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Northumberland Boroughs was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1856 to 1859, including the towns of Morpeth, East Maitland, and West Maitland, and named after Northumberland County. It elected two members simultaneously, with voters casting two votes and the first two candidates being elected.
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The 1843 New South Wales colonial election, the first in the colony, was held between 15 June and 3 July 1843, to elect 24 members from 18 electoral districts. Each district returned 1 member except for Port Phillip which returned 5 members while County of Cumberland, and Town of Sydney returned 2 each.
The 1848 New South Wales colonial election was held between 29 July and 2 August. No candidates were nominated for Port Phillip as a result of the campaign for independence from New South Wales, and a fresh writ was issued for an election on 3 October.
The Electoral district of County of Northumberland and from 1851, Northumberland and Hunter, was an electorate of the partially elected New South Wales Legislative Council, created for the first elections for the Council in 1843. The County of Northumberland was bounded by the part of the Hawkesbury River to the south, the Macdonald River to the south-west, and the Hunter River to the north, however the electoral district did not include the towns of East Maitland, West Maitland and Newcastle which made up the district of Northumberland Boroughs. Polling took place at Gosford, Newcastle, East Maitland, Wollombi, Singleton and Watson's on the Macdonald River. The County of Hunter was added to the district with the expansion of the Council in 1851 and elected two members.
The Electoral district of Northumberland Boroughs was an electorate of the partially elected New South Wales Legislative Council, created for the first elections for the Council in 1843. From 1843 until 1851 the electorate covered the major towns or boroughs of Northumberland County, East Maitland, West Maitland and Newcastle, and polling took place at East Maitland, West Maitland and Newcastle. Morpeth was added to the electorate from 1851 while Newcastle was removed from the electorate to form, with Raymond Terrace, the North Eastern Boroughs. The rest of Northumberland County was covered by the County of Northumberland from 1843 until 1951, and Counties of Northumberland and Hunter from 1851 until 1856.
The 1851 New South Wales colonial election, was held between 12 and 25 September. It involved a re-distribution of electorates as a result of the separation of Victoria, which had 6 seats in the previous council, and the expansion of the council from 24 elected members to 36 elected members representing 31 electorates. The major changes were the addition of 8 pastoral districts and the separate representation for the northern regions of what would later become Queensland. These had previously been a part of the single district of Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley and from 1851 were covered by the separate districts of Stanley, Stanley Boroughs and the pastoral districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa. The other 8 additional seats were distributed among the nineteen counties of New South Wales.
A by-election was to be held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland Boroughs on 6 November 1857 because of the death of Bob Nichols.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cumberland South Riding in November 1856 because the Qualifications Committee declared the August by-election which returned Ryan Brenan was invalid as no poll had been conducted at Canterbury. Brenan was persuaded not to stand to allow Stuart Donaldson to regain a seat, having lost Sydney Hamlets in a ministerial by-election. A committee had been formed to secure the return of Augustus Morris, however it is unclear as to why he was not nominated.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Gwydir on 29 June and 20 July 1865 as a result of the Committee on Elections and Qualifications declaring that the seat of Thomas Dangar was vacant because he had an office of profit under the Crown.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland on 30 April 1880 because Thomas Hungerford resigned attend to personal business matters.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland on 1868 because Atkinson Tighe had been appointed Postmaster-General in the second Martin ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Morpeth on 18 September 1862 because David Buchanan was insolvent and resigned his seat. Buchanan had unsuccessfully sued the Sydney Morning Herald for libel and was required to pay their legal costs. He was unable to pay and declared himself bankrupt.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland on 23 December 1862 because Thomas Lewis resigned, as he was unable to afford to attend to the Legislative Assembly at a time when members were not paid. He accepted an appointment as an inspector of coal fields in February 1863.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Morpeth on 7 August 1860 because Edward Close resigned. Close later stated that he resigned because it had been a lengthy session of parliament, marked by a contest for power between Charles Cowper, William Forster and John Robertson in which nothing was done.
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- ↑ Green, Antony. "1856 Northumberland Boroughs". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- 1 2 "Representation of the Northumberland Boroughs". The Sydney Morning Herald . 28 March 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "The late election". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . 26 July 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Northumberland Boroughs: Mr Weekes at Morpeth". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . 23 January 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ Close, Edward (29 July 1856). "To the editors of the Maitland Mercury". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- 1 2 3 Green, Antony. "1856 Northumberland Boroughs re-count". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ↑ "The petition against Mr Russell: to the independent electors of the Northumberland Boroughs". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . 24 July 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Northumberland Boroughs petition". New South Wales Government Gazette (64). 29 April 1856. p. 1257. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "The Northumberland Boroughs election". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . 26 June 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Report from the Committee of Elections and Qualifications, in the matter of the petition against the election and return of Bourn Russell Esq". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser . 16 August 1856. p. 6 (Supplement to the Maitland Mercury). Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Committee of Elections and Qualifications". The Empire . 6 August 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020– via Trove.
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