Electoral district of South Sydney
South Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1880 to 1894, covering the southern part of the current Sydney central business district, Haymarket, Surry Hills, Moore Park and Chippendale, bordered by George Street, Broadway, City Road, Cleveland Street, South Dowling Street, Dacey Avenue, the western edge of Centennial Park, Moore Park Road, South Dowling Street, Oxford Street and Liverpool Street. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Phillip, Sydney-Belmore, Sydney-Flinders and Sydney-Cook.[1][2][3]
Elections for the district were held in the general elections of 1880,[4] 1882,[5] 1885,[6] 1887,[7] 1889,[8] and 1891.[9] There was also a by-election in 1887 as a result of Bernhard Wise accepting the office of Attorney-General in the fourth Parkes government.[10]
Members for South Sydney
Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | Member | Party | Period | ||||
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George Carter | None | 1880–1882 | John Davies | None | 1880–1882 | William Poole | None | 1880–1885 | George Withers | None | 1880–1885 | ||||
John Harris | None | 1882–1885 | Joseph Olliffe | None | 1882–1887 | ||||||||||
James Toohey | None | 1885–1887 | John Davies | None | 1885–1887 | Archibald Forsyth | None | 1885–1887 | |||||||
Protectionist | 1887–1893 | Bernhard Wise | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | George Withers | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | Alban Riley | Free Trade | 1887–1889 | |||||
William Traill | Protectionist | 1889–1894 | Walter Edmunds | Protectionist | 1889–1891 | James Martin | Free Trade | 1889–1894 | |||||||
Bernhard Wise | Free Trade | 1891–1894 | |||||||||||||
William Manning | Protectionist | 1893–1894 |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Protectionist | William Traill (re-elected 1) | 2,917 | 12.0 | ||
Free Trade | Bernhard Wise (elected 2) | 2,808 | 11.5 | ||
Free Trade | James Martin (re-elected 3) | 2,729 | 11.2 | ||
Protectionist | James Toohey (re-elected 4) | 2,662 | 10.9 | ||
Protectionist | Walter Edmunds (defeated) | 2,553 | 10.5 | ||
Protectionist | George Dibbs | 2,510 | 10.3 | ||
Free Trade | Edward Foxall | 2,237 | 9.2 | ||
Free Trade | John McDonagh | 2,136 | 8.8 | ||
Labor | Frederick Flowers | 2,017 | 8.3 | ||
Labor | W Higgs | 1,805 | 7.4 | ||
Total formal votes | 24,374 | 99.3 | |||
Informal votes | 179 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | 6,754 | 68.5 | |||
Protectionist hold 2 | |||||
Free Trade hold 1, gain 1 from Protectionist |
References
- Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 1882. p. 4. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1885. p. 9. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "South Sydney Electorate". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1889. p. 8. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "South Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 June 1891. p. 5. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- "South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 June 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
- Green, Antony. "1891 South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.