Electoral district of Darlinghurst
Appearance
Darlinghurst was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. Named after and including Darlinghurst, it was created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90.[1] It consisted of parts of Paddington and the abolished seats of Sydney-Fitzroy and Sydney-Bligh. It was abolished in 1920 with the introduction of proportional representation and was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Sydney. It was briefly recreated in 1950 before being abolished in 1953.[2][3][4][5]
Members for Darlinghurst
[edit]First incarnation (1904–1920) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Daniel Levy | Liberal Reform | 1904–1917 | |
Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
Second incarnation (1950–1953) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
Frank Finnan | Labor | 1950–1953 |
Election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Paget | 10,553 | 47.8 | ||
Labor | Frank Finnan | 10,505 | 47.6 | ||
Communist | Adam Ogston | 1,012 | 4.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 22,070 | 97.3 | |||
Informal votes | 603 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 22,673 | 89.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Frank Finnan | 11,401 | 51.7 | ||
Liberal | John Paget | 10,669 | 48.3 | ||
Labor notional hold |
References
[edit]- ^ "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Darlinghurst". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Sir Daniel Levy (1872–1937)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Francis Joseph Finnan (1897-1966)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1950 Darlinghurst". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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- Constituencies established in 1950
- Constituencies disestablished in 1920
- Constituencies established in 1953
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