Electoral district of Macquarie

Last updated

Macquarie, until 1910 The Macquarie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 and named after the Macquarie River. It was re-created in 1904, retaining nothing but the name, then abolished in 1920. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The district created in 1894 was at the upper reaches of the Macquarie River, from Oberon to Sofala, [4] and was divided between Bathurst Blayney and Hartley. There was a significant re-distribution of electorates in 1904 as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90. [5] The member for The Macquarie from 1895 to 1904 was William Hurley (Progressive) who did not contest the 1904 election as he was appointed to the Legislative Council. [6]

The district re-created in 1904 consisted of parts of the abolished seats of Dubbo and Wellington. [7] [8] The member for Dubbo was Simeon Phillips (Liberal Reform) unsuccessfully contested the election for The Macquarie. [9] The member for Wellington was John Haynes (Liberal Reform) who unsuccessfully contested the election for Mudgee. [10]

Members for Macquarie

MemberPartyPeriod
  James Tonkin Free Trade 1894–1895
  William Hurley Protectionist 1895–1901
  Progressive 1901–1904
  Thomas Thrower Labor 1904–1907
  Charles Barton Liberal Reform]1907–1910
  Thomas Thrower Labor 1910–1917
  Patrick McGirr Labor 1917–1920

Election results

This section is an excerpt from 1917 Macquarie state by-election § Results.[ edit ]
1917 Macquarie by-election
Saturday 28 July  [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Patrick McGirr 3,52150.8-0.1
Nationalist Murdock McLeod3,23246.6-2.6
Australian Producers Co-Operative Party Frank Foster 1822.6
Total formal votes6,93599.5+0.5
Informal votes340.5-0.5
Turnout 6,96965.1  [lower-alpha 1] -7.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
Thomas Thrower (Labor) died. [11]

Notes

  1. ↑ based on an electoral roll of 10,704 at the 1917 state election. [12]

Related Research Articles

Cowra was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, including the town of Cowra.

Castlereagh, or The Castlereagh until 1910, was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales originally 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. It consisted of the abolished seat of Coonamble and part of the abolished seat of Dubbo and was named after the Castlereagh River. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Wammerawa, along with Mudgee and Liverpool Plains. It was recreated in 1927 and abolished in 1991, replaced by Barwon in the north-west, including the towns of Narrabri and Gilgandra, and by Upper Hunter in the south-east, including the town of Mudgee.

Rylstone was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, named after and including the town of Rylstone. The district was created when multi-member constituencies were abolished in 1894, and comprised the eastern part of Mudgee and the western part of The Upper Hunter. The district was abolished in 1904 as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which reduced the number of members of the Legislative Assembly from 125 to 90, and was divided between Hartley, Singleton and the Upper Hunter.

Wellington was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1859 and named after and including Wellington. It replaced part of Wellington (County). It was abolished in 1904 due to the 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. The district was largely replaced by an expanded The Macquarie, while parts also went to Liverpool Plains and Mudgee.

Belmore was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904 in inner Sydney from Sydney-Belmore and parts of the abolished seats of Sydney-Cook and Sydney-Phillip. It was named after Governor Belmore. It was originally in northern Surry Hills bounded by George Street and the Darling Harbour railway line in the west, Cleveland Street in the south, Liverpool Street, Oxford Street in the north and Riley Street, Wilton Street and Waterloo streets in the east. In 1913 it absorbed part of the abolished seat of Pyrmont. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Sydney.

Wollongong, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has had three incarnations, the first from 1904 to 1920, the second from 1927 to 1930, and the third from 1968 to the present.

Thomas Henry Thrower was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1907 and 1910 to 1917, representing the electorate of Macquarie.

Castlereagh, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnations, from 1904 until 1920 and from 1927 until 1991.

The 1904 New South Wales state election involved 90 electoral districts returning one member each. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. There were two significant changes from the 1901 election, the first was that women were given the right to vote, which saw an increase in the number of enrolled voters from 345,500 in 1901, to 689,490 in 1904. The second was that as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum, the number of members of the Legislative Assembly was reduced from 125 to 90. The combined effect of the changes meant that the average number of enrolled voters per electorate went from 2,764, to 7,661, an increase of 277%. Leichhardt was the only district that was not substantially changed, while The Macquarie and The Murray districts retained nothing but the name.

Mudgee, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales had two incarnation, from 1859 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1968.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 6 January 1879 because of the resignation of Sir John Robertson who was then appointed to the Legislative Council, to facilitate the coalition of his supporters and those of Sir Henry Parkes to form an effective government.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 8 September 1873 because Joseph Innes was appointed to the Legislative Council.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Liverpool Plains on 16 August 1911 because of the resignation of Henry Horne (Labor) because he disagreed with legislation introduced by the Labor Secretary for Lands Niels Nielsen.

The 1917 Macquarie state by-election was held for the New South Wales state electoral district of Macquarie on 28 July 1917. The by-election was triggered by the death of Australian Labor Party MP Thomas Thrower, who had died only three months after being re-elected at the 1917 state election.

Blayney, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1904 and abolished in 1913.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Bogan on 31 May 1892 because of the death of George Cass (Protectionist).

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of East Macquarie on 1 February 1878 because of the resignation of Sir John Robertson who had also been elected to Mudgee on the same day.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of East Macquarie on 19 January 1882 because Edmund Webb resigned to accept appointment to the Legislative Council.

Macquarie, until 1910 The Macquarie, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1894, re-created in 1904, retaining nothing but the name, then abolished in 1920.

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of West Sydney on 15 July 1877 because Sir John Robertson was appointed Colonial Secretary, forming the fourth Robertson ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested however on this occasion a poll was required in Central Cumberland, East Sydney, Orange and West Sydney. Each minister was comfortably re-elected. Only Camden and Goldfields South were uncontested.

References

  1. ↑ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "Proclamation: Parliamentary Electorates". New South Wales Government Gazette . 21 October 1893. p. 8268. Retrieved 12 December 2019– via Trove.
  5. ↑ "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Mr William Fergus Hurley (1848-1924)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  7. ↑ "Proposed new Electoral Districts". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales . No. 158. 18 March 1904. p. 2340. Retrieved 10 December 2019– via Trove.
  8. ↑ "Notice of final electoral districts". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales . No. 227. 22 April 1904. p. 3238. Retrieved 10 December 2019– via Trove.
  9. ↑ Green, Antony. "1904 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ↑ Green, Antony. "1904 Mudgee". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  11. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  12. ↑ Green, Antony. "1917 Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 May 2020.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.