Electoral district of Burrangong

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Burrangong was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90. [1] It was named after Burrangong station, the first squatting run in the Young area and consisted of parts of the abolished districts of Boorowa, Grenfell and Young. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed along with Yass into Cootamundra. [2]

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Members for Burrangong

MemberPartyPeriod
  George Burgess Labor 1904–1916
  Nationalist 1916–1917
  Peter Loughlin Labor 1917–1920

Election results

1917 New South Wales state election: Burrangong [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Peter Loughlin 3,92551.1+0.8
Nationalist George Burgess 3,76048.9+48.9
Total formal votes7,68599.0+1.4
Informal votes801.0-1.4
Turnout 7,76566.3-1.2
Labor hold Swing +0.8
The sitting member George Burgess was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split over conscription. [4]

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References

  1. "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
  2. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Burrangong". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. Green, Antony. "1917 Burrangong". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. "PLL expulsions". The Sydney Morning Herald . 7 November 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 7 May 2020 via Trove.