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Electoral district of Macquarie

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Former state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

This article is about the former NSW Legislative Assembly seat. For the Australian House of Representatives seat, seeDivision of Macquarie. For the former Tasmanian Legislative Council seat, seeElectoral division of Macquarie.

Macquarie, until 1910The Macquarie was anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly in theAustralian state ofNew 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]

The district created in 1894 was at the upper reaches of the Macquarie River, fromOberon toSofala,[4] and was divided betweenBathurstBlayney andHartley. There was a significant re-distribution of electorates in 1904 as a result of the1903 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 wasWilliam Hurley (Progressive) who did not contest the1904 election as he was appointed to the Legislative Council.[6]

The district re-created in 1904 consisted of parts of the abolished seats ofDubbo andWellington.[7][8] The member for Dubbo wasSimeon Phillips (Liberal Reform) unsuccessfully contested theelection for The Macquarie.[9] The member for Wellington wasJohn Haynes (Liberal Reform) who unsuccessfully contestedthe election for Mudgee.[10]

Members for Macquarie

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MemberPartyPeriod
 James TonkinFree Trade1894–1895
 William HurleyProtectionist1895–1901
 Progressive1901–1904
 Thomas ThrowerLabour1904–1907
 Charles BartonLiberal Reform1907–1910
 Thomas ThrowerLabor1910–1917
 Patrick McGirrLabor1917–1920

Election results

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Main article:Electoral results for the district of Macquarie
This section is an excerpt from1917 Macquarie state by-election § Results.[edit]
1917 Macquarie by-election
Saturday 28 July [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LaborPatrick McGirr3,52150.8−0.1
NationalistMurdock McLeod3,23246.6−2.6
Australian Producers Co-Operative PartyFrank Foster1822.6
Total formal votes6,93599.5+0.5
Informal votes340.5−0.5
Turnout6,96965.1 [a]−7.3
LaborholdSwingN/A
Thomas Thrower (Labor) died.[11]

Notes

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  1. ^based on an electoral roll of 10,704 at the1917 state election.[12]

References

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  1. ^"Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856"(PDF).NSW Parliamentary Record.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved14 December 2019.
  2. ^"Former Members".Members of Parliament.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved2 December 2019.
  3. ^Green, Antony."Elections for the District of Macquarie".New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved12 December 2019.
  4. ^"Proclamation: Parliamentary Electorates".New South Wales Government Gazette. 21 October 1893. p. 8268. Retrieved12 December 2019 – via Trove.
  5. ^"1904 Redistribution".Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived fromthe original on 23 June 2015.
  6. ^"Mr William Fergus Hurley (1848-1924)".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved23 June 2019.
  7. ^"Proposed new Electoral Districts".Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 158. 18 March 1904. p. 2340. Retrieved10 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. Retrieved10 December 2019 – via Trove.
  9. ^Green, Antony."1904 Macquarie".New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved12 December 2019.
  10. ^Green, Antony."1904 Mudgee".New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved5 December 2019.
  11. ^abGreen, Antony."1917 Macquarie by-election".New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved13 December 2019.
  12. ^Green, Antony."1917 Macquarie".New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved3 May 2020.
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