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All 125 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 63 Assembly seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results of the election, showing the winning vote share of the elected member. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1895 New South Wales colonial election was held on 24 July 1895 for all of the 125 seats in the seventeenth New South Wales Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first-past-the-post voting system. Section 23 (1) of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 conferred a right to vote on 'every male person, being a natural born [British] subject, who shall have resided or had his principal place of abode in New South Wales for a continuous period of one year'. The sixteenth parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 5 July 1895 by the Governor, Lord Hampden, on the advice of the Premier, George Reid. [1] [2]
