Misplaced Pages

Electoral district of Sydney-Gipps

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Former state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

Sydney-Gipps was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 in inner Sydney, replacing part of the former multi-member electorate of West Sydney, and named after Governor George Gipps. It included the Rocks, west of George Street and generally north of Margaret Street. It was abolished in 1904 and absorbed into Darling Harbour.

Members for Sydney-Gipps

Member Party Term
  George Black Independent Labour 1894–1895
  Labour 1895–1898
  Wilfred Spruson National Federal 1898–1901
  William Daley Labor 1901–1904

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Sydney-Gipps This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § Sydney-Gipps.
1901 New South Wales state election: Sydney-Gipps 
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Daley 981 53.5 +4.5
Ind. Progressive Wilfred Spruson 655 35.7 −14.6
Liberal Reform Elliot Johnson 197 10.8
Total formal votes 1,833 98.9 −0.4
Informal votes 21 1.1 +0.4
Turnout 1,854 64.4 +4.8
Labour gain from Progressive  

References

  1. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  2. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Sydney-Gipps". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  4. "Maps and sketches of proposed Electoral Districts". New South Wales Government Gazette. 23 August 1893. p. 6681. Retrieved 27 October 2020 – via Trove.
  5. "Proclamation: names and boundaries of electoral districts". New South Wales Government Gazette. 5 October 1893. p. 7752. Retrieved 27 October 2020 – via Trove.
  6. Green, Antony. "1901 Sydney-Gipps". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
Electoral districts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Labor (45)
Coalition (35)
Liberal (24)
National (11)
Greens (3)
Independent (10)
Former electoral districts of New South Wales
Members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Council
Stub icon

This New South Wales government-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Electoral district of Sydney-Gipps Add topic