1880–1887 | ||||||||||
George Merriman | None | 1882–1887 | |||||||||||||
John Young | None | 1885–1887 | Alexander Kethel | None | 1885–1887 | ||||||||||
George Merriman | 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... |
1887–1889 | 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... |
1887–1889 | 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... |
1887–1891 | 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... |
1887–1891 | |||||||
Alfred Lamb | 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... |
1889–1890 | Thomas Playfair | 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... |
1889–1891 | ||||||||||
Adolphus Taylor Adolphus Taylor Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:... |
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... |
1890–1891 | |||||||||||||
Thomas Davis | 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 | George Black | 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 | Andrew Kelly | 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 | John FitzGerald John Daniel FitzGerald John Daniel FitzGerald was an Australian politician.Born in Shellharbour to schoolteacher John Daniel FitzGerald and Mary Ann Cullen, he attended Shellharbour Public School, Fort Street Public School and St Mary's Cathedral School in Sydney before being apprenticed as a compositor in Bathurst... |
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 |