Electoral results for the district of Sydney City
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Election results for Sydney City, New South Wales, Australia
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]
| Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | Henry Parkes | None | James Wilshire | None | Robert Campbell | None | Charles Cowper | None | ||||
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| Dec 1856 by | William Dalley | None | ||||||||||
| 1858 | Robert Tooth | None | George Thornton | None | ||||||||
1858
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1858 New South Wales colonial election § Sydney City.[edit]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Thornton (elected 1) | 3,666 | 21.4 | |
| Robert Tooth (elected 2) | 2,411 | 14.1 | |
| Robert Campbell (re-elected 3) | 2,158 | 12.6 | |
| Charles Cowper (re-elected 4) | 2,099 | 12.2 | |
| William Dalley (defeated) | 2,035 | 11.9 | |
| Frank Fowler | 1,762 | 10.3 | |
| James Wilshire (defeated) | 1,557 | 18.7 | |
| William Allen | 1,474 | 8.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 17,164 | 100.0 | |
| Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Turnout | 17,164 | 39.7 | |
December 1856 by-election
This section is an excerpt from December 1856 Sydney City colonial by-election § Result.[edit]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Dalley (elected) | 1,998 | 57.2 | |
| John Fairfax | 1,493 | 42.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 3,491 | 100.0 | |
| Informal votes | 0 | 0 | |
| Turnout | 3,491 | 25.2 | |
September 1856 by-election
This section is an excerpt from September 1856 Sydney City colonial by-election § Result.[edit]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Cowper (re-elected 1) | 1,993 | 45.6 | |
| Robert Campbell (re-elected 2) | 1,831 | 41.9 | |
| Thomas Duigan | 542 | 12.4 | |
| Total formal votes | 4,366 | 100.0 | |
| Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Turnout | 2,183 | 15.7 | |
1856
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1856 New South Wales colonial election § Sydney City.[edit]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Cowper (elected 1) | 3,073 | 20.5 | |
| Henry Parkes (elected 2) | 3,057 | 20.4 | |
| Robert Campbell (elected 3) | 3,041 | 20.33 | |
| James Wilshire (elected 4) | 2,901 | 19.4 | |
| John Plunkett | 2,800 | 18.7 | |
| Thomas Duigan | 89 | 0.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 14,961 | 100.0 | |
| Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Turnout | 6,007 | 43.3 | |
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).References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ Green, Antony. "1858 Sydney City". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- ↑ Green, Antony. "1856 Sydney City". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ↑ "This city election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 March 1856. p. 4. Retrieved 30 September 2019 – via Trove.
- ↑ "Public meeting: Representation of Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 January 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2019 – via Trove.
- ↑ "Our Sydney "Bunch" of oligarchs". Freeman's Journal. 16 February 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2019 – via Trove.
- ↑ "Representation of Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 January 1856. p. 5. Retrieved 30 September 2019 – via Trove.
- ↑ Cochrane, Peter (1 January 2006). Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy. Melbourne Univ. Publishing. ISBN 9780522853315.
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