Electoral results for the district of Sydney City

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Sydney City, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1950 until 1971 and from 1988 until 1999. [1] [2] [3]

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ElectionMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
1856   Henry Parkes None  James Wilshire None  Robert Campbell None  Charles Cowper None
Sep 1856 by
Dec 1856 by   William Dalley None
1858   Robert Tooth None  George Thornton None

Election results

1858

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1858 New South Wales colonial election § Sydney City.[ edit ]
1858 New South Wales colonial election: Sydney City
15 January  [4]
CandidateVotes%
George Thornton (elected 1)3,66621.4
Robert Tooth (elected 2)2,41114.1
Robert Campbell (re-elected 3)2,15812.6
Charles Cowper (re-elected 4)2,09912.2
William Dalley (defeated)2,03511.9
Frank Fowler 1,76210.3
James Wilshire (defeated)1,55718.7
William Allen 1,4748.6
Total formal votes17,164100.0
Informal votes00.0
Turnout 17,16439.7
Robert Tooth had unsuccessfully contested Sydney Hamlets.

December 1856 by-election

This section is an excerpt from December 1856 Sydney City colonial by-election § Result.[ edit ]
1856 Sydney City by-election
Tuesday 30 December  [5]
CandidateVotes%
William Dalley (elected)1,99857.2
John Fairfax 1,49342.8
Total formal votes3,491100.0
Informal votes00
Turnout 3,49125.2
The by-election was caused by the resignation of Henry Parkes due to financial difficulties with his newspaper The Empire. [5]

September 1856 by-election

This section is an excerpt from September 1856 Sydney City colonial by-election § Result.[ edit ]
1856 Sydney City by-election
Thursday 4 September  [6]
CandidateVotes%
Charles Cowper (re-elected 1)1,99345.6
Robert Campbell (re-elected 2)1,83141.9
Thomas Duigan54212.4
Total formal votes4,366100.0
Informal votes00.0
Turnout 2,18315.7
Charles Cowper and Robert Campbell were appointed in the first Cowper ministry. [6]

1856

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1856 New South Wales colonial election § Sydney City.[ edit ]
1856 New South Wales colonial election: Sydney City   [7] [8]
CandidateVotes%
Charles Cowper (elected 1)3,07320.5
Henry Parkes (elected 2)3,05720.4
Robert Campbell (elected 3)3,04120.33
James Wilshire (elected 4)2,90119.4
John Plunkett 2,80018.7
Thomas Duigan890.6
Total formal votes14,961100.0
Informal votes00.0
Turnout 6,00743.3

Cowper, Parkes, Campbell and Wilshire had been endorsed as a group by a public meeting to be elected to the four vacancies. [9] Parkes, Campbell and Wilshire all represented City of Sydney in the Legislative Council while Cowper represented County of Durham. There were no political parties at the time and the combination of candidates, pejoratively referred to by Plunkett as "The Bunch", was controversial. [10] Plunket, who had been an appointed member of the Council, campaigned on the slogan "plump for Plunket", [11] a reference to the voting practice of voting for a single candidate rather than the four candidates an elector was entitled to vote for. [12]

After his defeat in this seat, Plunkett unsuccessfully contested North Eastern Boroughs, before being elected for both Argyle and Bathurst (County). Plunket chose to represent Argyle and resigned as member for Bathurst (County).

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References

  1. ↑ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Sydney City". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Green, Antony. "1858 Sydney City". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  5. 1 2 Green, Antony. "Sydney City by-election 2 1856". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  6. 1 2 Green, Antony. "1856 Sydney City by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  7. ↑ Green, Antony. "1856 Sydney City". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "This city election". The Sydney Morning Herald . 24 March 1856. p. 4. Retrieved 30 September 2019– via Trove.
  9. ↑ "Public meeting: Representation of Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald . 8 January 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2019– via Trove.
  10. ↑ "Our Sydney "Bunch" of oligarchs". Freeman's Journal . 16 February 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2019– via Trove.
  11. ↑ "Representation of Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald . 22 January 1856. p. 5. Retrieved 30 September 2019– via Trove.
  12. ↑ Cochrane, Peter (1 January 2006). Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy. Melbourne Univ. Publishing. ISBN   9780522853315.
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