List of New South Wales state by-elections
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A by-election may occur whenever there is a vacancy in the Legislative Assembly
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

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Vacancies can occur for reasons including:
  • Death
  • Voluntary resignation for any reason; historically these reasons have included:
    • Retirement
    • Ill-health
    • Family or business commitments
    • Prolonged absence from the state—this occurred most commonly in the period when travel to Europe required a long sea voyage
    • Loss of cabinet position, e.g., the resignation of Reba Meagher
      Reba Meagher
      Reba Paige Meagher is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cabramatta. She was a minister in various portfolios from 2003 to 2008. On 6 September 2008 Meagher announced that she would not be seeking a...

       in 2008 after she lost the position of Minister for Health
      New South Wales Department of Health
      The New South Wales Department of Health, a department of the New South Wales Government, is responsibile for monitoring the performance of the public health system in New South Wales, particularly through public hospitals...

    • Matters of principle, e.g., Billy Dunn
      Bill Dunn (Australian politician)
      William Fraser Dunn was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1950. He was a member of the ALP.-Early life:...

       resigned from the seat of Mudgee
      Electoral district of Mudgee
      Mudgee was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales first created in 1859, partly replacing Wellington and Bligh and named after and including Mudgee. Following the abolition of Goldfields West in 1880, it elected three members simultaneously,...

       in 1911 after disagreeing with his party's land ownership legislation.
    • Resignation or expulsion from a political party
    • To create a vacancy for a party leader who did not have a seat. This occurred most recently in 1986 when Rockdale
      Electoral district of Rockdale
      Rockdale is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by John Flowers of the Liberal Party of Australia.-History:...

       MLA Brian Bannon
      Brian Bannon
      Brian Joseph Bannon, OAM is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Rockdale in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1986....

       resigned to enable newly elected party leader
      Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales
      The leader of the ALP in the New South Wales Parliament is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. When the Labor party forms a government the leader is the Premier and when the party is in opposition...

       Barrie Unsworth
      Barrie Unsworth
      Barrie John Unsworth was an Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988.-Early years:...

       to transfer from the Legislative Council to the Legislative Assembly.
    • Public disgrace
    • As a result of an inducement from an opposing party and thus create the potential for that party to increase its representation e.g. Independent MLA Alick Kay
      Alick Kay
      Alick Dudley Kay was an Australian politician and Domain orator. He is described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as a "harmless ratbag"....

       accepted an appointment to the Metropolitan Meat Board in 1927. Under a controversial use of the Legislative Assembly (Casual Vacancies) Act, he was replaced by Labor's Arthur Tonge
      Arthur Tonge
      Arthut Tonge was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1926 and 1932 and from 1935 to 1962...

      ; this gave the government of Jack Lang
      Jack Lang (Australian politician)
      John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

       a secure majority in the house.
  • Constitutional ineligibility to be a Member of the Legislative Assembly, including:
    • Election result voided or overturned on appeal—appeals were initially made to the Qualifications Committee of the Assembly but since 1928 they have been determined by the Court of Disputed Returns
    • Election to two seats—in which case the member was required to resign from one seat
    • Appointment or election to the Legislative Council
      New South Wales Legislative Council
      The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

       This occurred most commonly prior to 1936, when members of the Council were appointed for life by the Governor
    • Election to another parliament, particularly federal parliament—members are required to resign prior to the issuing of the writs for the other parliament's election
    • Having or accepting a position of profit under the crown
    • Not being a citizen of Australia
    • Non-residence in New South Wales for more than 6 months prior to election
    • Becomes of "unsound mind"
    • Insolvency
    • Conviction for a major criminal offence or, since 2007, having faced trial on a charge of sexual abuse of a minor
    • Absence from the house for an entire session without leave
    • Expulsion from the house for infamous conduct
    • Ministerial appointment Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. The political instability of New South Wales in the Nineteenth century caused a very large number of these by-elections and for convenience they have not been listed unless the minister was defeated.


It is now a convention that a by-election is not held if a vacancy occurs within 3–4 months of an expected dissolution of the parliament.

In this list

  • Brackets around a date (D/M/Y) indicate that the candidate was unopposed when nominations closed or that, as a result of an appeal against an election result, the sitting member was replaced by the appellant. These candidates were declared "elected unopposed" with effect from the date of the closing of nominations or appeal decision, and there was no need to hold a by-election.

  • By-elections which resulted in a change in party representation are highlighted as: Gains for the Australian Labor Party
    Australian Labor Party
    The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

     and its splinter groups in ; for the Liberal Party of Australia
    Liberal Party of Australia
    The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

     and its predecessors in ; for the National Party of Australia
    National Party of Australia
    The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

     and its predecessors in ; for independents in ; for the Free Trade Party
    Free Trade Party
    The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

     in and for the Protectionist Party
    Protectionist Party
    The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

     in .



Fifty-fifth Legislative Assembly 2011–2015
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 2011–2015
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2015, as elected at the 2011 state election and at by-elections.-See also:* New South Wales state election, 2011* Premier: Barry O'Farrell...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for by-election Date of by-election Winner of By-election |Party
Clarence
Clarence state by-election, 2011
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Clarence on 19 November 2011, following the resignation on 16 September of sitting member, the National Party's Steve Cansdell, after he admitted to making a false statutory declaration regarding a speeding...

Steve Cansdell
Steve Cansdell
Stephen Rhett "Steve" Cansdell is a former Australian politician and former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned after falsifying a statutory declaration regarding a speeding offence 19 November 2011  

Fifty-fourth Legislative Assembly 2007–2011

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for by-election Date of by-election Winner of By-election |Party
Penrith
Penrith state by-election, 2010
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Penrith on 19 June 2010. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Training Karyn Paluzzano, who had lied to an Independent Commission Against...

Karyn Paluzzano
Karyn Paluzzano
Karyn Lesley Paluzzano is a former Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2003 to 2010, representing the electorate of Penrith.-Private life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after lying to ICAC 19 June 2010 Stuart Ayres
Stuart Ayres
Stuart Ayres MP is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Party of Australia Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 19 June 2010, representing the electorate of Penrith.-Private life:...

  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

Cabramatta
Cabramatta by-election, 2008
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Cabramatta on 18 October 2008 to coincide with the Lakemba, Port Macquarie and Ryde by-elections...

Reba Meagher
Reba Meagher
Reba Paige Meagher is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cabramatta. She was a minister in various portfolios from 2003 to 2008. On 6 September 2008 Meagher announced that she would not be seeking a...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after being dismissed from cabinet 18 October 2008 Nick Lalich
Nick Lalich
Nick Lalich is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since October 2008, representing the electorate of Cabramatta...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Lakemba
Lakemba by-election, 2008
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Lakemba on 18 October 2008 after former Premier Morris Iemma resigned as member for Lakemba...

Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma , is a former Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election before resigning as Premier on 5 September 2008, and as a Member of Parliament on 19...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after losing confidence of caucus 18 October 2008 Robert Furolo
Robert Furolo
Robert Anthony Furolo is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since October 2008, representing the electorate of Lakemba....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie by-election, 2008
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Port Macquarie on 18 October 2008. This was triggered by the resignation of independent MP Rob Oakeshott who was elected to the federal seat of Lyne at a by-election the previous month.The writ for the Port Macquarie...

Robert Oakeshott
Rob Oakeshott
Robert James Murray "Rob" Oakeshott is an Australian politician. He is the independent Member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Lyne in New South Wales, which he won in the 2008 by-election following the resignation of former Nationals leader and Howard minister Mark Vaile...

  Independent Resigned to contest federal Lyne by-election
Lyne by-election, 2008
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Lyne on 6 September 2008. This was triggered by the resignation of National Party MP Mark Vaile. The by-election was held on the same day as the Mayo by-election, and the Western Australian state election.The writ for the...

18 October 2008 Peter Besseling
Peter Besseling
Peter Edward Besseling is an Australian politician. He was also a former professional rugby union player. - Political Career:...

  Independent
Ryde
Ryde by-election, 2008
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Ryde on 18 October 2008 to coincide with the Port Macquarie, Lakemba and Cabramatta by-elections. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and Deputy Premier John Watkins, who cited exhaustion and...

John Watkins
John Watkins (Australian politician)
John Arthur Watkins is a former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, serving between 2005 until his resignation from Parliament in 2008...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned to spend time with family 18 October 2008 Victor Dominello
Victor Dominello
Victor Michael Dominello MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the Coalition...

  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...


Fifty-third Legislative Assembly 2003-2007

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Dubbo
Dubbo state by-election, 2004
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Dubbo on 20 November 2004. It was triggered by the death of sitting independent member Tony McGrane....

Tony McGrane
Tony McGrane
Anthony Michael McGrane was an Australian politician.McGrane was born in Forbes. He had a lengthy career in local government, as a long serving councillor in Gilgandra and Dubbo....

  Independent Death 20 November 2004 Dawn Fardell
Dawn Fardell
Dawn Elizabeth Fardell , a former Australian politician, was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Dubbo between 2004 and 2011.-Early years and background:...

  Independent
Maroubra
Maroubra state by-election, 2005
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Maroubra on 22 September 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and Premier Bob Carr...

Bob Carr
Bob Carr
Robert John "Bob" Carr , Australian statesman, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as premier of NSW...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned as Premier 17 September 2005 Michael Daley
Michael Daley
Michael John Daley MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Maroubra for the Australian Labor Party since 2005. He is currently Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Finance and Services.-Early life:Daley was educated at Marcellin...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Marrickville Andrew Refshauge
Andrew Refshauge
Andrew John Refshauge was an Australian politician and Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005.Refshauge was born in Melbourne, the son of Major-General Sir William Refshauge AC CBE ED , who later became Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II 1955–64 and Director-General of the...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned as Deputy Premier 17 September 2005 Carmel Tebbutt
Carmel Tebbutt
Carmel Mary Tebbutt is an Australian politician. She is the Australian Labor Party Member for Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Macquarie Fields
Macquarie Fields state by-election, 2005
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Macquarie Fields on 22 September 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and former minister Craig Knowles...

Craig Knowles
Craig Knowles
Craig John Knowles is a former Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2005....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after it became apparent that he would not become Premier 17 September 2005 Steven Chaytor
Steven Chaytor
Steven John Chaytor is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2007, representing the southwest Sydney electorate of Macquarie Fields....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Pittwater
Pittwater state by-election, 2005
A by-election was staged in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Pittwater on 26 November 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and former Liberal Party leader John Brogden....

John Brogden   Liberal Ill health 26 November 2005 Alex McTaggart
Alex McTaggart
Alex McTaggart MP, a former Australian politician, was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Pittwater between 2005 and 2007...

  Independent

Fifty-second Legislative Assembly 1999-2003
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1999-2003
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2003, as elected at the 2003 state election:...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Campbelltown Michael Knight
Michael Knight (Australian politician)
Michael Steven Knight AO is a former Australian politician. He was member for Campbelltown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1981 and 2001. He served as Minister for the Olympics between 1995 and 2001 in the Carr Labor government.- Education :Knight attended Doonside High School...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after completion of term as Olympics Minister 3 February 2001 Graham West
Graham West
Graham James West , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Campbelltown between 2001 and 2011 for the Australian Labor Party. He was Minister for Juvenile Justice, Minister for Volunteering and Minister for Youth in the New South Wales State...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Auburn Peter Nagle
Peter Nagle
Peter Richard Nagle is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2001, representing the electorate of Auburn....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Ill health 8 September 2001 Barbara Perry
Barbara Perry
Barbara Mazzel Anne Perry MP, , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Auburn for the Australian Labor Party since 2001. Perry is the Shadow Minister for Ageing, Shadow Minister for Disability Services, Shadow Minister for Family and Community...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Tamworth Tony Windsor
Tony Windsor
Antony Harold Curties "Tony" Windsor , an Australian politician, is an independent member of the House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of New England, New South Wales...

  Independent Resigned to contest federal seat of New England
Division of New England
The Division of New England is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland. It includes such towns as Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Bundarra, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell,...

 at 2001 election
8 December 2001 John Cull
John Cull
John Douglas Cull , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the rural seat of Tamworth from the 2001 by-election until 2003 for the National Party of Australia....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Hornsby Stephen O'Doherty
Stephen O'Doherty
Stephen Mark O'Doherty is a former Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia.O'Doherty was born in Melbourne and educated at Carlingford High School, a public school in the north-western suburbs of Sydney. He received a B.A...

  Liberal Resigned 23 February 2002 Judy Hopwood
Judy Hopwood
Judith "Judy" Hopwood , a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Hornsby for Liberal Party of Australia between 2002 and 2011....

  Liberal

Fifty-first Legislative Assembly 1995-1999

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Clarence
Clarence state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Clarence on May 25, 1996 following the resignation of sitting member, Ian Causley, to contest federal seat of Page at the 1996 election....

Ian Causley
Ian Causley
Ian Raymond Causley is an Australian politician. He was a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Page, New South Wales from 1996 to 2007....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned to contest federal seat of Page
Division of Page
The Division of Page is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the far north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland and the coast of the Pacific Ocean...

 at the 1996 election
25 May 1996 Harry Woods
Harry Woods (Australian politician)
Harry Francis Woods was an Australian politician. He was the member for Page, New South Wales in the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party from the March 1990 general election to his defeat in the March 1996 general election.Woods was elected as the Member...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Southern Highlands
Southern Highlands state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Southern Highlands on May 25, 1996 following the resignation of sitting member, John Fahey, to contest federal seat of Macarthur at the 1996 election....

John Fahey
John Fahey (politician)
John Joseph Fahey, AC is a former Premier of New South Wales and Federal Minister for Finance in Australia. John Fahey is currently the President of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives...

  Liberal Resigned to contest federal seat of Macarthur
Division of Macarthur
The Division of Macarthur is an Australia Federal electoral division covering outer south-west Sydney. Its present boundaries cover the southern suburbs of Campbelltown, all of the local government area of Camden and small parts of Wollondilly. It covers 537 km² and is named after John...

 at the 1996 election
25 May 1996 Peta Seaton
Peta Seaton
Peta Luise Seaton , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Southern Highlands for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1996 until her retirement prior to the 2007 election....

  Liberal
Strathfield
Strathfield state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Strathfield on May 25, 1996 following the resignation of sitting member, Paul Zammit, to contest federal seat of Lowe at the 1996 election....

Paul Zammit
Paul Zammit
Paul Zammit is a former Australian Liberal politician.Zammit was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was first the state member for Burwood from 1984 to 1988; then, after Burwood was abolished, he became state member for Strathfield from 1988 to 1996...

  Liberal Resigned to contest federal seat of Lowe
Division of Lowe
The Division of Lowe was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, on the south shore of the Parramatta River...

 at the 1996 election
25 May 1996 Bruce MacCarthy
Bruce MacCarthy
Bruce Edward MacCarthy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal Party member for Strathfield in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999....

  Liberal
Orange
Orange state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Orange on May 25, 1996 following the retirement of sitting member, Garry West....

Garry West
Garry West (politician)
Garry West is an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Australia Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1995, representing the electorate of Orange...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 25 May 1996 Russell Turner
Russell Turner
Russell William Turner , a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Orange between 1996 and 2011 for the National Party of Australia....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Pittwater
Pittwater state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Pittwater on May 25, 1996 following the retirement of sitting member, Jim Longley....

Jim Longley
Jim Longley
James Alan Longley , better known as Jim Longley, is an Australian accountant and former politician. He served as the Member for Pittwater in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until 1996, and was New South Wales Minister for Community Services, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and...

  Liberal Resigned 25 May 1996 John Brogden   Liberal
Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie state by-election, 1996
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Port Macquarie on November 30, 1996 following the retirement of sitting member, Wendy Machin....

Wendy Machin
Wendy Machin
Wendy Machin , is the president of the National Roads and Motorists' Association . She was the first woman member of the National Party of Australia elected to the New South Wales Parliament and was Minister for Consumer Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Roads and Assisting the...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 30 November 1996 Rob Oakeshott
Rob Oakeshott
Robert James Murray "Rob" Oakeshott is an Australian politician. He is the independent Member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Lyne in New South Wales, which he won in the 2008 by-election following the resignation of former Nationals leader and Howard minister Mark Vaile...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Sutherland
Sutherland state by-election, 1997
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sutherland, Australia, on 12 February 1997 following the retirement of sitting member, Chris Downy....

Chris Downy
Chris Downy
Christopher John "Chris" Downy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal Party member for Sutherland in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1997, and Minister for Sport, Recreation and Racing from 1993 to 1995....

  Liberal Resigned 12 February 1997 Lorna Stone
Lorna Stone
Lorna June Stone is a former Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Sutherland from 1997 to 1999....

  Liberal

Fiftieth Legislative Assembly 1991-1995

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
The Entrance Bob Graham   Liberal Result overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns 18 January 1992 Grant McBride
Grant McBride
Grant Anthony McBride , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of The Entrance on the New South Wales Central Coast for the Australian Labor Party between 1992 and 2011.-Personal life:McBride is a qualified engineer who...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Davidson
Davidson by-election, 1992
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Davidson on 2 May 1992.It was triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Party-turned Independent MP, Terry Metherell, after the scandal known as the 'Metherell Crisis'....

Terry Metherell
Terry Metherell
Terry Alan Metherell is a former Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Davidson in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1992. When the Liberal Party won the 1988 election, Premier Nick Greiner appointed him Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, a...

  Independent Accepted an appointment in the public service (see Metherell affair) 2 May 1992 Andrew Humpherson
Andrew Humpherson
Andrew Humpherson, is a former Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Davidson from 1992-2007.-Early life:...

  Liberal
Ku-ring-gai Nick Greiner
Nick Greiner
Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

  Liberal Resigned after losing Premiership (see Metherell affair) 22 August 1992 Stephen O'Doherty
Stephen O'Doherty
Stephen Mark O'Doherty is a former Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia.O'Doherty was born in Melbourne and educated at Carlingford High School, a public school in the north-western suburbs of Sydney. He received a B.A...

  Liberal
Gordon Tim Moore
Tim Moore (Australian politician)
Timothy John "Tim" Moore is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Gordon in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1992, and Minister from the Environment from 1989 to 1992.-Career:...

  Liberal Resigned (see Metherell affair) 22 August 1992 Jeremy Kinross
Jeremy Kinross
Jeremy Stirton Prevost Kinross is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal Party member for Gordon in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1999....

  Liberal
The Hills Tony Packard
Tony Packard
Anthony Charles "Tony" Packard is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for The Hills in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1993....

  Liberal Resigned after involvement in a business scandal 28 August Michael Richardson
Michael Richardson
Michael John Richardson , a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorates of The Hills between 1993 and 2007 and Castle Hill between 2007 and 2011 for the Liberal Party of Australia.Richardson was educated at North Sydney Boys...

  Liberal
North Shore Phillip Smiles
Phillip Smiles
Phillip Murray Smiles is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Mosman from 1984 to 1991 and North Shore from 1991 to 1993....

  Liberal Resigned 5 February 1994 Jillian Skinner
Jillian Skinner
Jillian Gell Skinner MP , an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalitition government...

  Liberal
Vaucluse Michael Yabsley
Michael Yabsley
Michael Robert Yabsley is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Bligh from 1984 to 1988 and Vaucluse from 1988 to 1994....

  Liberal Resigned 9 April 1994 Peter Debnam
Peter Debnam
Peter John Debnam , is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Vaucluse between 1994 and 2011. Debnam is a former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Western Sydney,...

  Liberal
Parramatta Andrew Ziolkowski
Andrew Ziolkowski
Andrew Charles Frederick Ziolkowski was an Australian politician. He served as an Australian Labor Party Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1991 until his death in 1994, representing the electoral district of Parramatta...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 27 August 1994 Gabrielle Harrison
Gabrielle Harrison
Gabrielle Mary Harrison was an Australian politician. She served as an Australian Labor Party Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1994 until 2003, representing the electorate of Parramatta. Harrison successed her first husband, Andrew Ziolkowski, who died in office.-Private...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Cabramatta John Newman
John Newman (Australian politician)
John Paul Newman was a member of the New South Wales state parliament and Member for the seat of Cabramatta. He was the first elected politician to be assassinated in Australia.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Assassinated by Phuong Ngo
Phuong Ngo
Phuong Canh Ngo was convicted of ordering the killing of Australian MP John Newman on 5 September 1994, a crime which has been described as Australia's first political assassination....

22 October 1994 Reba Meagher
Reba Meagher
Reba Paige Meagher is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cabramatta. She was a minister in various portfolios from 2003 to 2008. On 6 September 2008 Meagher announced that she would not be seeking a...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Forty-ninth Legislative Assembly 1988-1991

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Vaucluse Ray Aston
Ray Aston
Raymond William "Ray" Aston was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Vaucluse in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 till his early death....

  Liberal Death (6 June 1988) Michael Yabsley
Michael Yabsley
Michael Robert Yabsley is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Bligh from 1984 to 1988 and Vaucluse from 1988 to 1994....

  Liberal
North Shore Ted Mack
Ted Mack (politician)
Edward Carrington Mack is an Australian politician. He is the only person ever to have been elected and re-elected as an independent to local, state and federal government in Australia, and is often referred to as the "father of the independents".-Early life:Mack was born in the Sydney suburb of...

  Independent Resigned 5 November 1988 Robyn Read
Robyn Read
Robyn Read is a former Australian politician. She was the Independent member for North Shore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1991.Read was born in St Leonards, the daughter of Norman Read and Edith Gordon...

  Independent
Port Stephens Bob Martin
Bob Martin (Australian politician)
Robert Douglas "Bob" Martin is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for Port Stephens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1999....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Result voided by the Court of Disputed Returns 5 November 1988 Bob Martin
Bob Martin (Australian politician)
Robert Douglas "Bob" Martin is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for Port Stephens in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1999....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Wallsend Ken Booth
Ken Booth (politician)
Kenneth George Booth was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth. From 1981 to 1988 he was the Treasurer of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 17 December 1988 John Mills
John Mills (Australian politician)
John Charles Mills B.Sc. M.Sc. M.R.A.C.I. was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Liverpool George Paciullo
George Paciullo
George Paciullo, OAM is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Liverpool in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1989, and served as a minister from 1984 to 1988....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after being passed over as leader of the party 29 April 1989 Peter Anderson
Peter Anderson (politician)
Peter Thomas Anderson , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Nepean between 1978 and 1981, Penrith between 1981 and 1988, and Liverpool between 1989 and 1995 for the Australian Labor Party...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Heffron Laurie Brereton
Laurie Brereton
Laurence John "Laurie" Brereton , Australianpolitician, was a state minister, a federal member of cabinet, and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders, including Paul Keating and Mark Latham...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Kingsford-Smith at the 1990 election 23 June 1990 Deirdre Grusovin
Deirdre Grusovin
Deirdre Mary Grusovin was a member of the New South Wales Parliament for twenty five years.Grusovin was born Deirdre Mary Brereton in Sydney, and is the sister of influential former politician Laurie Brereton....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Smithfield Janice Crosio
Janice Crosio
Janice Ann Crosio, AM, MBE , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Prospect
Division of Prospect
The Division of Prospect was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales from 1969 to 2010. It was located in the western suburbs of Sydney, and included the suburbs of Fairfield, Smithfield, Kemps Creek, St Clair, Horsley Park and those parts of the suburb of Prospect south of...

  at the 1990 election
23 June 1990 Carl Scully
Carl Scully
Patrick Carl Scully , was an Australian politician and minister in the New South Wales state government before his forced resignation on 25 October 2006....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Granville Laurie Ferguson
Laurie Ferguson
Laurie Donald Thomas Ferguson , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing Reid until 2010 and Werriwa thereafter, both in New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in the...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Reid
Division of Reid
The Division of Reid is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the western suburbs of Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Abbotsford, Auburn , Berala , Breakfast Point, Burwood , Cabarita, Canada Bay, Chiswick, Concord, Concord West, Croydon , Drummoyne,...

  at the 1990 election
23 June 1990 Kim Yeadon
Kim Yeadon
Kimberley Maxwell Yeadon, MP was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.Yeadon was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, but was brought up in Western Sydney...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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The Hills Fred Caterson
Fred Caterson
Frederick Douglas Claude "Fred" Caterson was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for The Hills in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1990....

  Liberal Resigned 1 September 1990 Tony Packard
Tony Packard
Anthony Charles "Tony" Packard is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for The Hills in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1993....

  Liberal
Coffs Harbour Matt Singleton
Matt Singleton
Matthew "Matt" Singleton is a former Australian politician. He was the Country then National Party member for Clarence from 1971 to 1981 and for Coffs Harbour from 1981 to 1990 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was also Minister for Administritive Services and Assistant Minister for...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 3 November 1990 Andrew Fraser
Andrew Fraser (New South Wales politician)
Andrew Raymond Gordon Fraser JP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Coffs Harbour for the National Party of Australia since 1990....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Macquarie Fields Stan Knowles   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned 3 November 1990 Craig Knowles
Craig Knowles
Craig John Knowles is a former Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2005....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Forty-eighth Legislative Assembly 1984-1988

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Murray Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer
Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC , is a former Australian politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Howard Government from 1996 before retiring from Cabinet in 1999...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the seat of Farrer
Division of Farrer
The Division of Farrer is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for William Farrer, agricultural scientist. It is located in the southern rural area of the state and includes Albury, Balranald, Deniliquin and Jerilderie. It has always...

 at the 1984 federal election
2 February 1985 Jim Small
Jim Small
James Richard "Jim" Small is a former Australian politician. He was the National Party member for Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1999....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Peats Paul Landa
Paul Landa
David Paul Landa, QC was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1973 to 1984, and the member for Peats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1984...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 2 February 1985 Tony Doyle
Tony Doyle (politician)
Anthony Kenneth "Tony" Doyle was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Peats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1994....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Gloucester Leon Punch
Leon Punch
Leon Ashton Punch was a New South Wales politician, Deputy Premier, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin, Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. From 1975 to 1976 he was the Deputy Premier of New South Wales...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 12 October 1985 Wendy Machin
Wendy Machin
Wendy Machin , is the president of the National Roads and Motorists' Association . She was the first woman member of the National Party of Australia elected to the New South Wales Parliament and was Minister for Consumer Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Roads and Assisting the...

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Cabramatta Eric Bedford
Eric Bedford
Eric Lance Bedford was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned 1 February 1986 John Newman
John Newman (Australian politician)
John Paul Newman was a member of the New South Wales state parliament and Member for the seat of Cabramatta. He was the first elected politician to be assassinated in Australia.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Canterbury Kevin Stewart   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Accepted position as Agent-General in London 1 February 1986 Kevin Moss
Kevin Moss
Kevin Joseph Moss is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 2003, representing the electorate of Canterbury....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Kiama Bill Knott   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned 1 February 1986 Bob Harrison
Bob Harrison (Australian politician)
Robert Joseph Wilson "Bob" Harrison AO is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the seat of Kiama from 1986 to 1999....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Vaucluse Rosemary Foot   Liberal Resigned 31 May 1986 Ray Aston
Ray Aston
Raymond William "Ray" Aston was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Vaucluse in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 till his early death....

  Liberal
Pittwater Max Smith
Max Smith
Richard Max Smith is a former Australian politician. He represented Pittwater in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1986, first as a member of the Liberal Party and then as an independent....

  Independent Resigned 31 May 1986 Jim Longley
Jim Longley
James Alan Longley , better known as Jim Longley, is an Australian accountant and former politician. He served as the Member for Pittwater in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until 1996, and was New South Wales Minister for Community Services, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and...

  Liberal
Bass Hill Neville Wran
Neville Wran
Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned 2 August 1986 Michael Owen
Michael Owen (Australian politician)
Michael Joseph Owen is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Bass Hill in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 1988....

  Liberal
Rockdale Brian Bannon
Brian Bannon
Brian Joseph Bannon, OAM is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Rockdale in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1986....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Accepted a government position and created a seat for the Premier 2 August 1986 Barrie Unsworth
Barrie Unsworth
Barrie John Unsworth was an Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988.-Early years:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Heathcote Rex Jackson
Rex Jackson
Rex Frederick Jackson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was the son of a railway fettler and born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and educated at Harefield Public School and Junee and Sutherland High Schools. He became a rail...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned amidst a corruption scandal that ultimately led to his imprisonment 31 January 1987 Ian McManus
Ian McManus
Ian McManus is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 2003, representing the electorates of Heathcote , Burragorang and Bulli...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Bankstown Ric Mochalski
Ric Mochalski
Richard Charles "Ric" Mochalski was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bankstown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1986....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after being charged with fraud 31 January 1987 Doug Shedden
Doug Shedden (politician)
Douglas James "Doug" Shedden is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bankstown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1999....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Northern Tablelands Bill McCarthy
Bill McCarthy (politician)
William John Patrick "Bill" McCarthy was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Armidale from 1978 to 1981, and Northern Tablelands from 1981 to 1987....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 23 May 1987 Ray Chappell
Ray Chappell
Raymond Francis "Ray" Chappell is a former Australian politician. He was the National Party member for Northern Tablelands in the New South Wales Parliament from 1987 to 1999, and served as a minister from 1993 to 1995....

  National
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Forty-seventh Legislative Assembly 1981-1984

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Drummoyne Michael Maher
Michael Maher
Michael Maher , is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local Holycross-Ballycahill club and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team from 1956 until 1966.- References :...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Lowe
Division of Lowe
The Division of Lowe was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, on the south shore of the Parramatta River...

 at the Lowe by-election, 1982
Lowe by-election, 1982
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Lowe on 13 March 1982. This was triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Party Prime Minister and MP William McMahon....

17 April 1982 John Murray
John Murray (New South Wales politician)
John Henry Murray is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003, representing the electorate of Drummoyne...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Marrickville Tom Cahill   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 22 October 1983 Andrew Refshauge
Andrew Refshauge
Andrew John Refshauge was an Australian politician and Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005.Refshauge was born in Melbourne, the son of Major-General Sir William Refshauge AC CBE ED , who later became Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II 1955–64 and Director-General of the...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Riverstone Tony Johnson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned 22 October 1983 Richard Amery
Richard Amery
Richard Sanderson Amery MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Mount Druitt for the Australian Labor Party since 1991...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Kogarah Bill Crabtree
Bill Crabtree
Bill Crabtree was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 until 1983 and represented the ALP....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after losing cabinet position 22 October 1983 Brian Langton
Brian Langton
Brian Joseph Langton is a former Australian politician, who served both as mayor of Kogarah in the St George area of Sydney and as the member for Kogarah in the NSW State Parliament...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Maroubra Bill Haigh
Bill Haigh
William Henry "Bill" Haigh is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Maroubra in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1968 to 1983...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned after losing cabinet position 22 October 1983 Bob Carr
Bob Carr
Robert John "Bob" Carr , Australian statesman, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as premier of NSW...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Forty-sixth Legislative Assembly 1978-1981

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Castlereagh Jack Renshaw
Jack Renshaw
John Brophy "Jack" Renshaw AC was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of New South Wales from 30 April 1964 to 13 May 1965.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned 23 February 1980 Jim Curran
Jim Curran
James Lawrence Curran was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1981, representing the electorate of Castlereagh....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Murray Mary Meillon
Mary Meillon
Mary Meillon, née Lawson was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal member for Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1980....

  Liberal Death 13 September 1980 Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer
Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC , is a former Australian politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Howard Government from 1996 before retiring from Cabinet in 1999...

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Ku-ring-gai John Maddison
John Maddison
John Clarkson Maddison, was a New South Wales politician, Attorney General, Minister for Justice and Deputy Leader for the Liberal Party of New South Wales in the cabinets of Robert Askin, Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis until the Liberal party lost the 1976 election...

  Liberal Resigned 13 September 1980 Nick Greiner
Nick Greiner
Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

  Liberal
Bankstown Nick Kearns
Nick Kearns
Nicholas Joseph Kearns was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1980, representing the electorate of Bankstown....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 13 September 1980 Ric Mochalski
Ric Mochalski
Richard Charles "Ric" Mochalski was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bankstown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1986....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Sturt Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer
Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC , is a former Australian politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Howard Government from 1996 before retiring from Cabinet in 1999...

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Farrer
Division of Farrer
The Division of Farrer is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for William Farrer, agricultural scientist. It is located in the southern rural area of the state and includes Albury, Balranald, Deniliquin and Jerilderie. It has always...

 at the 1980 election
Australian federal election, 1980
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives, and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate, were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Malcolm Fraser with coalition partner the National Country Party led by Doug...

21 February 1981 John Sullivan   National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Cessnock Bob Brown   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Hunter
Division of Hunter
The Division of Hunter is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in northern rural New South Wales, and encompasses much of the Hunter Valley region, including the towns of Singleton, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock and Denman...

 at the 1980 election
Australian federal election, 1980
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives, and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate, were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Malcolm Fraser with coalition partner the National Country Party led by Doug...

21 February 1981 Stan Neilly
Stan Neilly
Stanley Thomas "Stan" Neilly is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for Cessnock in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1988 and from 1991 to 1999....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Oxley Bruce Cowan
Bruce Cowan
David Bruce Cowan, AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis...

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Lyne
Division of Lyne
The Division of Lyne is an Australian electoral division located in the State of New South Wales. It lies on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales and includes the Local Government Areas of Gloucester, Greater Taree, Port Macquarie-Hastings and southern Kempsey...

 at the 1980 election
Australian federal election, 1980
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives, and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate, were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Malcolm Fraser with coalition partner the National Country Party led by Doug...

21 February 1981 Peter King
Peter Maurice King
Peter Maurice King was an Australian politician. He was a National Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from February to August 1981, representing the electorate of Oxley....

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Maitland Milton Morris
Milton Morris
Milton Arthur Morris AO is an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Maitland between 3 March 1956 and 29 August 1980 for the Liberal Party of Australia.-Early life:...

  Liberal Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Lyne
Division of Lyne
The Division of Lyne is an Australian electoral division located in the State of New South Wales. It lies on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales and includes the Local Government Areas of Gloucester, Greater Taree, Port Macquarie-Hastings and southern Kempsey...

 at the 1980 election
Australian federal election, 1980
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives, and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate, were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Malcolm Fraser with coalition partner the National Country Party led by Doug...

21 February 1981 Peter Toms
Peter Toms
Peter Toms OAM, JP is an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Maitland between 21 February 1981 and 28 August 1981 for the Liberal Party of Australia.-Early life and military:...

  Liberal

Forty-fifth Legislative Assembly 1976-1978

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
The Hills Max Ruddock
Max Ruddock
Maxwell Stanley Ruddock was a New South Wales politician, Assistant Treasurer and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis...

  Liberal Resigned 9 October 1976 Fred Caterson
Fred Caterson
Frederick Douglas Claude "Fred" Caterson was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for The Hills in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1990....

  Liberal
Earlwood Eric Willis
Eric Willis
Sir Eric Archibald Willis KBE, CMG was an Australian politician, Cabinet Minister and the 34th Premier of New South Wales, serving from 23 January 1976 to 14 May 1976. Born in Murwillumbah in 1922, Willis was educated at Murwillumbah High School and the University of Sydney, where he obtained a...

  Liberal Resigned 15 July 1978 Ken Gabb
Ken Gabb
Kenneth George "Ken" Gabb is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Earlwood in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1988, and a state minister from 1986 to 1988....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Forty-fourth Legislative Assembly 1973-1976

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Goulburn Ron Brewer
Ron Brewer (politician)
Ronald Alfred St Clair "Ron" Brewer was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Goulburn in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1984....

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Eden-Monaro
Division of Eden-Monaro
The Division of Eden-Monaro is anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales.The division was created in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the town of Eden and the Monaro district of southern New South Wales...

 at the 1974 federal election
Australian federal election, 1974
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 May 1974. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution...

20 July 1974 Ron Brewer
Ron Brewer (politician)
Ronald Alfred St Clair "Ron" Brewer was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Goulburn in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1984....

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Coogee Ross Freeman
Ross Freeman (politician)
Ross Buchanan Freeman is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Coogee in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1974.Freeman was born in Maroubra to Arthur and Wilhelmina Freeman...

  Liberal Result voided by the Court of Disputed Returns 20 July 1974 Michael Cleary   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Pittwater Robert Askin
Robert Askin
Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia. He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in 1971...

  Liberal Resigned 8 February 1975 Bruce Webster
Bruce Webster (Australian politician)
Bruce Laurence Webster was an Australian politician, from the Liberal Party of Australia. He was the member for Pittwater, in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 8 February 1975 until 21 July 1978.-References:...

  Liberal
Lane Cove Ken McCaw
Ken McCaw
Sir Kenneth Malcolm McCaw QC , an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Lane Cove for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1947 until his retirement from political office in 1975...

  Liberal Resigned 8 February 1975 John Dowd
John Dowd (politician)
John Robert Arthur Dowd AO QC , a former Australian politician and jurist, is the Chancellor of Southern Cross University and the President of ActionAid Australia, an international aid organisation.-Early years and background:...

  Liberal
Wagga Wagga Wal Fife
Wal Fife
Wallace Clyde Fife is a former Australian politician.Fife was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and was educated at Gurwood Street public school, Wagga Wagga and Canberra Grammar School. In 1948 he started working in the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia and in 1949 he...

  Liberal Successfully contested the seat of Farrer
Division of Farrer
The Division of Farrer is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for William Farrer, agricultural scientist. It is located in the southern rural area of the state and includes Albury, Balranald, Deniliquin and Jerilderie. It has always...

 at the 1975 federal election
Australian federal election, 1975
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1975. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election following a double dissolution of both Houses....

6 December 1975 Joe Schipp
Joe Schipp
Joseph John "Joe" Schipp, OAM is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Wagga Wagga in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1975 to 1999....

  Liberal
Orange Charles Cutler
Charles Cutler
Sir Charles Benjamin Cutler KBE, ED was an Australian politician, holding office for 28 years as an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Orange...

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 14 February 1976 Garry West
Garry West
Garry West is an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Australia Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1995, representing the electorate of Orange...

  National Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Forty-third Legislative Assembly 1971-1973

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Mosman
Mosman state by-election, 1972
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Mosman on Saturday, 29 July 1972.It was triggered by the retirement of the former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Minister of the Crown, The Hon. Pat Morton....

Pat Morton
Pat Morton
Philip Henry Morton was an Australian businessman and politician. Born in Lismore in Northern New South Wales to a prominent political family and educated at Lismore High School, Morton left school at fourteen to be employed in a legal firm, before branching out into various businesses...

  Liberal Resigned 29 July 1972 David Arblaster
David Arblaster
David Amos Arblaster, was a New South Wales politician, Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation and Minister for Tourism in the cabinet of Sir Eric Willis until the Liberal party lost the 1976 election...

  Liberal
Charlestown Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart (politician)
John Julius Thomas Stewart was an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Kahibah and the Charlestown for the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 18 November 1972. Richard Face   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Hawkesbury Bernie Deane
Bernie Deane
Bernard Sydney Llewellyn Deane was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 until 1972. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal Resigned 17 February 1973 Kevin Rozzoli
Kevin Rozzoli
Kevin Richard Rozzoli is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 until 2003, representing the electorate of Hawkesbury. He also served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1995, during the Greiner and...

  Liberal
Armidale Davis Hughes
Davis Hughes
Sir Davis Hughes was an Australian politician and bureaucrat.-Early life:Hughes was born in Launceston, Tasmania and was educated at Launceston High School and the University of Tasmania, although he did not graduate. He married Joan Johnson in 1940 and they had issue one son and two daughters...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Accepted position as Agent-General in London 17 February 1973 David Leitch
David Leitch (politician)
David Stanley Leitch was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Armidale in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1978....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Byron Stanley Stephens
Stanley Stephens (Australian politician)
Stanley Tunstall "Stepper" Stephens was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1944 to 1973, representing the electorate of Byron...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Resigned 17 February 1973 Jack Boyd
Jack Boyd
John Charles Boyd was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 until 1984. He was a member of the Country Party and its successors....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Murray Joe Lawson
Joe Lawson (politician)
Joseph Alexander Lawson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  Independent Death 6 October 1973 Mary Meillon
Mary Meillon
Mary Meillon, née Lawson was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal member for Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1980....

  Liberal

Forty-second Legislative Assembly 1968-1971

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Lake Macquarie Jim Simpson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 9 April 1969 Merv Hunter
Merv Hunter
Mervyn Leslie Hunter is an Australian politician. He was the state Member of Parliament for the electorate of Lake Macquarie representing the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 1991 and was the Shire President of the City of Lake Macquarie in 1969,...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Upper Hunter Frank O'Keefe
Frank O'Keefe
Frank Lionel O'Keefe, AM was an Australian politician. Born in Gunnedah, New South Wales, he attended state schools before becoming a farm machinery distributor and oil merchant. He was mayor of Gunnedah Shire Council for 18 years, and also served on Namoi Valley County Council...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Paterson at the 1969 federal election
Australian federal election, 1969
Federal elections were held in Australia on 25 October 1969. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Gorton with coalition partner the Country Party led by John McEwen defeated the Australian...

14 February 1970 Col Fisher
Col Fisher
Colin Murray "Col" Fisher, OAM was an Australian politician. He was the National Party member for Upper Hunter in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1970 to 1988, and held ministerial positions from 1975 to 1976....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Randwick Lionel Bowen
Lionel Bowen
Lionel Frost Bowen AC , Australian politician, was a senior Labor Party figure, serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Kingsford Smith
Division of Kingsford Smith
The Division of Kingsford Smith is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney, on the north shore of Botany Bay, and the coast of the Tasman Sea...

 at the 1969 federal election
Australian federal election, 1969
Federal elections were held in Australia on 25 October 1969. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Gorton with coalition partner the Country Party led by John McEwen defeated the Australian...

14 February 1970 Laurie Brereton
Laurie Brereton
Laurence John "Laurie" Brereton , Australianpolitician, was a state minister, a federal member of cabinet, and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders, including Paul Keating and Mark Latham...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Murrumbidgee Al Grassby
Al Grassby
Albert Jaime Grassby, AM , Australian politician, was Minister for Immigration in the Whitlam Labor government. He initiated sweeping reforms in immigration, human rights, and is often known as the father of Australian "multiculturalism".-Early life and state politics:Born Albert Grassby in...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Riverina
Division of Riverina
The Division of Riverina is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in south-west rural New South Wales, generally following the Murrumbidgee River valley. It includes the cities of Wagga Wagga and Griffith as well as the towns of Junee, West Wyalong, Tumut,...

 at the 1969 federal election
Australian federal election, 1969
Federal elections were held in Australia on 25 October 1969. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Gorton with coalition partner the Country Party led by John McEwen defeated the Australian...

14 February 1970 Lin Gordon
Lin Gordon
Alan Robert Lindsay "Lin" Gordon was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Murrumbidgee in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1970 to 1984...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Georges River Douglas Cross
Douglas Cross
Douglas Donald Cross was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1948 until 1953 and from 1956 until his death . He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal Death 19 September Frank Walker   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Forty-first Legislative Assembly 1965-1968
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1965–1968
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1968, as elected at the 1965 state election.* Premier: Robert Askin...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Bondi Abe Landa
Abe Landa
The Hon. Abram Landa was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932 and from 1941 until 1965. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Accepted the position of state Agent-General in London 6 November 1965 Syd Einfeld
Syd Einfeld
Sydney David "Syd" Einfeld AO was an Australian politician and Jewish leader. Born in Sydney, he was educated at Fort St Boys' High School before becoming a manager of a merchandising company...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Oxley Les Jordan
Les Jordan
Leslie Charles Jordan was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1944 until his death in 1965 . He was initially elected as a member of the Country Party but changed allegiance to the Liberal Party of Australia in 1959.Jordan was born in Sydney...

  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

Death 6 November 1965 Bruce Cowan
Bruce Cowan
David Bruce Cowan, AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Bathurst Gus Kelly
Gus Kelly (politician)
Christopher Augustus "Gus" Kelly was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 to 1932 and again from 1935 until his death in 1967, representing the electorate of Bathurst...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 6 May 1967 Clive Osborne
Clive Osborne
Clive Geoffrey Osborne was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1967 to 1981, representing the electorate of Bathurst.-Private life:...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Fortieth Legislative Assembly 1962-1965
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1962–1965
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1965, as elected at the 1962 state election.** Jack Renshaw...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Casino Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson (Australian politician)
Ian Louis Robinson is an Australian politician.Born in Coraki, New South Wales, he was educated at state schools before becoming a dairy farmer, a journalist and company director...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Cowper
Division of Cowper
The Division of Cowper is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election and is named for Charles Cowper, an early Premier of New South Wales...

 at the 1963 election
29 February 1964 Richmond Manyweathers
Richmond Manyweathers
Richmond William Manyweathers OBE was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Casino from 1964 to 1968...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Wollongong-Kembla Rex Connor
Rex Connor
Reginald Francis Xavier "Rex" Connor , Australian politician, was a minister in the Whitlam government and promoted government investment to support national development...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Cunningham
Division of Cunningham
The Division of Cunningham is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th century explorer of New South Wales and Queensland. It is located on the coast of New South Wales between southern Sydney and Wollongong, and...

 at the 1963 election
29 February 1964 Doug Porter
Doug Porter (politician)
Douglas Elliott Porter was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1964 to 1965, representing the electorate of Wollongong-Kembla....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Waratah Edward Greaves
Edward Greaves
Edward Greaves was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1962 until 1963. He was a member of the ALP....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 8 August 1964 Frank Purdue
Frank Purdue
Frank Outen Jensen Purdue was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1956 until 1962 and again between 1964 and 1965. He was prominent in local Government and was Lord Mayor of Newcastle, NSW for 9 years between 1951 and 1965...

  Independent
Lakemba Stan Wyatt
Stan Wyatt
Stanislaw Wyatt was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 until his death in 1964. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 19 September 1964 Vince Durick
Vince Durick
Vincent Patrick Durick was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1964 to 1984, representing the electorate of Lakemba....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Thirty-ninth Legislative Assembly 1959-1962
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1959–1962
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1962, as elected at the 1959 state election....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Lismore Jack Easter
Jack Easter
Jack Stuart Easter was an Australian politician who represented the National Party of Australia in the Parliament of New South Wales.He was educated at Ardingly College and at Regent Street Polytechnic...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Result voided by the Court of Disputed Returns 12 September 1959. Keith Compton
Keith Compton
Keith Clive Compton was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1965, representing the electorate of Lismore....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Cook’s River Joseph Cahill
Joseph Cahill
John Joseph Cahill was Premier of New South Wales in Australia from 1952 to 1959. He is best remembered as the Premier who approved construction on the Sydney Opera House, and for his work increasing the authority of local government in the state.-Early years:Joe Cahill, as he was popularly known,...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 12 December 1959 Tom Cahill   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Kurri Kurri George Booth
George Booth (Australian politician)
George Booth was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.Booth was born in Bolton, England. He worked part time as a coal miner at eleven and attended classes by Philip Snowden and became interested in the Labour Movement...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 8 October 1960 Ken Booth
Ken Booth (politician)
Kenneth George Booth was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth. From 1981 to 1988 he was the Treasurer of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Temora Doug Dickson
Doug Dickson
Samuel Douglas Dickson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until his death in 1960. He was a member of the Country Party, serving as its Deputy Leader from 1953 to 1958.Dickson was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 8 October 1960 Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor (politician)
James Hugh Taylor was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1960 to 1981, representing the electorate of Temora....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Paddington-Waverley William Ferguson
William Ferguson (1891-1961)
William John Ferguson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for 16 days in 1953 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 until his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party .Ferguson was born in Redfern and...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 25 February 1961 Keith Anderson
Keith Anderson (Australian politician)
Keith Anderson was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1961 until 1962. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Liverpool Plains Roger Nott
Roger Nott
The Hon. Roger Bede Nott was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1961. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and held numerous ministerial positions between 1954 and 1961...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Accepted an appointment as Administrator of the Northern Territory
Administrator of the Northern Territory
The Administrator of the Northern Territory is an official appointed by the Governor-General of Australia to exercise powers analogous to that of a state governor...

25 March 1961 Frank O'Keefe
Frank O'Keefe
Frank Lionel O'Keefe, AM was an Australian politician. Born in Gunnedah, New South Wales, he attended state schools before becoming a farm machinery distributor and oil merchant. He was mayor of Gunnedah Shire Council for 18 years, and also served on Namoi Valley County Council...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Thirty-eighth Legislative Assembly 1956-1959
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1956–1959
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1959, as elected at the 1956 state election:...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Burwood Leslie Parr
Leslie Parr
Dr Leslie James Albert Parr was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1951 until his death. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal Death 16 February 1957 Ben Doig
Ben Doig
Benjamin Cochrane Doig was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1965, representing the electorate of Burwood...

  Liberal
Kahibah Tom Armstrong
Tom Armstrong (1903-1957)
Tom Armstrong was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1953 until his death in 1957. He was independent but generally supported the Australian Labor Party government of Joseph Cahill. Armstrong was born and educated to elementary level in Lambton, New...

  Independent Labor Death 13 April 1957 Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart (politician)
John Julius Thomas Stewart was an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Kahibah and the Charlestown for the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Vaucluse
Vaucluse state by-election, 1957
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Vaucluse on Saturday, 24 August 1957.It was triggered by the resignation of the former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Lt.Col. Murray Robson, who retired from parliament.The seat was subsequently won by...

Murray Robson   Liberal Resigned 24 August 1957 Geoffrey Cox
Geoffrey Cox (Australian politician)
Brigadier Geoffrey Souter Cox DSO, MC, ED was an Australian soldier and politician. A decorated officer during World War II, he later entered politics, serving as a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1964, representing the electorate of...

  Liberal
Wollondilly Blake Pelly
Blake Pelly
Blake Raymond Pelly OBE was an Australian air force officer, politician and businessman, who represented the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales Parliament....

  Liberal Resigned 26 October 1957 Tom Lewis
Tom Lewis (Australian politician)
Thomas Lancelot Lewis AO is a former New South Wales politician, Premier of New South Wales and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin and Sir Eric Willis. He was made the Premier of New South Wales following Askin's retirement from politics and held it until he was replaced by...

  Liberal
Wagga Wagga Eddie Graham
Eddie Graham (politician)
The Hon. Edgar Hugh Graham was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until his death . He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and held numerous ministerial positions...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 14 December 1957 Wal Fife
Wal Fife
Wallace Clyde Fife is a former Australian politician.Fife was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and was educated at Gurwood Street public school, Wagga Wagga and Canberra Grammar School. In 1948 he started working in the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia and in 1949 he...

  Liberal

Thirty-seventh Legislative Assembly 1953-1956
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1953–1956
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1956, as elected at the 1953 state election. The Speaker was Hon. Bill Lamb....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Dulwich Hill George Weir
George Weir
George Weir was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 to 1953.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Appointed to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
The Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales conciliates and arbitrates industrial disputes, sets conditions of employment and fixes wages and salaries by making industrial awards, approves enterprise agreements and decides claims of unfair dismissal in New South Wales, a state of Australia...

20 June 1953 Cliff Mallam
Cliff Mallam
Heathcote Clifford Mallam was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1953 and 1968 and between 1971 and 1981. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Waverley Clarrie Martin
Clarrie Martin
Major Clarence Edward Martin was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932 and from 1939 until his death in 1953. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party , the Industrial Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 31 October 1953 William Ferguson
William Ferguson (1891-1961)
William John Ferguson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for 16 days in 1953 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 until his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party .Ferguson was born in Redfern and...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Kahibah
Kahibah state by-election, 1953
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Kahibah on 31 October 1953. It was triggered by the forced resignation of Labor MLA Joshua Arthur, and was won by independent candidate Tom Armstrong.-Background:...

Joshua Arthur
Joshua Arthur
Joshua George Arthur was an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Hamilton and the Electoral district of Kahibah for the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned after being expelled from the Labor Party, following adverse findings into his conduct by a Royal Commission 31 October 1953 Tom Armstrong
Tom Armstrong (1903-1957)
Tom Armstrong was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1953 until his death in 1957. He was independent but generally supported the Australian Labor Party government of Joseph Cahill. Armstrong was born and educated to elementary level in Lambton, New...

  Independent Labor
Leichhardt Claude Matthews
Claude Matthews (Australian politician)
The Hon. Claude Hilton Matthews was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1934 until his death in 1954 . He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Committed suicide 20 March 1954 Reg Coady
Reg Coady
Reginald John Francis Coady was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1954 until 1973. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Phillip Tom Shannon
Tom Shannon
For the artist see Tom Shannon Thomas John Shannon was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 until his death. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party .Shannon was born in Redfern, New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 14 August 1954 Pat Hills   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Clarence Cecil Wingfield
Cecil Wingfield
Cecil Wingfield was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until his death. He was a member of the Country Party....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 26 March 1955 Bill Weiley
Bill Weiley
William Robert Weiley was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1955 until 1971. He was a member of the Country Party....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Bulli Laurie Kelly Sr.
Laurie Kelly Sr.
Lawrence Bothwick Kelly Sr. was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1947 until his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 9 July 1955 Rex Jackson
Rex Jackson
Rex Frederick Jackson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was the son of a railway fettler and born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and educated at Harefield Public School and Junee and Sutherland High Schools. He became a rail...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Thirty-sixth Legislative Assembly 1950-1953
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1953, as elected at the 1950 state election:** James McGirr ** Joseph Cahill...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Burwood Gordon Jackett
Gordon Jackett
Harry Gordon Jackett was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1935 and 1938 and from 1941 until his death. He was variously a United Australia Party , Independent UAP, Democratic Party and Liberal Party member of parliament .Jackett was born in...

  Liberal Death 2 June 1951 Leslie Parr
Leslie Parr
Dr Leslie James Albert Parr was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1951 until his death. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal
Neutral Bay Ivan Black
Ivan Black
Ivan Black was an Australian politician and part of the Liberal Party. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1945 until 1962....

  Liberal Unsuccessfully contested preselection for the federal seat of Warringah
Division of Warringah
The Division of Warringah is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, and covers most of the land between Middle Harbour and the Pacific Ocean. It extends from Port Jackson in the south to the suburb of Dee Why in the...

 at the 1951 election
Australian federal election, 1951
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 April 1951. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution called after the Senate rejected the Commonwealth Bank Bill...

(21 May 1951) Ivan Black
Ivan Black
Ivan Black was an Australian politician and part of the Liberal Party. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1945 until 1962....

  Liberal
Liverpool James McGirr
James McGirr
James McGirr was the Labor Premier of New South Wales from 6 February 1947 to 3 April 1952.A Catholic, McGirr was the seventh son of John Patrick McGirr, farmer and Irish immigrant, and Mary McGirr, whose maiden name was O'Sullivan. Born in Parkes, New South Wales, he grew up on a dairy farm near...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Appointed chair of the Maritime Services Board
NSW Maritime
NSW Maritime was an agency in the Government of New South Wales, Australia. NSW Maritime was the State Government Authority responsible for marine safety, regulation of commercial and recreational boating and oversight of port operations...

24 May 1952 Jack Mannix
Jack Mannix
The Hon. Norman John Mannix was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1952 until 1971...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Ashfield Athol Richardson
Athol Richardson
Athol Railton Richardson OBE, QC was an Australian politician and judge. Richardson represented the Electoral district of Ashfield for the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party of Australia from 26 March 1938 until 5 February 1952.-Early life:Richardson was born to parents Stephen Arthur...

  Liberal Appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Supreme Court of New South Wales
The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...

28 June 1952 Jack Richardson
Jack Richardson (politician)
Jack Frederick Richardson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 6 months in 1952-3 and a member of the Australian Labor Party....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Thirty-fifth Legislative Assembly 1947-1950
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1947–1950
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1950, as elected at the 1947 state election:This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1950, as elected at the 1947 state election:This is a list of members of the New South...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Hartley Hamilton Knight
Hamilton Knight
The Hon. Hamilton Knight was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 until 1947 . During his parliamentary career he was, at various times, a member of the Australian Labor Party , the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Accepted an appointment to the Commonwealth Industrial Commission
Australian Industrial Relations Commission
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission, or AIRC , was a tribunal with powers under the Workplace Relations Act 1996. It was the central institution of Australian labour law...

13 December 1947 Jim Chalmers
Jim Chalmers
Jim Chalmers was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1947 until 1956 . He was a member of the Australian Labor Party until he resigned from the party in 1952 and then sat as an independent Labor member.Chalmers was born in Lanarkshire,...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Coogee Lou Cunningham
Lou Cunningham
Lucien Lawrence "Lou" Cunningham was an Australian farmer and politician. He was born at Inverell, New South Wales, to a farmer, Eugene Cunningham, and his wife Mary, née Edgeworth, both born in Ireland...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death May 8 1948 Kevin Ellis
Kevin Ellis (Australian politician)
Sir Kevin William Collin Ellis KBE was an Australian politician, elected as a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  Liberal
Kogarah William Currey   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death July 17 1948 Douglas Cross
Douglas Cross
Douglas Donald Cross was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1948 until 1953 and from 1956 until his death . He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal
Cobar Mat Davidson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 12 March 1949 Ernest Wetherell
Ernest Wetherell
The Hon. Ernest "Ern" Wetherell was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1949 until 1965...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Concord Bill Carlton
Bill Carlton
William Joseph Carlton was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1935 and his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and Australian Labor Party....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 12 March 1949 Brice Mutton
Brice Mutton
Brice Mutton was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assemblyfor 9 months in 1949. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.-Early life:...

  Liberal
Redfern George Noble
George Noble
George Noble was an Australian plumber, gasfitter, politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 1 term from 1947 to 1949. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 8 October 1949 Kevin Dwyer
Kevin Dwyer (politician)
Kevin Dwyer was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 7 months in 1949-50. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Cessnock Jack Baddeley   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Accepted an appointment as Chairman of the State Coal Mine Authority
New South Wales Coal Compensation Board
The New South Wales Coal Compensation Board was a government body in New South Wales which had responsibility for determining compensation payable when coal in the state was compulsorily acquired in 1981.-Background:...

8 October 1949 John Crook   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Wollondilly Jeff Bate   Liberal Successfully contested the seat of Macarthur
Division of Macarthur
The Division of Macarthur is an Australia Federal electoral division covering outer south-west Sydney. Its present boundaries cover the southern suburbs of Campbelltown, all of the local government area of Camden and small parts of Wollondilly. It covers 537 km² and is named after John...

 at the 1949 federal election
Australian federal election, 1949
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced...

(23 January 1950) Blake Pelly
Blake Pelly
Blake Raymond Pelly OBE was an Australian air force officer, politician and businessman, who represented the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales Parliament....

  Liberal
Armidale David Drummond   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Successfully contested the seat of New England
Division of New England
The Division of New England is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland. It includes such towns as Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Bundarra, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell,...

 at the 1949 federal election
Australian federal election, 1949
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced...

11 February 1950 Davis Hughes
Davis Hughes
Sir Davis Hughes was an Australian politician and bureaucrat.-Early life:Hughes was born in Launceston, Tasmania and was educated at Launceston High School and the University of Tasmania, although he did not graduate. He married Joan Johnson in 1940 and they had issue one son and two daughters...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Wollongong-Kembla Billy Davies   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successfully contested the seat of Cunningham
Division of Cunningham
The Division of Cunningham is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th century explorer of New South Wales and Queensland. It is located on the coast of New South Wales between southern Sydney and Wollongong, and...

 at the 1949 federal election
Australian federal election, 1949
Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced...

11 February 1950 Baden Powell   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Concord Brice Mutton
Brice Mutton
Brice Mutton was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assemblyfor 9 months in 1949. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.-Early life:...

  Liberal Death 11 February 1950 John Adamson
John Adamson (New South Wales politician)
John Clark Adamson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for a single term from 1950 until 1953 . He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal

Thirty-fourth Legislative Assembly 1944-1947
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1944–1947
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1944 to 1947, as elected at the 1944 state election:The opposition Democratic Party merged into the nascent Liberal Party of Australia in late 1944, becoming the New South Wales branch of the new party.This is a list of...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Ryde James Shand   Independent Democrat Death 3 February 1945 Eric Hearnshaw
Eric Hearnshaw
Eric Hearnshaw was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1945 until 1965. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia....

  Liberal
Blacktown Frank Hill
Frank Hill (politician)
Francis Hill was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1941 and his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 18 August 1945 John Freeman
John Freeman (Australian politician)
John Stanley Freeman was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1945 until 1959 and a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Manly Alfred Reid   Liberal Death 15 September 1945 Douglas Darby
Douglas Darby
Evelyn Douglas Darby MP was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly...

  Liberal
Neutral Bay
Neutral Bay state by-election, 1945
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Neutral Bay on Saturday, 15 December 1945.It was triggered by the death of the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, The Hon...

Reginald Weaver
Reginald Weaver
Reginald Walter Darcy Weaver was an Australian conservative parliamentarian who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 28 years. Serving from 1917 in the backbenches, he entered the cabinet of Thomas Bavin in 1929 as Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests until he returned to...

  Liberal Death 15 December 1945 Ivan Black
Ivan Black
Ivan Black was an Australian politician and part of the Liberal Party. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1945 until 1962....

  Liberal
Goulburn Jack Tully
Jack Tully
John Moran "Jack" Tully was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1946....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned 1 June 1946 Laurie Tully
Laurie Tully
Laurence John Tully was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1946 until 1965. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Albury
Albury state by-election, 1946
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Albury on Saturday, 9 November 1946.It was triggered by the resignation of the former Premier of New South Wales and second Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Alexander Mair, in order to run for a place in the...

Alexander Mair
Alexander Mair
Alexander Mair was an Australian politician and served as the Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941. Born in Melbourne, working in various businesses, Mair moved to Albury, New South Wales and went on to be a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for fourteen...

  Liberal Unsuccessfully contested a seat in the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

 at the 1946 federal election
Australian federal election, 1946
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

9 November 1946 John Hurley
John Hurley
Cornelius John Hurley was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 109 days in 1946-7. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Auburn Jack Lang
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

  Lang Labor
Lang Labor
Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Reid
Division of Reid
The Division of Reid is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the western suburbs of Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Abbotsford, Auburn , Berala , Breakfast Point, Burwood , Cabarita, Canada Bay, Chiswick, Concord, Concord West, Croydon , Drummoyne,...

 at the 1946 federal election
Australian federal election, 1946
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

9 November 1946 James Lang   Lang Labor
Lang Labor
Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...

Ashfield Athol Richardson
Athol Richardson
Athol Railton Richardson OBE, QC was an Australian politician and judge. Richardson represented the Electoral district of Ashfield for the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party of Australia from 26 March 1938 until 5 February 1952.-Early life:Richardson was born to parents Stephen Arthur...

  Liberal Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Parkes
Division of Parkes
The Division of Parkes is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The largest electorate in the state, it is located in the far north of the state, and adjoining the border with Queensland. Its largest population centre is Dubbo...

 at the 1946 federal election
Australian federal election, 1946
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

9 November 1946 Athol Richardson
Athol Richardson
Athol Railton Richardson OBE, QC was an Australian politician and judge. Richardson represented the Electoral district of Ashfield for the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party of Australia from 26 March 1938 until 5 February 1952.-Early life:Richardson was born to parents Stephen Arthur...

  Liberal
Corowa Christopher Lethbridge
Christopher Lethbridge
Christopher Baron Lethbridge was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1937 and 1946. He was an Independent member of parliament.-Early life:...

  Liberal Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Riverina
Division of Riverina
The Division of Riverina is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in south-west rural New South Wales, generally following the Murrumbidgee River valley. It includes the cities of Wagga Wagga and Griffith as well as the towns of Junee, West Wyalong, Tumut,...

 at the 1946 federal election
Australian federal election, 1946
Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

9 November 1946 Ebenezer Kendell
Ebenezer Kendell
Ebenezer Thomas Kendell was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1946 until 1950. He was a member of the Country Party.-Early life:...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Thirty-third Legislative Assembly 1941-1944
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1941–1944
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 to 1944, as elected at the 1941 state election.During this term, the opposition United Australia Party merged with the new Commonwealth Party to form the Democratic Party in late 1943...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Dubbo George Wilson   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 6 June 1942 Clarrie Robertson
Clarrie Robertson
Clarence Gordon Robertson was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1942 and 1950 and again between 1953 and 1959. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

South Coast Rupert Beale
Rupert Beale
Rupert Noel Beale was an Australian politician and an Independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 16 months from May 1941 until his death.-Early life:...

  Independent Death 14 November 1942 Jack Beale
Jack Beale
Jack Gordon Beale AO was an Australian politician who championed the need for Australia to conserve and develop its water resources. He was also Australia's first environment minister...

  Independent
Willoughby Edward Sanders   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 25 September 1943 George Brain
George Brain
George William Brain was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was the longest-serving member for Willoughby, serving from 1943 until his retirement in 1968. Brain was recognized as one of the primary forces in establishing the Free Library Movement in...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Lachlan Griffith Evans
Griffith Evans (politician)
Griffith Parry Evans was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until his death. He was a member of the Country Party.-Early life:...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 25 September 1943 John Chanter
John Courtenay Chanter
For John Courtenay Chanter's father, John Moore Chanter, a member of the New South Wales and Australian parliaments see John ChanterJohn Courtenay Chanter was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1943 and 1947...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Auburn Jack Lang
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

  Lang Labor
Lang Labor
Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...

Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Reid
Division of Reid
The Division of Reid is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the western suburbs of Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Abbotsford, Auburn , Berala , Breakfast Point, Burwood , Cabarita, Canada Bay, Chiswick, Concord, Concord West, Croydon , Drummoyne,...

 at the 1943 election
Australian federal election, 1943
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...

2 October 1943 Jack Lang
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

  Lang Labor
Lang Labor
Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...


Thirty-second Legislative Assembly 1938-1941
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1938–1941
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 to 1941, as elected at the 1938 state election.This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 to 1941, as elected at the 1938 state election.This is a list of members of the New South...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Coogee John Dunningham   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 25 June 1938 Thomas Mutch
Thomas Mutch
Thomas Davies Mutch was an Australian politician.Born in London to busdriver William Murdoch Mutch and Sarah Davies, he arrived in New South Wales in 1887 and was educated at Double Bay Public School...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Gordon Harry Turner   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Result voided by Court of Disputed Returns 24 September 1938 Harry Turner   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Wollondilly Mark Morton   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 12 November 1938 Jeff Bate   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Balmain John Quirk   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 14 January 1939 Mary Quirk
Mary Quirk
Mary Lily May Quirk was an Australian politician.Born in Coonamble in New South Wales to farmer Julius Deal and his wife Emma Margaretta White, she was educated at Rozelle before commencing work as a domestic servant. She was later employed as a shop assistant with Grace Brothers, leading to her...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Hurstville James Webb
James Webb (Australian Politician)
James Eli Webb was an Australian politician.Webb represented the seat of Hurstville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1932 to 1939 for the United Australia Party.-Notes:...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 18 March 1939 Clive Evatt
Clive Evatt
Clive Evatt QC was an Australian politician, barrister and raconteur. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1939 until 1959. At various times he sat as a member of the Industrial Labor Party, ALP and as an independent.-Early life:Evatt was born in Maitland and was the...

  Industrial Labor
Industrial Labor Party
The Industrial Labor Party or Heffron Labor Party was a political party active in New South Wales, Australia, between 1938 and 1939. It was a splinter group of the Australian Labor Party and was formed by Bob Heffron after he and Carlo Lazzarini attempted to depose the party leader Jack Lang...

Waverley John Waddell   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 22 April 1939 Clarrie Martin
Clarrie Martin
Major Clarence Edward Martin was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932 and from 1939 until his death in 1953. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party , the Industrial Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  Industrial Labor
Industrial Labor Party
The Industrial Labor Party or Heffron Labor Party was a political party active in New South Wales, Australia, between 1938 and 1939. It was a splinter group of the Australian Labor Party and was formed by Bob Heffron after he and Carlo Lazzarini attempted to depose the party leader Jack Lang...

Upper Hunter Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown (Australian politician)
Malcolm Brown was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1931 to 1939, representing the electorate of Upper Hunter....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 7 October 1939 D'Arcy Rose
D'Arcy Rose
D'Arcy Rose was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1939 until 1959. He was a member of the Country Party.Rose was born in Ashfield, New South Wales...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Tamworth Frank Chaffey   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 10 August 1940 Bill Chaffey
Bill Chaffey
William Adolphus Chaffey was an Australian farmer, soldier and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the district of Tamworth...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Croydon Bertram Stevens   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Lang
Division of Lang
The Division of Lang was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and was named after Rev. John Dunmore Lang, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and advocate of Australian independence...

 at the 1940 election
Australian federal election, 1940
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 September 1940. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

7 September 1940 David Hunter
David Hunter (politician)
David Benjamin Hunter was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1976, representing three successive conservative parties - the United Australia Party, Democratic Party, and Liberal Party...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Ryde Eric Spooner
Eric Spooner
Eric Sydney Spooner was an Australian politician.Spooner was born in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo and educated at Christ Church St Laurence School. At 14 he became a telegraph messenger and studied at night at the University of Sydney to gain a diploma in economics and commerce. He married...

  UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Successfully contested the federal seat of Robertson
Division of Robertson
The Division of Robertson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located on the Central Coast, immediately north of the Hawkesbury River. It encompasses the towns of Woy Woy, Gosford and Terrigal....

 at the 1940 election
Australian federal election, 1940
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 September 1940. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

14 September 1940 Arthur Williams
Arthur Williams (Australian politician)
Arthur John Leonard Williams was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1940 until 1956. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Barwon Ben Wade
Ben Wade (politician)
Benjamin Martin "Ben" Wade was an Australian politician.Born at Tenterden to grazier William Martin Wade and Ann Hogan, he attended school at Tenterden and Inverell before finding work at the Lands Department in Narrabri. He married Bertha Matilda Oberle on 17 April 1917, with whom he had three...

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Gwydir
Division of Gwydir
The Division of Gwydir was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election...

 at the 1940 election
Australian federal election, 1940
Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 September 1940. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

25 October 1940 Roy Heferen
Roy Heferen
Stephen Roy Heferen was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1950. During his parliamentary career he was a member of the Australian Labor Party but sat as an Independent Labor member between March and May 1950.-Early life:Heferen...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Thirty-first Legislative Assembly 1935-1938
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1935–1938
This is a list of members of the 31st New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1935 to 1938, as elected at the 1935 state election.* Speakers:** Daniel Levy...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Gordon Thomas Bavin   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Accepted an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Supreme Court of New South Wales
The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...

(23 November 1935) Philip Goldfinch   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Vaucluse William Foster   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 29 August 1936 Murray Robson   Independent UAP
Woollahra Daniel Levy   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 26 June 1937 Harold Mason
Harold Mason
Harold Harvey Mason KC was an Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Woollahra from 26 June 1937 until 24 February 1938 as an Independent United Australia Party MP....

  Independent UAP
Gordon Philip Goldfinch   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Resigned (Increased commitment to business interests) 7 August 1937 Harry Turner   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Corowa Richard Ball   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 11 December 1937 Christopher Lethbridge
Christopher Lethbridge
Christopher Baron Lethbridge was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1937 and 1946. He was an Independent member of parliament.-Early life:...

  Independent

Thirtieth Legislative Assembly 1932-1935
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1932–1935
This is a list of members of the 30th New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1932 to 1935, as elected at the 1932 state election on 11 June 1932.-References:...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Leichhardt Barney Olde
Barney Olde
Bernard Clarence "Barney" Olde was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 to 1932, representing the electorate of Leichhardt....

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Death 10 December 1932 Joe Lamaro
Joe Lamaro
Joseph "Joe" Lamaro was an Australian politician.Born in Redfern to shopkeeper Deico Lamaro and Maria Giuseppa Taranto, Italian migrants, he attended St Joseph's School in Newtown and St Patrick's College in Goulburn before studying at the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1915...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Lismore William Missingham   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 11 March 1933 William Frith
William Frith (politician)
William Frith was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1933 until 1953. He was a member of the Country Party. He was the party whip from 1938 till 1953....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Bulli Andrew Lysaght, junior
Andrew Lysaght, junior
Andrew Augustus Lysaght was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 until 1933, representing the electorate of Bulli...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Death 3 June 1933 John Sweeney   Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Annandale Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert James STUART-ROBERTSON was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1907 until his death and was the Minister for Health for 4 months in 1927...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Death 24 June 1933 Bob Gorman
Bob Gorman
Robert Douglas Gorman was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1933 and 1950...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Hamilton Hugh Connell
Hugh Connell
Hugh John Connell DSO, MC & Bar was an Australian politician and soldier.-Early life:Connell was born in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, New South Wales and educated at Woollahra and Paddington public schools, Fort Street High School and at a teachers' training college...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Death 24 February 1934 William Brennan
William Brennan (Australian politician)
William Edward Brennan was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1925 and 1934 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1934 until 1935...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Gloucester Walter Bennett   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Death 25 August 1934 Charles Bennett   UAP
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

Leichhardt Joe Lamaro
Joe Lamaro
Joseph "Joe" Lamaro was an Australian politician.Born in Redfern to shopkeeper Deico Lamaro and Maria Giuseppa Taranto, Italian migrants, he attended St Joseph's School in Newtown and St Patrick's College in Goulburn before studying at the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1915...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Watson
Division of Watson
The Division of Watson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Belfield, Belmore, Burwood Heights, Campsie, Chullora, Clemton Park, Enfield, Greenacre, Lakemba, Mount Lewis, Roselands,...

 at the 1934 election
Australian federal election, 1934
Federal elections were held in Australia on 15 September 1934. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent United Australia Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons with coalition partner the Country Party led...

20 October 1934 Claude Matthews
Claude Matthews (Australian politician)
The Hon. Claude Hilton Matthews was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1934 until his death in 1954 . He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....


Twenty-ninth Legislative Assembly 1930-1932
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1930–1932
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 29th parliament of New South Wales from 1930 to 1932.* New South Wales state election, 1930* Premier: Jack Lang...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Clarence Alfred Pollack   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Death 7 March 1931 Alfred Henry   Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

Annandale Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert James STUART-ROBERTSON was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1907 until his death and was the Minister for Health for 4 months in 1927...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Insolvency 25 April 1931 Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert Stuart-Robertson
Robert James STUART-ROBERTSON was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1907 until his death and was the Minister for Health for 4 months in 1927...

  Labor (NSW)
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Lang Labor, was the name given to a major breakaway of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales that operated from 1931 to 1936....

Upper Hunter William Cameron   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death 13 June 1931 Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown (Australian politician)
Malcolm Brown was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1931 to 1939, representing the electorate of Upper Hunter....

  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...


Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly 1927-1930
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1927–1930
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 28th parliament of New South Wales from 1927 to 1930. They were elected at the 1927 state election on 8 October 1927....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Wollondilly George Fuller
George Fuller (Australian politician)
Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day ; his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.-Early life:Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Accepted position as Agent-General in London in February 1928 3 March 1928 Mark Morton   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Hamilton David Murray
David Murray (Australian politician)
David Murray was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1921 until his death in 1928. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 8 September 1928 James Smith
James Smith (New South Wales politician)
James Edward Smith was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1928 until 1930. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Coogee Hyman Goldstein
Hyman Goldstein (politician)
Hyman Goldstein was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Eastern Suburbs from 1922 until 1925, and Coogee from 1927 to his death in 1928...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death- probably murdered by ex-MLA Tom Ley
Thomas John Ley
Thomas John Ley was an Australian politician who was convicted of murder in England. It is highly likely that he was also involved in the deaths of a number of people in Australia.-Early life:...

22 September 1928 John Dunningham   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Parramatta Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1906 until his death and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death 23 February 1929 Herbert Lloyd   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Ashfield Milton Jarvie   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Resigned after being implicated in a bribery scandal 5 October 1929 Milton Jarvie   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Lane Cove Bryce Walmsley   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death 26 July 1930 Herbert FitzSimons   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...


Twenty-seventh Legislative Assembly 1925-1927
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1925–1927
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 27th parliament of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927. They were elected at the 1925 state election on 30 May 1925....

The 25th, 26th and 27th Legislative Assemblies were elected using a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark
Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

). Under the provisions of the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act, casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate on the incumbent member's party list. If an Independent member retired, the Clerk of the Assembly determined who would fill the vacancy based on the departing members voting record in questions of confidence. The date listed as the by-election date is the day on which the new member was sworn into the Assembly.
By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Sydney John Birt   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death (24 June 1925) Patrick Minahan   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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St George Thomas Ley   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
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Resigned to successfully contest the federal seat of Barton
Division of Barton
The Division of Barton is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1922 and is named for Sir Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia...

 at the 1925 election
Australian federal election, 1925
Federal elections were held in Australia on 14 November 1925. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 22 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

(30 September 1925) William Bagnall   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Goulburn John Perkins
John Perkins (Australian politician)
John Arthur Perkins was an Australian politician and journalist.Perkins was born at Gocup near Tumut, New South Wales and educated at public schools in Tumut and Cooma. He was a member of the Cooma Municipal Council from 1902 to 1909 and mayor in 1904 and 1908...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Resigned to successfully contest the federal seat of Eden-Monaro
Division of Eden-Monaro
The Division of Eden-Monaro is anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales.The division was created in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the town of Eden and the Monaro district of southern New South Wales...

 at the 1926 Eden-Monaro by-election.
(21 January 1926) Henry Bate
Henry Bate (Australian politician)
Henry John Bate was an Australian politician.Born at Tilba Tilba to farmer Richard Mossop Bate and Henrietta Higman, he was educated at Newington College , Sydney Technical and Hawkesbury Agricultural Colleges before becoming a farmer...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Cumberland William FitzSimons   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death (22 September 1926) James Shand   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

North Shore Alick Kay
Alick Kay
Alick Dudley Kay was an Australian politician and Domain orator. He is described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as a "harmless ratbag"....

 ¶
  Independent Accepted a position on the Metropolitan Meat Board. (22 September 1926) Arthur Tonge
Arthur Tonge
Arthut Tonge was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1926 and 1932 and from 1935 to 1962...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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¶ Kay had supported the Lang Government in votes of confidence in the Assembly, the Clerk of the Parliament therefore named the first unsuccessful Labor candidate in the North Shore electrorate as his replacement.

Twenty-sixth Legislative Assembly 1922-1925
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1922–1925
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 26th parliament of New South Wales from 1922 to 1925. They were elected at the 1922 state election on 25 March 1922...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Wammerawa William Ashford
William Ashford (Australian politician)
William George Ashford was an Australian politician.Born at Sparks Creek near Scone to selector John Ashford and Rebecca Bell, he attended Sparks Creek Public School before starting work on his father's farm. He later bought a farm on the Hawkesbury River, but sold it to return to Sparks Creek...

  Independent Result overturned (Change of member without by-election) (1 August 1922) Joseph Clark   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Stuart Jabez Wright   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death (30 September 1922) Ted Horsington   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Namoi Patrick Scully   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned (20 September 1923) William Scully   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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North Shore Arthur Cocks
Arthur Cocks (Australian politician)
Sir Arthur Alfred Clement Cocks KBE was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Accepted position of Agent-General in London (24 March 1925) Alfred Reid   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...


Twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly 1920-1922
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1920–1922
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 25th parliament of New South Wales from 1920 to 1922. They were elected at the 1920 state election on 20 March 1920...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Eastern Suburbs James Fingleton
James Fingleton
James Fingleton Jnr was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the father of Australian Test cricketer Jack Fingleton....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death (15 December 1920) Daniel Dwyer   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Goulburn Augustus James   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Accepted an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. (15 December 1920) William Millard   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Murray George Beeby
George Beeby
Sir George Stephenson Beeby KBE was an Australian politician, judge and author.-Early life:Beeby was born in Alexandria, Sydney, New South Wales the second son of English-born Edward Augustus Beeby, a book-keeper, and his wife Isabel, née Thompson. Beeby was educated at Crown Street Public School...

  Progressive
Progressive Party (1920)
The Progressive Party was a New South Wales political party that operated between 1920 and 1927, achieving representation in the Legislative Assembly due to proportional representation. The party attracted support from conservative voters in both rural and urban NSW. As a result, its policies were...

Accepted a judicial appointment (15 December 1920) Matthew Kilpatrick   Progressive
Progressive Party (1920)
The Progressive Party was a New South Wales political party that operated between 1920 and 1927, achieving representation in the Legislative Assembly due to proportional representation. The party attracted support from conservative voters in both rural and urban NSW. As a result, its policies were...

Oxley George Briner   Progressive
Progressive Party (1920)
The Progressive Party was a New South Wales political party that operated between 1920 and 1927, achieving representation in the Legislative Assembly due to proportional representation. The party attracted support from conservative voters in both rural and urban NSW. As a result, its policies were...

Death (15 December 1920) Theodore Hill   Progressive
Progressive Party (1920)
The Progressive Party was a New South Wales political party that operated between 1920 and 1927, achieving representation in the Legislative Assembly due to proportional representation. The party attracted support from conservative voters in both rural and urban NSW. As a result, its policies were...

Newcastle William Kearsley
William Kearsley
William Kearsley was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1921. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death (30 August 1921) David Murray
David Murray (Australian politician)
David Murray was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1921 until his death in 1928. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Stuart ¶ Percy Brookfield   Industrial Socialist
Industrial Socialist Labor Party
The Industrial Socialist Labor Party was a short lived socialist political party in Australia in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It was founded by radical socialist members of the industrial wing of the Australian Labor Party , at a time when the ALP's socialist ideology was a matter of intra-party...

Murdered while trying to disarm a deranged man at Riverton
Riverton, South Australia
Riverton is a small town of distinctive character and interest to travellers in the Mid North of South Australia, in the Gilbert Valley. It is situated on the Gilbert River, from which the town derives its name...

(30 August 1921) Jabez Wright   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Balmain John Storey
John Storey (politician)
John Storey was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death (18 October 1921) Tom Keegan
Tom Keegan (Australian politician)
Thomas Michael "Tom" Keegan was an Australian politician.Born in Ararat to miner John Walter Keegan and Mary Flood, he attended primary schools before becoming a miner at Wyalong. Active in the miners' union and the Australian Labor Party, he moved to Sydney around 1901...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Goulburn ‡ William Millard   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death (22 November 1921) John Perkins
John Perkins (Australian politician)
John Arthur Perkins was an Australian politician and journalist.Perkins was born at Gocup near Tumut, New South Wales and educated at public schools in Tumut and Cooma. He was a member of the Cooma Municipal Council from 1902 to 1909 and mayor in 1904 and 1908...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...


¶ The Speaker had received correspondence nominating two Independents from the 1920 election. However, the terms of the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies ) Act stated that a nomination to fill the vacancy had to come from a recognised party leader. Labor leader and Premier John Storey nominated Jabez Wright.

‡Millard had been appointed to replace Augustus James and, as there were no further unsuccessful Nationalist candidates, the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies ) Act was amended to allow his replacement by another Nationalist supporter.

Twenty-fourth Legislative Assembly 1917-1920
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1917–1920
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 24th parliament of New South Wales from 1917 to 1920. They were elected at the 1917 state election on 24 March 1917...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Macquarie Thomas Thrower
Thomas Thrower
Thomas Henry Thrower was an Australian politician.Born in Sydney to publican Frederick Palmer Thrower and Mary Ann Comerford, he became a cabinet maker. Around 1900 he married Catherine Newman, with whom he had five children...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 12 July 1917 Patrick McGirr   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Murray Robert Scobie
Robert Scobie
Robert Scobie was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.Scobie was an Australian Labor Party member for Wentworth from 1901 to 1904 and Murray from 1904 to 1917.-Notes:...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Death 22 September 1917 Brian Doe
Brian Doe
Brian James Doe was an Australian politician.Doe was born in Portland, Victoria, and educated at Warrnambool and moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia when he was eleven. He worked as a blacksmith and a railway porter at Port Broughton from 1888 until 1899. He married Hannah Fairbank in about...

  Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Gloucester Richard Price   Independent Liberal Expelled after a Royal Commission found he had made "wanton lies" in an attack on the Lands Minister William Ashford
William Ashford (Australian politician)
William George Ashford was an Australian politician.Born at Sparks Creek near Scone to selector John Ashford and Rebecca Bell, he attended Sparks Creek Public School before starting work on his father's farm. He later bought a farm on the Hawkesbury River, but sold it to return to Sparks Creek...

10 November 1917 Richard Price   Independent Liberal
Cobar Charles Fern   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death (1 June 1918) Mat Davidson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Upper Hunter Mac Abbott   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
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Resigned 8 June 1918 William Cameron   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Monaro Gus Miller   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 23 November 1918 John Bailey
John Bailey (Australian politician)
John Derek Bailey is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Wanguri in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1999. Bailey was Deputy Opposition Leader to Maggie Hickey, but was succeeded by Syd Stirling when Clare Martin became Labor leader. He resigned...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Petersham John Cohen   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Accepted an appointment as a District Court Judge 22 March 1919 Sydney Shillington   Nationalist
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

Paddington John Osborne   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Accepted as appointment to the Metropolitan Meat Board 24 May 1919 Lawrence O'Hara   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Paddington Lawrence O'Hara   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 26 July 1919 John Birt   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Twenty-third Legislative Assembly 1913-1917
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1913–1917
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 23rd parliament of New South Wales from 1913 to 1917. They were elected at the 1913 state election on 6 December 1913. The Speaker was Richard Meagher....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Canterbury Henry Peters   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Bankrupt 10 October 1914 George Cann
George Cann
George Cann was an Australian miner and politician in the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales.Cann was born at Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland, England, educated at Cramlington National School and became a coalminer at eleven. He married Catherine Roberts in 1890 and they had one...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Castlereagh John Treflé   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 20 February 1915 James Arkins
James Arkins
James Guy Dalley Arkins was an Australian politician.Born in Millthorpe, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming a builder. In 1915 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Castlereagh. After the Labor split of 1916 over...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Clarence John McFarlane
John McFarlane (Australian politician)
John McFarlane was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 28 years, 4 months and 29 days ....

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 14 August 1915 William Zuill   Farmers and Settlers
Armidale George Braund
George Braund
-Life:Braund was born in Bideford, Devon, England and was educated at Bideford Grammar School and migrated with his family to New South Wales, when he was 15. In 1889 his family moved to Armidale....

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Died on active service (18 September 1915) Herbert Lane   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Wollondilly Frank Badgery   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death (2 October 1915) George Fuller
George Fuller (Australian politician)
Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day ; his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.-Early life:Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Willoughby Edward Larkin
Edward Larkin
Edward Rennix "Teddy" Larkin was an Australian parliamentarian and a national representative rugby union player who saw service in World War I and was killed in action on the first day of the Gallipoli Campaign. He was one of only two serving members of any Australian parliament to fall in World...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Died on active service on 25 April 1915 25 September 1915 John Haynes   Independent
Drummoyne George Richards
George Richards (Australian politician)
George Richards was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on a platform promising trams down Lyons road in Drummoyne...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 22 January 1916 Alexander Graff   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Parramatta Tom Moxham   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 12 February 1916 Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1906 until his death and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Bingara George McDonald
George McDonald (Australian politician)
George Roy William McDonald was an Australian politician.-Legal career:McDonald was born in Sydney, the son of mining engineer George McDonald and his wife Margaret McNamara. He was educated in public schools in the Parramatta district and became a deposition clerk in the Justice Department at...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned from the ALP after the 1916 NSW ALP Conference passed a motion of no confidence in the Holman government 10 June 1916 George McDonald
George McDonald (Australian politician)
George Roy William McDonald was an Australian politician.-Legal career:McDonald was born in Sydney, the son of mining engineer George McDonald and his wife Margaret McNamara. He was educated in public schools in the Parramatta district and became a deposition clerk in the Justice Department at...

  Independent Labor
Sturt John Cann
John Cann
John Henry Cann was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of James McGowen and William Holman. From 1912 to 1914 he was the Treasurer of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Accepted the position of Commissioner of Railways 3 February 1917 Percy Brookfield   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Twenty-second Legislative Assembly 1910-1913
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1910–1913
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 22nd parliament of New South Wales from 1910 to 1913. They were elected at the 1910 state election on 14 October 1910...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Mudgee Bill Dunn
Bill Dunn (Australian politician)
William Fraser Dunn was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1950. He was a member of the ALP.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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16 August 1911 Bill Dunn
Bill Dunn (Australian politician)
William Fraser Dunn was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1950. He was a member of the ALP.-Early life:...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Liverpool Plains Henry Hoyle
Henry Hoyle
Henry "Harry" Clement Hoyle was an Australian politician and rugby league football administrator of the 1890s and 1900s...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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16 August 1911 John Perry   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Liverpool Plains John Perry   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

28 October 1911 William Ashford
William Ashford (Australian politician)
William George Ashford was an Australian politician.Born at Sparks Creek near Scone to selector John Ashford and Rebecca Bell, he attended Sparks Creek Public School before starting work on his father's farm. He later bought a farm on the Hawkesbury River, but sold it to return to Sparks Creek...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Cobar Donald Macdonell
Donald Macdonell (Australian politician)
Donald Macdonell was an Australian politician.Born at Stuart Mill near St Arnaud, Victoria, to Scottish-born farmer and shearer Alexander Macdonell, he helped on his father's farm as a child and moved to New South Wales in 1886, being an early member of the Shearers' Union...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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(7 October 1911) Donald Macdonell
Donald Macdonell (Australian politician)
Donald Macdonell was an Australian politician.Born at Stuart Mill near St Arnaud, Victoria, to Scottish-born farmer and shearer Alexander Macdonell, he helped on his father's farm as a child and moved to New South Wales in 1886, being an early member of the Shearers' Union...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Cobar Donald Macdonell
Donald Macdonell (Australian politician)
Donald Macdonell was an Australian politician.Born at Stuart Mill near St Arnaud, Victoria, to Scottish-born farmer and shearer Alexander Macdonell, he helped on his father's farm as a child and moved to New South Wales in 1886, being an early member of the Shearers' Union...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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(16 December 1911) Charles Fern   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Yass Niels Nielson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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19 July 1913 Greg McGirr
Greg McGirr
John Joseph Gregory McGirr was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Maitland John Gillies   Independent Liberal Death 28 October 1911 Charles Edward Nicholson   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Alexandria John Dacey   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 18 May 1912 Simon Hickey   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Blayney George Beeby
George Beeby
Sir George Stephenson Beeby KBE was an Australian politician, judge and author.-Early life:Beeby was born in Alexandria, Sydney, New South Wales the second son of English-born Edward Augustus Beeby, a book-keeper, and his wife Isabel, née Thompson. Beeby was educated at Crown Street Public School...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned from the ministry, parliament and party in protest at the power of the extra-parliamentary Labor Party executive 23 January 1913 George Beeby
George Beeby
Sir George Stephenson Beeby KBE was an Australian politician, judge and author.-Early life:Beeby was born in Alexandria, Sydney, New South Wales the second son of English-born Edward Augustus Beeby, a book-keeper, and his wife Isabel, née Thompson. Beeby was educated at Crown Street Public School...

  Independent
Wollondilly William McCourt   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 19 July 1913 Frank Badgery   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...


¶ Mudgee ALP MLA Bill Dunn and Liverpool Plains ALP MLA Henry Hoyle resigned from the Labor Party and Parliament on 25 July 1911 in protest at legislation on land ownership introduced by Lands Minister, Niels Nielson. As a result the ALP was left without a majority in the house and rather than face a vote of no confidence, the Ministry and Speaker resigned. This forced the House to be prorogued with the result that Cobar ALP MLA, Donald Macdonell, who was unwell but expected to recover, was automatically expelled for non-attendance during an entire session. By the time of the subsequent by-elections, Labor policy had been reversed and Nielsen had left the ministry. Dunn rejoined the party and successfully re-contested, the Mudgee by-election on 16 August 1911. Hoyle did not re-contest the Liverpool Plains by-election] which was won by Liberal candidate, John Perry by three votes on the same day. This result was overturned on appeal and at the second by-election on 28 October, ALP candidate, William Ashford was successful. In Cobar, Macdonell was unopposed when re-elected on 7 October, but died three weeks later. The ALP candidate, Charles Fern was unopposed at the second by-election on 16 December. Denied further ministerial appointment Nielsen resigned from the seat of Yass and ALP candidate Greg McGirr won the resultant by-election on 19 July 1913.

Twenty-first Legislative Assembly 1907-1910
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1907–1910
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 21st parliament of New South Wales from 1907 to 1910. They were elected at the 1907 state election on 10 September 1907. The Speaker was Hon William McCourt.-References:...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
St George Joseph Carruthers
Joseph Carruthers
Sir Joseph Hector McNeil Carruthers KCMG was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.According to Percival Serle, few premiers of New South Wales succeeded in doing so much distinguished work...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Resigned 20 May 1908 William Taylor   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Sturt Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Griffith was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Resigned from parliament after a dispute with the Speaker
Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is Shelley Hancock, who was elected on 3 May 2011...

(21 November 1908) Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Griffith was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Northumberland Matthew Charlton
Matthew Charlton
Matthew Charlton was an Australian Labor Party politician.Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary education and then married Martha Rollings in 1889...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Resigned to successfully contest the federal seat of Hunter
Division of Hunter
The Division of Hunter is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in northern rural New South Wales, and encompasses much of the Hunter Valley region, including the towns of Singleton, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock and Denman...

 at the 1910 election
Australian federal election, 1910
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

(23 March 1910) William Kearsley
William Kearsley
William Kearsley was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1910 until 1921. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Darling Harbour John Norton
John Norton (Australian journalist)
John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...

  Independent Resigned to unsuccessfully contest a Senate seat at the 1910 election
Australian federal election, 1910
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

23 March 1910 John Cochran   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Queanbeyan Granville Ryrie
Granville Ryrie
Major General Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie KCMG, CB, VD was an Australian soldier and politician who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War.-Early life:...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Werriwa
Division of Werriwa
The Division of Werriwa is a Federal Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives.The name Werriwa derives from a local Aboriginal name for Lake George, which was located in the division when it was established in 1900. The division was one of the original 75 divisions first...

 at the 1910 election
Australian federal election, 1910
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

23 March 1910 John Cusack
John Cusack (Australian politician)
John Joseph Cusack was an Australian politician, coachbuilder and garage proprietor.-Early life:Cusack was born at Bellevale near Yass, New South Wales and had some schooling in Yass. He was apprenticed at 15 to a blacksmith at Berrima...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Upper Hunter William Fleming
William Fleming (Australian politician)
William Montgomerie Fleming was an Australian politician, who served in the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of New England
Division of New England
The Division of New England is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland. It includes such towns as Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Bundarra, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell,...

 at the 1910 election
Australian federal election, 1910
Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

23 March 1910 William Ashford
William Ashford (Australian politician)
William George Ashford was an Australian politician.Born at Sparks Creek near Scone to selector John Ashford and Rebecca Bell, he attended Sparks Creek Public School before starting work on his father's farm. He later bought a farm on the Hawkesbury River, but sold it to return to Sparks Creek...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Belmore Edward O'Sullivan
Edward William O'Sullivan
Edward William O'Sullivan was an Australian journalist and politician.As a politician, O'Sullivan had strong Labour sympathies before the Labor Party had developed in New South Wales, and worked untiringly for old-age pensions until they became law in 1900...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Death 21 May 1910 Patrick Minahan   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Twentieth Legislative Assembly 1904-1907
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1904–1907
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 20th parliament of New South Wales from 1904 to 1907. They were elected at the 1904 state election on 6 August 1904...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Rous John Coleman   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 11 February1905 George Hindmarsh   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Ashfield Frederick Winchcombe
Frederick Winchcombe
-Early life:F. E. Winchcombe was born on 26 April 1855 in Brunswick, Victoria. His parents were John Phillimore Winchcombe, a quarryman who immigrated from Wales, and Julia Sophia Earle...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Extended Absence visiting England 16 August 1905 William Robson   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Queanbeyan Alan Millard   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Criminal conviction: Fraud 7 April 1906 Granville Ryrie
Granville Ryrie
Major General Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie KCMG, CB, VD was an Australian soldier and politician who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War.-Early life:...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Surry Hills John Norton
John Norton (Australian journalist)
John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...

  Independent Challenged William Holman
William Holman
William Arthur Holman was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War I, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government.-Early life:Holman was born in St Pancras, London,...

 to face a by-election
21 July 1906 Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1906 until his death and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Cootamundra William Holman
William Holman
William Arthur Holman was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War I, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government.-Early life:Holman was born in St Pancras, London,...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Challenged to a by-election by John Norton
John Norton (Australian journalist)
John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...

17 July 1906 William Holman
William Holman
William Arthur Holman was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War I, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government.-Early life:Holman was born in St Pancras, London,...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Castlereagh Hugh Macdonald   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Death 24 November 1906 John Treflé   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Blayney Paddy Crick
Paddy Crick
William Patrick Crick, known as Paddy Crick or W.P.Crick was an Australian politician, solicitor and newspaper proprietor...

  Progressive Expelled after being accused of bribery 12 January 1907 John Withington   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...


Nineteenth Legislative Assembly 1901-1904
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1901–1904
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 19th parliament of New South Wales from 1901 to 1904. They were elected at the 1901 state election on 3 July 1901. The Speaker was Hon William McCourt.By-elections...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Condobolin Patrick Clara   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Election overturned on appeal 4 November 1901 Patrick Clara   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Sydney-Pyrmont Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith (Australian politician)
Samuel Smith was an Australian politicianBorn in Ayrshire, Scotland, to Samuel Smith and Marion Hunter, he attended school at Kilwinning and became a colliery lad at the age of eleven, becoming active in the Glasgow Railway and Seaman's Union...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Appointment to Arbitration Court 24 May 1902 John McNeill   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Inverell William McIntyre   Progressive Death 31 May 1902 George Jones   ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Balmain South Sydney Law
Sydney Law
Sydney James Law was an Australian politician.Born in Redfern to cabinet maker John Law and Sarah Pollard, he established what would become a highly successful drapery shop in Balmain around 1881. On 4 July 1883 he married Mary Maclean, with whom he had two children...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
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Refused Caucus solidarity pledge 06 December 1902 Sydney Law
Sydney Law
Sydney James Law was an Australian politician.Born in Redfern to cabinet maker John Law and Sarah Pollard, he established what would become a highly successful drapery shop in Balmain around 1881. On 4 July 1883 he married Mary Maclean, with whom he had two children...

  Independent Labor
Tamworth Raymond Walsh   Progressive Bankruptcy 04 April 1903 John Garland   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Willoughby George Howarth   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Bankruptcy 9 September 1903 Charles Wade
Charles Wade
Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG was Premier of New South Wales 2 October 1907 – 21 October 1910. According to Percival Serle, "Wade was a public-spirited man of high character...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Glen Innes Francis Wright   Progressive Death 28 October 1903 Follet Thomas   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Waratah Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Hill Griffith
Arthur Griffith was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Unsuccessful candidate for Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

 at federal election
5 December 1903 Matthew Charlton
Matthew Charlton
Matthew Charlton was an Australian Labor Party politician.Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary education and then married Martha Rollings in 1889...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Armidale Edmund Lonsdale
Edmund Lonsdale
Edmund Lonsdale was an Australian politician. Born in Morpeth, New South Wales, he was schooled in Maitland before becoming a bricklayer, builder and contractor. He was also an alderman on Armidale Shire Council...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Successful candidate for New England
Division of New England
The Division of New England is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland. It includes such towns as Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Bundarra, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell,...

 at federal election
12 December 1903 Sydney Kearney
Sydney Kearney
Sydney John Kearney was an Australian politician.Born in Sydney to solicitor Timothy John Kearney and Sarah Margaret Trim, he attended New England Grammar School and St Joseph's College, after which he was articled as a clerk to his father in 1889...

  Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Moree William Webster
William Webster (Australian politician)
William Webster was an Australian politician. Born in Everton, Lancashire in England, he was the son of John Webster, a labourer, and Elizabeth, née Poynton. Leaving school at 13, Webster migrated to New South Wales in 1879 and, having quarried stone at Pyrmont and saved prodigiously, was able to...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Successful candidate for Gwydir at federal election 12 December 1903 Percy Stirton   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Illawarra Archibald Campbell   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Death 9 January 1904 Edward Allen   Liberal Reform
Liberal Reform Party (Australia)
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time...

Ryde Frank Farnell   Independent Liberal Appointment to Fisheries Board 23 January 1904 Edward Terry
Edward Terry (Australian politician)
Edward Terry was an Australian politician.Born at Box Hill near Rouse Hill to landowner John Terry and Eleanor Rouse, he would marry Isabel Benson, with whom he had thirteen children. He owned the Eastwood Estate from around 1863 and built a racecourse at Eastwood...

  Independent Liberal

Eighteenth Legislative Assembly 1898-1901
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1898–1901
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 18th parliament of New South Wales from 1898 to 1901. They were elected at the 1898 state election on 27 July 1898...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Hastings and Macleay Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke was an Australian politician. Born in Stroud, New South Wales, the son of Thomas Clarke and Ellen Walsh. He attended St Stanislaus College at Bathurst before becoming a surveyor. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1898, representing the seats of...

  National Federal
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned to give Barton a seat 23 September 1898 Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia....

  National Federal
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Parramatta William Ferris   Independent Federalist Election declared void on appeal 26 October 1898 William Ferris   Independent Federalist
Northumberland Richard Stevenson   National Federal
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 20 July 1899 John Norton
John Norton (Australian journalist)
John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...

  Independent
Boorowa James Mackay
James Mackay (Australian politician)
Major-General James Alexander Kenneth Mackay CB, OBE, VD was an Australian politician.Born at Wallendenbeen Station near Cootamundra to pastoralist Alexander Mackay and Annie Mackenzie, he attended Camden College and Sydney Grammar School before farming at his father's property...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Appointed to Legislative Council
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

23 September 1899 Niels Nielson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Hastings and Macleay Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia....

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned to take Constitution to London 01 March 1900 Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke was an Australian politician. Born in Stroud, New South Wales, the son of Thomas Clarke and Ellen Walsh. He attended St Stanislaus College at Bathurst before becoming a surveyor. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1898, representing the seats of...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Sydney-Phillip Henry Copeland   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

accepted post as Agent-General in London 7 April 1900 Daniel O'Connor
Daniel O'Connor (politician)
The Honourable Daniel O'Connor JP was an Irish-born politician and businessman active in colonial-era New South Wales.-Early life and education:...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Canterbury Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes was an Australian politician.He was born in Ryde, the seventh child of Henry Parkes and Clarinda Varney. He attended public schools and then The King's School in Parramatta before working at the Bank of New South Wales and the Colonial Architect's Office...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Resignation 9 June 1900 Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (Australian politician)
-Early years:Born in Colyton, near Penrith, west of Sydney, the son of a hotel keeper, Smith was educated at public schools before gaining work with the railways...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Uralla-Walcha William Henry Piddington   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resignation 9 June 1900 William Henry Piddington   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Bathurst Francis Bathurst Suttor
Francis Bathurst Suttor
Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor was an Australian pastoralist, politician, and sheep and horse breeder.-Early life:...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Appointed to Legislative Council 25 June 1900 William Young   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Canterbury Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (Australian politician)
-Early years:Born in Colyton, near Penrith, west of Sydney, the son of a hotel keeper, Smith was educated at public schools before gaining work with the railways...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

By-election result voided on appeal 28 July 1900 Thomas Taylor   Independent
William Davis   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resignation 15 September 1900 William Davis   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Uralla-Walcha William Henry Piddington   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 27 October 1900 Michael MacMahon   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Ashfield Bernhard Wise   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Appointed to Legislative Council 10 November 1900 Frederick Winchcombe
Frederick Winchcombe
-Early life:F. E. Winchcombe was born on 26 April 1855 in Brunswick, Victoria. His parents were John Phillimore Winchcombe, a quarryman who immigrated from Wales, and Julia Sophia Earle...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Hume William Lyne
William Lyne
Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Successfully contested Hume
Division of Hume
The Division of Hume is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located in the central part of the state, just north of the Australian Capital Territory. The Division covers a predominantly rural area, with agriculture and coal mining the main industries...

 at 1901 Federal election
17/04/1901 Gordon McLaurin   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...


Seventeenth Legislative Assembly 1895-1898
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1895–1898
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 17th parliament of New South Wales from 1895 to 1898. They were elected at the 1895 state election on 24 July 1895. The Speaker was Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Rylstone John Fitzpatrick
John Fitzpatrick (New South Wales politician)
John Charles Lucas Fitzpatrick was an Australian politician and journalist.Fitzpatrick was born in Moama in the Riverina region of New South Wales, but his family moved to Windsor in 1869. He was educated at a catholic school and he was apprenticed to the former Australian newspaper's Windsor...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Election result voided on appeal 14 October 1895 John Fitzpatrick
John Fitzpatrick (New South Wales politician)
John Charles Lucas Fitzpatrick was an Australian politician and journalist.Fitzpatrick was born in Moama in the Riverina region of New South Wales, but his family moved to Windsor in 1869. He was educated at a catholic school and he was apprenticed to the former Australian newspaper's Windsor...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Sydney-Phillip Richard Meagher
Richard Meagher
Richard Denis Meagher MLA was an Australian solicitor and was Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1916 to 1917.-Early life:...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Disgraced during Dean Affair
George Dean (poisoner)
George Dean was a ferry-boat master in Sydney, Australia, who was charged with attempting to poisoning his wife. A large part of the Sydney public came to believe that Dean was innocent and that his wife and her mother had conspired against him...

17 October 1895 Henry Copeland   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Waverley Angus Cameron   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 18 February 1896 Thomas Jessup   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Cowra Dennis Donnelly   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 27 March 1896 Michael Phillips   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Lachlan James Carroll
James Carroll (Australian politician)
James George Carroll was an Australian politician.Born in Tipperary, Ireland, to James and Katherine Carroll, he arrived in Australia in 1867 having received a primary education. He worked as a saddler in Hillston from 1876 until 1883, when he became the licensee of Tattersall's Hotel. He married...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Financial difficulties (11 September 1896) James Carroll
James Carroll (Australian politician)
James George Carroll was an Australian politician.Born in Tipperary, Ireland, to James and Katherine Carroll, he arrived in Australia in 1867 having received a primary education. He worked as a saddler in Hillston from 1876 until 1883, when he became the licensee of Tattersall's Hotel. He married...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Narrabri Charles Collins   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 3 June 1898 Hugh Ross   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Sydney-Fitzroy John McElhone   Independent Free Trade Death 3 June 1898 John Norton
John Norton (Australian journalist)
John Norton, , was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...


Sixteenth Legislative Assembly 1894-1895
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1894–1895
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 16th parliament of New South Wales from 1894 to 1895 They were elected at the 1894 state election on 17 July 1894. The Speaker was Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott....

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Grenfell George Greene   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Election result overturned on appeal (no by-election) (25 October 1894) Michael Loughnane   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Willoughby Joseph Cullen   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial difficulty 30 November 1894 Edward Clark
Edward Clark (Australian politician)
Edward Mann Clark was an Australian politician.Born in Hobart to William and Selina Clark, he attended Oldfield's Commercial Academy until he was twelve, when he moved to Sydney following his father's death. On 24 January 1874 he married Mary Jenkins, with whom he had eight children; he would...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Tweed John Willard   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Not a resident of NSW 29 November 1894 Joseph Kelly   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Boorowa Thomas Slattery   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned 15 January 1895 James Mackay
James Mackay (Australian politician)
Major-General James Alexander Kenneth Mackay CB, OBE, VD was an Australian politician.Born at Wallendenbeen Station near Cootamundra to pastoralist Alexander Mackay and Annie Mackenzie, he attended Camden College and Sydney Grammar School before farming at his father's property...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Bowral William McCourt   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned (19 February 1895) William McCourt   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Canterbury Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes was an Australian politician.He was born in Ryde, the seventh child of Henry Parkes and Clarinda Varney. He attended public schools and then The King's School in Parramatta before working at the Bank of New South Wales and the Colonial Architect's Office...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Resigned (14 June 1895) Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes was an Australian politician.He was born in Ryde, the seventh child of Henry Parkes and Clarinda Varney. He attended public schools and then The King's School in Parramatta before working at the Bank of New South Wales and the Colonial Architect's Office...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...


Fifteenth Legislative Assembly 1891-1894
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1891–1894
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 15th parliament of New South Wales from 1891 to 1894 They were elected at the 1891 state election between 17 June and 3 July 1891...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Central Cumberland Robert Ritchie   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 29 August 1891 Jacob Garrard   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Canterbury John Wheeler   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Election result overturned on appeal (no by-election) (02 September 1891) James Eve   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Illawarra John Nicholson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Previous result voided on appeal 03 October 1891 John Nicholson   ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Illawarra Andrew Lysaght
Andrew Lysaght, senior
Andrew Lysaght was an Australian politician.Born in Fairy Meadow, he spent many years as a publican of the Queens Hotel in Wollongong. An alderman of Northern Illawarra Council who served several terms as mayor, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1885 as the member for...

  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

Previous result voided on appeal 03 October 1891 Archibald Campbell   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Bourke James Howe   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned 04 December 1891 Thomas Waddell
Thomas Waddell
Thomas Waddell , an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1887 to 1917, was briefly the Premier of New South Wales during 1904, and was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1917 to 1934.-Early life:He was born in County Monaghan,...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Bogan George Cass   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 31 May 1892 William A'Beckett   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Hawkesbury Alexander Bowman   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 23 July 1892 Sydney Burdekin   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

East Macquarie James Tonkin   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty 13 August 1892 James Tonkin   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

South Sydney James Toohey   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned 13 February 1893 William Manning   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Murrumbidgee George Dibbs
George Dibbs
Sir George Richard Dibbs KCMG was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales on three occasions.-Early years:Dibbs was born in Sydney, son of Captain John Dibbs, who disappeared in the same year...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Financial Difficulty (06 April 1893) George Dibbs
George Dibbs
Sir George Richard Dibbs KCMG was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales on three occasions.-Early years:Dibbs was born in Sydney, son of Captain John Dibbs, who disappeared in the same year...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Central Cumberland John Nobbs   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty 06 May 1893 George McCredie   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Macleay Otho Dangar   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Financial Difficulty 29 May 1893 Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke was an Australian politician. Born in Stroud, New South Wales, the son of Thomas Clarke and Ellen Walsh. He attended St Stanislaus College at Bathurst before becoming a surveyor. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1898, representing the seats of...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...


Fourteenth Legislative Assembly 1889-1891
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1889–1891
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 14th parliament of New South Wales from 1889 to 1891 They were elected at the 1889 state election between 1 and 16 February 1889...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Tamworth Robert Levien   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Sought a new mandate after being involved in a legal scandal (18 June 1889) Robert Levien   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Central Cumberland John Linsley   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 22 July 1889 David Dale   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Redfern John Sutherland   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 08 July 1889 William Schey
William Schey
William Francis Schey was an Australian politician.Schey was born in England and educated in London. After a short time in New Zealand, Schey arrived in Sydney as first mate of a ship in 1875...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Central Cumberland Frank Farnell   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial difficulty (05 October 1889) Frank Farnell   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Newcastle William Grahame
William Grahame (1841-1906)
William Grahame was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 until 1894 and a member of the Protectionist Party....

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Financial Difficulty 12 October 1889 James Curley
James Curley (Australian politician)
James Curley was an Australian politician.He was elected as the member for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at a by-election in 1889. He remained in office for less than two years.-References:...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Monaro Harold Stephen   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 17 December 1889 Gus Miller   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Hastings and Manning Charles Roberts   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Resigned 05 April 1890 Walter Vivian   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Balmain John Hawthorn
John Hawthorne (Australian politician)
John Stuart Hawthorne was an Australian politician.Born in Sydney to James Hawthorne and Jane Elkins, he attended Cleveland Street Public School before working with a softgoods firm, establishing his own business in 1875. In that year he married Mary Emily Meyn at Singleton, with whom he had nine...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty (12 July 1890) John Hawthorn
John Hawthorne (Australian politician)
John Stuart Hawthorne was an Australian politician.Born in Sydney to James Hawthorne and Jane Elkins, he attended Cleveland Street Public School before working with a softgoods firm, establishing his own business in 1875. In that year he married Mary Emily Meyn at Singleton, with whom he had nine...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Hartley John Hurley   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty 22 July 1890 John Hurley   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Namoi Thomas Dangar Jr.   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 31 July 1890 Charles Collins   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Goulburn   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 16 August 1890 Cecil Teece   Independent
West Sydney Alfred Lamb   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 25 October 1890 Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

  Independent
West Macquarie Paddy Crick
Paddy Crick
William Patrick Crick, known as Paddy Crick or W.P.Crick was an Australian politician, solicitor and newspaper proprietor...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Expelled for outrageous behaviour in the chamber 6 December 1890 Paddy Crick
Paddy Crick
William Patrick Crick, known as Paddy Crick or W.P.Crick was an Australian politician, solicitor and newspaper proprietor...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Newcastle James Fletcher
James Fletcher (Australian politician)
James Fletcher was an Australian coalminer and owner, newspaper proprietor and politician.Fletcher was born in Dalkeith, East Lothian, Scotland and migrated to Australia in February 1851, first working in the goldfields and later in the Newcastle area as a coalminer. He married Isabella Birrell...

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 14 April 1891 William Grahame
William Grahame (1841-1906)
William Grahame was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 until 1894 and a member of the Protectionist Party....

  Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

East Sydney John Street   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 14 April 1891 Walter Bradley   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Wellington David Ferguson   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 29 May 1891 Thomas York   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...


Thirteenth Legislative Assembly 1887-1889
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1887–1889
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 13th parliament of New South Wales from 1887 to 1889 They were elected at the 1887 state election between 4 and 26 February 1887. The Speaker was Hon James Young...

By-election Incumbent |Party Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election |Party
Mudgee Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Accepted position as Examiner of Patents 11 May 1887 John Haynes   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Wentworth William MacGregor   Independent Free Trade Resigned 28 September 1887 Thomas Browne   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

St Leonards Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty (25 October 1887) Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Central Cumberland Andrew McCulloch   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial difficulty 28 December 1887 Andrew McCulloch   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Paddington William Trickett   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Appointed to Legislative Council 12 January 1888 William Allen   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Newtown Frederick Gibbes   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Death 3 February 1888 Joseph Abbott   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Newtown William Foster   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Appointed Supreme Court Judge 25 February 1888 Joseph Mitchell   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Central Cumberland Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes was an Australian politician.He was born in Ryde, the seventh child of Henry Parkes and Clarinda Varney. He attended public schools and then The King's School in Parramatta before working at the Bank of New South Wales and the Colonial Architect's Office...

  Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Business Commitments 14 March 1888 John Nobbs   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Central Cumberland Andrew McCulloch   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Financial Difficulty 15 May 1888 David Buchanan   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Redfern James Farnell   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

Death 8 September 1888 James Howe   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Gunnedah Thomas Goodwin   Protectionist
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...

Resigned 12 September 1888 Edwin Turner   Free Trade
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...


No party system was discernible in the New South Wales parliament before the election of 1887


Twelfth Legislative Assembly 1885-1887
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1885–1887
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1885 to 1887. Elections for the twelfth Legislative Assembly were held between 16 and 31 October 1885 with parliament first meeting on 17 November 1985...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Young  William Watson  Election result overturned by the Qualifications Committee (no by-election) (22 December 1885) James MacKinnon
Gwydir  William Campbell  Resigned 10 June 1886 Thomas Hassall
Mudgee John Robertson Retired (ill-health, financial difficulties and loss of premiership) (2 July 1886) William Wall
William Wall (Australian politician)
William Chandos Wall was an Australian politician. He was also a prospector, geologist, minerals surveyor, commission / mining agent, inventor and a quarry and mine operator before and after entering politics...

Wollombi  Lyall Scott Retired (ill-health) 17 December 1886 Richard Stevenson
Yass Plains  Louis Heydon  Retired 20 December 1886 Thomas Colls
New England   William Proctor Resigned 10 January 1887 William Proctor
Kiama   Harman Tarrant  Resigned 13 January 1887 Angus Cameron

Eleventh Legislative Assembly 1882-1885
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1882–1885
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1882 to 1885. Elections for the eleventh Legislative Assembly were held between 30 November and 21 December 1882 with parliament first meeting on 3 January 1983...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Newtown  Henry Copeland Ministerial (defeated) 13 January 1883 Joseph Mitchell
East Sydney  John McElhone  Elected to two seats 23 January 1883 Henry Copeland
Mudgee Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

Challenged John McElhone to resign 6 March 1883 Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

Upper Hunter John McElhone Challenged by Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus Taylor
Adolphus George Taylor was an Australian journalist and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

 to resign
6 March 1883 John McElhone
Glebe  George Allen
George Wigram Allen
Sir George Wigram Allen KCMG was an Australian politician and philanthropist. He was Speaker in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1875–1883....

 
Prolonged voyage to England. 26 August 1883 Michael Chapman
Bathurst   Francis Bathurst Suttor
Francis Bathurst Suttor
Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor was an Australian pastoralist, politician, and sheep and horse breeder.-Early life:...

 
Found to have a position of profit under the crown (11 February 1884) Francis Bathurst Suttor
Francis Bathurst Suttor
Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor was an Australian pastoralist, politician, and sheep and horse breeder.-Early life:...

East Sydney   George Reid
George Reid (Australian politician)
Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia....

Found to have a position of profit under the crown 29 February 1884 Sydney Burdekin
Canterbury  William Pigott Resigned (private work commitments) 19 April 1884 Mark Hammond
Mark Hammond (Australian politician)
Mark John Hammond was an Australian politician.Born in Sydney, he received a brief education at Newtown before following his father to the Braidwood gold diggings in 1852; the family moved to Sofala in 1853. He became a blacksmith and jockey and joined a Hill End mining company in 1868...

Gundagai Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith (Australian politician)
Arthur Bruce Smith KC was a long serving Australian politician and leading political opponent of the White Australia policy.-Early life:...

 
Resigned 22 April 1884 James Watson
Northumberland   Atkinson Tighe Resigned 26 May 1884 Richard Luscombe
West Macquarie Thomas Hellyer Resigned 2 July 1884 Lewis Lloyd
Monaro   Robert Tooth
Robert Tooth
Robert Tooth was one of three brothers of Sydney's Tooth brewery family. He built two of Sydney's grandest houses, Cranbrook House and The Swifts.-Early life:...

 
Resigned (24 July 1884) David Ryrie
Tenterfield   Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

Resigned, claiming that he was retiring from politics (24 November 1884) Charles Lee
Carcoar  Andrew Lynch Death 21 November 1884 Ezekial Baker
Argyle John Gannon  Ill health 31 March 1885 Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

St Leonards Bernhardt Holtermann
Bernhardt Holtermann
Bernhardt Otto Holtermann was a successful gold miner, businessman, and politician in Australia...

 
Death 4 June 1885 Ezekial Baker
Canterbury   Henry Moses  Accepted nomination to the Legislative Council 16 September 1885 William Henson
Central Cumberland John Lackey  Accepted nomination to the Legislative Council 24 September 1885 Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes
Varney Parkes was an Australian politician.He was born in Ryde, the seventh child of Henry Parkes and Clarinda Varney. He attended public schools and then The King's School in Parramatta before working at the Bank of New South Wales and the Colonial Architect's Office...

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Tenth Legislative Assembly 1880-1882
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1880–1882
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1880 to 1882. Elections for the tenth Legislative Assembly were held between 17 November and 10 December 1880 with parliament first meeting on 15 December 1880...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Queanbeyan  James Thompson
James Thompson (Australian politician)
James Thompson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term between 1856 and 1857.-Early life:...

Resigned 21 January 1881 Thomas Rutledge
Carcoar   Ezekial Baker Expelled after he had been found to have fraudulently dealt with trust funds 1 December 1881 George Campbell
Newtown   Steven Brown  Appointed to the Legislative Council 1 December 1881 Joseph Mitchell
Argyle Phillip Myers  Death 9 December 1881 John Gannon
Yass Plains Michael Fitzpatrick Death 10 January 1882 Louis Heydon
Redfern John Sutherland Appointed to the Legislative Council 11 January 1882 Francis Wright
Mudgee   Samuel Terry  Appointed to the Legislative Council (20 January 1882) John Robertson
Northumberland William Turner Resigned (He was supported by the local coal miners union, however the subscriptions were insufficient to support him in th assembly) 18 January 1882 Thomas Hungerford
East Macquarie   Edmund Webb Appointed to the Legislative Council 19 January 1882 Alfred Pechey
Wentworth William Brodribb Appointed to the Legislative Council 23 January 1882 Edwin Quin
Tenterfield John Dillon Resigned 6 February 1882 Augustus Fraser
East Macquarie   Alfred Pechey Death 11 July 1882 Harman Tarrant
Tumut   James Hoskins Resigned to take a recuperative sea voyage 17 October 1882 Thomas O'Mara
Gundagai  William Forster Death 23 November 1882 Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith (Australian politician)
Arthur Bruce Smith KC was a long serving Australian politician and leading political opponent of the White Australia policy.-Early life:...


Ninth Legislative Assembly 1877-1880
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1877–1880
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1877 to 1880. Elections for the ninth Legislative Assembly were held between 24 October and 12 November 1877 with parliament first meeting on 27 November 1877. There were 73 members elected for 53 single member electorates,...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
East Macquarie John Robertson Elected to two seats, 1 February 1878 Edmund Webb
East Maitland   Stephen Scholey
Stephen Scholey
Stephen Scholey was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was born in Garden street, Holbeck village, near Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and died at East Maitland, New South Wales.-Family:...

Death 5 June 1878 Henry Badgery
Mudgee   John Robertson Appointed to the Legislative Council 6 January 1879 Richard Rouse
Orange  Edward Combes Found to have an office of profit under the crown 4 March 1879 Andrew Kerr
Mudgee Richard Rouse  Result overturned by the Qualifications Committee (no by-election) (7 March 1879) David Buchanan
East Macquarie William Suttor, Jr. Resigned 15 August 1879 Edward Combes
University of Sydney  William Windeyer
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a...

Accepted a position as a Judge of the Supreme Court  26 August 1879 Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia....

East Sydney Alexander Stuart
Alexander Stuart (Australian politician)
Sir Alexander Stuart KCMG was Premier of New South Wales from 5 January 1883 to 7 October 1885.-Early years:Stuart was born at Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Stuart and his wife Mary, née McKnight. Stuart was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and attended the University of Edinburgh, but did not...

Accepted position as Agent-General in London 17 December 1879 Arthur Renwick
Paddington   John Sutherland Found to have a position of profit under the crown 20 February 1880 William Hezlet
Clarence   Thomas Bawden Found to have a position of profit under the crown 7 April 1880 Charles Fawcett
Charles Fawcett
Sir Charles Fawcett was a British historian. He served in the Indian Civil Service whilst India was a part of the British Empire. He published a number of articles and books related to Indian history and was an expert on the British East India Company...

Northumberland  Thomas Hungerford Resigned ( attend to personal business matters) 30 April 1880 Ninian Melville
Ninian Melville
Ninian Melville Junior was a colourful Australian politician in the late nineteenth century.The son of a Scottish cabinet maker who had been transported to Australia for stealing clothes, Melville was born in Sydney and followed his father into the furniture making business...

Kiama   Samuel Charles  Prolonged voyage to Europe 2 July 1880 Harman Tarrant
Illawarra   Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray (Australian politician)
Samuel William Gray was an Irish Australian pastoralist, farmer and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kiama , Illawarra and The Richmond .- Biography :...

 
Resigned 7 July 1880 Alexander Stuart
Alexander Stuart (Australian politician)
Sir Alexander Stuart KCMG was Premier of New South Wales from 5 January 1883 to 7 October 1885.-Early years:Stuart was born at Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Stuart and his wife Mary, née McKnight. Stuart was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and attended the University of Edinburgh, but did not...

Windsor   Richard Driver
Richard Driver
Richard Driver was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator.Driver was born in Cabramatta, New South Wales, son of Richard Driver, hotel-keeper, and his wife Elizabeth, née Powell...

Death 29 July 1880 Henry McQuade

Eighth Legislative Assembly 1874-1877
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1877. Elections for the eighth Legislative Assembly were held between 8 December 1874 and 12 January 1875 with parliament first meeting on 27 January 1875. There were 72 members elected for 52 single member...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Paterson William Arnold
William Munnings Arnold
The Hon. William Munning Arnold was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 until his death. He held numerous ministerial positions between 1860 and 1865 including Secretary for Public Works and Secretary for Lands...

Death 18 March 1875 Herbert Brown
Upper Hunter  Francis White Death 7 June 1875 Thomas Hungerford
Central Cumberland   Joseph Wearne Financial difficulties 28 June1875 William Long
Upper Hunter Thomas Hungerford Result voided by Qualifications Committee 31 March 1873 Thomas Robertson
Murrumbidgee  William Forster Accepted the position of assistant to the Agent-General Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

(6 March 1876) Joseph Leary
Joseph Leary
Joseph Leary , Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.Leary was born in 1831 in Sydney, and was educated at St. Mary's Seminary, at Sydney College under Mr. Cape, and for two years at the Sydney University...

Parramatta  Hugh Taylor  Resigned as he believed he had a position of profit under the crown 20 April 1876 Hugh Taylor
Hartley Thomas Brown Found to have held a position of profit under the crown 21 April 1876 John Hurley
Liverpool Plains   Hanley Bennett Financial difficulties 5 June 1876 Hanley Bennett
Carcoar   Solomon Meyer Resigned in May 1876 (21 June 1876) Andrew Lynch
University of Sydney  New Seat 8 September 1876 William Windeyer
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a...

Mudgee  Stephen Goold  Death 5 October 1876 Richard Rouse
Williams   William Watson Resigned February 1877 William Johnston
Orange   Harris Nelson  Resigned (22 February 1877) Edward Combes
Northumberland Charles Stevens Financial difficulties 20 July 1877 William Turner

Seventh Legislative Assembly 1872-1874
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1872–1874
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1872 to 1874. Elections for the seventh Legislative Assembly were held between 13 February and 28 March 1872 with parliament first meeting on 30 April 1872. There were 72 members elected for 52 single member electorates, 6...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Parramatta  Hugh Taylor  Disqualified himself at the declaration of the poll as he had a position of profit under the crown (22 May 1872) Hugh Taylor
East Sydney Saul Samuel
Saul Samuel
Sir Saul Samuel CMG, KCMG, CB was an Australian colonial merchant, member of parliament, pastoralist, and prominent Jew...

Appointed to the Legislative Council 12 June 1872 George Oakes
Murray   Patrick Jennings Resigned 5 August 1872 William Hay
William Hay (Australian politician)
William Hay was an Australian politician.Hay was born in Banffshire, Scotland, educated at the University of Aberdeen and arrived in Sydney in 1838. He was elected as the member for the Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1872 and held the seat to 1877. He held it again from...

Hume  James McLaurin  Resigned 31 March 1873 Thomas Robertson
Mudgee Joseph Innes Appointed to the Legislative Council 8 September 1873 Joseph O'Connor
East Macquarie James Martin
James Martin (Australian politician)
Sir James Martin, KCB, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.-Early career:...

 
Accepted appointment as Chief Justice
Chief Justice of New South Wales
The Chief Justice of New South Wales is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of New South Wales. The Chief Justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Court as well as the administrative head...

1 December 1873 Walter Cooper
East Sydney James Neale Resigned 15 July 1874 Charles Moore
West Maitland Benjamin Lee  Financial difficulties 4 August 1874 Lewis Levy

Sixth Legislative Assembly 1869-1872
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1869–1872
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1869 to 1872. Elections for the sixth Legislative Assembly were held between 3 December 1869 and 10 January 1870 with parliament first meeting on 27 January 1870. There were 72 members elected for 52 single member...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
East Sydney  Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

Elected to two seats 23 February 1870 John Wilson
West Sydney  John Robertson  Financial difficulties 2 March 1870 John Robertson
Goldfields North Robert Wisdom  Elected to two seats 18 April 1870 Robert Forster
Goldfields South  Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker was a master gunsmith from Whitechapel, London, who became known for his design of the Baker rifle in 1800.The British Army had been experimenting with rifles since the American Revolutionary War but had found all available rifle designs either too fragile, cumbersome or slow firing...

Resigned (11 July 1870) Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker was a master gunsmith from Whitechapel, London, who became known for his design of the Baker rifle in 1800.The British Army had been experimenting with rifles since the American Revolutionary War but had found all available rifle designs either too fragile, cumbersome or slow firing...

Hastings  Horace Dean
Horace Dean
Horace Dean was an American, who practiced as a doctor in Australia and was a journalist and political candidate at elections in South Australia and New South Wales.Dean was born in Chicago...

 
Found to have held an office of profit under the crown 4 July 1870 Horace Dean
Horace Dean
Horace Dean was an American, who practiced as a doctor in Australia and was a journalist and political candidate at elections in South Australia and New South Wales.Dean was born in Chicago...

Wollombi  Joseph Eckford  Financial difficulties 19 September 1870 Joseph Eckford
Hastings  Horace Dean
Horace Dean
Horace Dean was an American, who practiced as a doctor in Australia and was a journalist and political candidate at elections in South Australia and New South Wales.Dean was born in Chicago...

Election overturned as not a British subject (no by-election) (4 July 1870) Robert Smith
Braidwood  Michael Kelly Result voided due to electoral irregularities 17 October 1870 Edward Greville
Kiama  Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

Financial difficulties 3 November 1870 Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

Monaro Daniel Egan
Daniel Egan
Daniel Egan was an Australian politician. Egan served as Mayor of Sydney in 1853 and was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

Death 17 November 1870 James Hart
Goldfields South Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker was a master gunsmith from Whitechapel, London, who became known for his design of the Baker rifle in 1800.The British Army had been experimenting with rifles since the American Revolutionary War but had found all available rifle designs either too fragile, cumbersome or slow firing...

Accepted appointment to the Goldfields Royal Commission 12 December 1870 Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker
Ezekiel Baker was a master gunsmith from Whitechapel, London, who became known for his design of the Baker rifle in 1800.The British Army had been experimenting with rifles since the American Revolutionary War but had found all available rifle designs either too fragile, cumbersome or slow firing...

Canterbury  Montagu Stephen Prolonged visit to England 6 January 1871 John Lucas
John Lucas (Australian politician)
John Lucas was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1869 and 1871 to 1880 and the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1880 until his death. He was a member for Canterbury from 1860 to 1864 and from 1871 to 1880 and a member for Hartley...

Kiama  Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

 
Financial difficulties (12 January 1871) John Stewart
Liverpool Plains Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

 
Accepted the position of Agent-General in London 9 January 1871 Lewis Levy
Shoalhaven  Thomas Garrett Accepted the position of Police Magistrate at Berrima (28 August 1871) James Warden
New England Charles Weaver  Resigned 28 August 1871 Samuel Terry
Mudgee  Matthew Stephen  Resigned 2 January 1872 Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...


Fifth Legislative Assembly 1864-1869
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1864–1869
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elected for the 5th Legislative Assembly at the 1864 colonial election.By-elections...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Canterbury  John Lucas
John Lucas (Australian politician)
John Lucas was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1869 and 1871 to 1880 and the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1880 until his death. He was a member for Canterbury from 1860 to 1864 and from 1871 to 1880 and a member for Hartley...

Elected to two seats 24 February 1865 James Pemell
Monaro  James Martin
James Martin (Australian politician)
Sir James Martin, KCB, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.-Early career:...

Elected to two seats (10 April 1865) William Grahame
William Grahame (1808-1890)
William Grahame was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1865 until 1869 and from 1872 until 1874. He was also a life member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1875 until 1889.Grahame was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland and...

Gwydir  Thomas Dangar Jr. Position of profit under the crown 29 June 1865 Thomas Dangar Jr.
West Sydney 1  John Darvall
John Darvall
John Darvall was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865...

Retired to England 07 July 1865 Geoffrey Eagar
Geoffrey Eagar
Geoffrey Eagar was an accountant and Treasurer of the Government of New South Wales, Australia.Eagar was born in Sydney, son of Edward, an emancipated convict who helped found the Westpac Bank, then known as the Bank of New South Wales. Edward left Australia to take a legal battle over the rights...

West Sydney 2  John Robertson  Financial Difficulty (20 October 1865) John Robertson
Yass Plains  Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett was an Australian barrister, jurist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1888 and 1894 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1865. He held the position of Solicitor-General in the first government of...

Appointed as a judge in the New South Wales Supreme Court (06 November 1865) Robert Isaacs
West Sydney  John Robertson Ministerial by-election 17 January 1866 William Charles Windeyer
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a...

Williams 1  Marshall Burdekin Ministerial by-election 22 January 1866 Frederick Manton
Williams 2  Frederick Manton Financial Difficulty 19 April 1866 John Nowlan
Tumut  Charles Cowper Jnr Absent from parliament without leave 20 August 1866 Edward Brown
Clarence  John Laycock Cause of resignation is unknown 27 August 1866 John Robertson
Illawarra  Patrick Osborne Prolonged trip to England 06 September 1866 John Stewart
East Sydney  John Caldwell Financial Difficulty (24 September 1866) Robert Stewart
Bathurst  James Kemp Cause of resignation is unknown (24 December 1866) William Suttor
Goldfields West  Stephen Donnelly
Stephen Donnelly
Stephen Donnelly is an Irish independent politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Wicklow constituency at the 2011 general election...

Cause of resignation is unknown 26 February 1867 George Thornton
East Sydney  Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

Financial Difficulty 20 March 1867 Marshall Burdekin
Central Cumberland  John Hay Appointed to the Legislative Council
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

27 June 1867 John Lackey
Orange  William Forlonge Financial Difficulty 01 July 1867 George McKay
East Macquarie  David Buchanan Traveled to England to study for the bar 26 August 1867 John Suttor
Upper Hunter  James White Prolonged trip to England 06 June 1868 Archibald Bell
Archibald Bell Jr.
-Life and Family:Son of Archibald Bell senior and his wife Maria Kitching. He and his family arrived in New South Wales in 1807, his father being an officer of the New South Wales Corps. Married Francis Ann, daughter of Samuel North a police magistrate at Windsor. Commissioned as a Justice of the...

Illawarra  George Pickering Cause of resignation is unknown 06 July 1868 James Hoskins
Canterbury  James Pemell Cause of resignation is unknown (19 September 1868) Richard Hill
West Sydney  Samuel Joseph Prolonged trip to England 15 December 1868 William Campbell
Central Cumberland  Allan Macpherson
Allan Macpherson
Allan Macpherson of Blairgowrie , was born at Blairgowrie, Scotland.He went to Sydney, Australia with his parents Willam and Jessie Macpherson in 1829 where he attended Cape's School and later acquired the rural properties of Keera near Bingara, New South Wales and Mount Abundance near Roma in...

Cause of resignation is unknown 17 December 1868 Samuel Lyons
Goldfields West  George Thornton Prolonged trip to England 15 February 1869 Walter Church
Braidwood  Joshua Josephson Appointed a district court judge (25 September 1869) Michael Kelly

Fourth Legislative Assembly 1860-1864
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1860–1864
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1864:This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1864:...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Parramatta James Byrnes
James Byrnes (Australian politician)
James Byrnes was an Australian politician. He was an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1851 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods totaling 10 years between 1857 and 1872...

Resigned (unhappy that he was the second member elected for the seat) 10 April 1861 Arthur Holroyd
Arthur Holroyd
Arthur Todd Holroyd was an Australian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1852 and 1856. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods between 1856 and 1857 and again between 1861 and 1864.-Early life:Holroyd...

Upper Hunter  John Robertson Appointed to the Legislative Council 15 April 1861 Thomas Dangar
East Sydney  Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

 
Accepted position as immigration promoter in England 29 May 1861 William Forster
Goulburn  Charles Walsh Resigned as he had achieved his aim of Legislative Council reform 13 June 1861 Maurice Alexander
Patrick's Plains  William Lesley Resigned (8 July 1861) Joseph Harpur
Newtown  Alexander McArthur
Alexander McArthur
Alexander McArthur was an Australian and British businessman and politician in both countries.McArthur was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of John McArthur, a Wesleyan minister, and his wife Sarah, née Finlay. In 1830 he was apprenticed to a merchant in Omagh...

 
Appointed to the Legislative Council 12 July 1861 Thomas Holt
Thomas Holt (Australian politician)
Thomas Holt was an Australian pastoralist, company director and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1868 and 1883. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods between 1856 and 1857 and again between 1861 and 1864...

Lower Hunter  Alexander Scott  Appointed to the Legislative Council 19 July 1861 Richard Sadleir
Hunter  Isidore Blake Resigned 5 August 1861 John Burns
Camden  John Douglas
John Douglas (Queensland politician)
John Douglas CMG was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwarth...

 
Resigned on 17 July 1861 (20 August 1861) David Bell
Yass Plains  Henry O'Brien Resigned (Ill health) (22 August 1861) Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett was an Australian barrister, jurist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1888 and 1894 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1865. He held the position of Solicitor-General in the first government of...

Tenterfield  Robert Meston Resigned 3 December 1861 Hugh Gordon
Shoalhaven  John Garrett Resigned (14 January 1862) John Robertson
Wellington  Silvanus Daniel Resigned (5 March 1862) Saul Samuel
Saul Samuel
Sir Saul Samuel CMG, KCMG, CB was an Australian colonial merchant, member of parliament, pastoralist, and prominent Jew...

New England  George Markham  Resigned 2 April 1862 Robert Forster
Orange  John Peisley Resigned 28 June 1862 James Martin
James Martin (Australian politician)
Sir James Martin, KCB, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.-Early career:...

Morpeth  David Buchanan Financial difficulty 18 September 1862 Edward Close
Carcoar  William Watt Resigned (20 October 1862) William Dalley
William Bede Dalley
William Bede Dalley was an Australian politician and barrister and the first Australian appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom...

Argyle  Terence Murray  Appointed to the Legislative Council (4 November 1862) Samuel Emmanuel
Northumberland  Thomas Lewis Financial difficulty 23 December 1862 Atkinson Tighe
West Sydney  William Windeyer
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a...

 
Resigned (Ill health after being shipwrecked) 8 January 1863 Geoffrey Eagar
Geoffrey Eagar
Geoffrey Eagar was an accountant and Treasurer of the Government of New South Wales, Australia.Eagar was born in Sydney, son of Edward, an emancipated convict who helped found the Westpac Bank, then known as the Bank of New South Wales. Edward left Australia to take a legal battle over the rights...

Liverpool Plains Alexander Dick
Alexander Dick
Alexander Williamson "Alec" Dick is an Australian cricketer who played one match for Western Australia in 1949. He played his only match against Victoria, scoring a duck batting at number eight in the first innings and eight runs batting at number nine in the second innings...

 
Resigned 29 January 1863 Marshall Burdekin
Goldfields North  James Hoskins Accepted position as overseer of northern roads 7 April 1863 James Buchanan
Central Cumberland  James Atkinson  Resigned (Ill health) 6 June 1863 Allan Macpherson
Allan Macpherson
Allan Macpherson of Blairgowrie , was born at Blairgowrie, Scotland.He went to Sydney, Australia with his parents Willam and Jessie Macpherson in 1829 where he attended Cape's School and later acquired the rural properties of Keera near Bingara, New South Wales and Mount Abundance near Roma in...

East Maitland  James Dickson
James Dickson (Australian politician)
James Dickson was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1857 until his death.-Early life:...

Death 18 June 1863 John Darvall
John Darvall
John Darvall was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865...

Clarence  Clark Irving
Clark Irving
Clark Irving was an Australian merchant pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 until 1864.-Early life:...

Absent for entire session without leave 23 July 1863 Clark Irving
Clark Irving
Clark Irving was an Australian merchant pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 until 1864.-Early life:...

Orange James Martin
James Martin (Australian politician)
Sir James Martin, KCB, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.-Early career:...

Ministerial - Premier (defeated) 4 November 1863 Charles Cowper, Jr.
Tumut Charles Cowper, Jr.  Resigned to oppose Martin in Ministerial by-election 16 November 1863 James Martin
James Martin (Australian politician)
Sir James Martin, KCB, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.-Early career:...

Braidwood  Merion Moriarty Death 3 February 1864 Henry Milford
Kiama  Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray (Australian politician)
Samuel William Gray was an Irish Australian pastoralist, farmer and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kiama , Illawarra and The Richmond .- Biography :...

Resigned 29 April 1864 Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

East Macquarie William Suttor  Resigned 6 October 1864 David Buchanan

Third Legislative Assembly 1859-1860
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1859–1860
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1859 to 1860:This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1859 to 1860:...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
East Maitland Joseph Chambers Appointed Crown Prosecutor 15 September 1859 James Dickson
James Dickson (Australian politician)
James Dickson was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1857 until his death.-Early life:...

Yass Plains Thomas Laidlaw Found to have a position of profit under the crown (20 September 1859) Thomas Laidlaw
East Macquarie  William Suttor  Resigned 6 October 1859 Thomas Hawkins
Illawarra  John Hargrave
John Hargrave (jurist)
John Fletcher Hargrave was an Australian politician and judge.Hargrave was born to Joshua Hargrave and Sarah Hargrave at Greenwich, England. His father was a hardware merchant. He was educated at King's College, London in 1830 winning a certificate of honour for rhetoric...

Appointed to Legislative Council 28 October 1859 Samuel Gordon
Samuel Gordon (Australian politician)
Samuel Gordon was an Australian merchant, pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1861 and 1882. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three terms from 1856 until 1860.-Early life:Gordon was the son of an Irish...

East Sydney Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

Resigned (Ill health) 10 November 1859 Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

Mudgee  Lyttleton Bayley Resigned after losing ministerial post 19 December 1859 Samuel Terry
West Macquarie John McPhillamy Resigned (28 December 1859) Henry Mort
East Sydney Charles Cowper
Charles Cowper
Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG was an Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales on five different occasions from 1856 to 1870....

Was nominated and elected without his consent at previous by-election 20 January 1860 Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett was an Australian barrister, jurist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1888 and 1894 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1865. He held the position of Solicitor-General in the first government of...

Canterbury Edward Flood
Edward Flood
Edward Flood was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1851 and 1856 and again from 1879 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1872...

Resigned 4 February 1860 John Lucas
John Lucas (Australian politician)
John Lucas was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1869 and 1871 to 1880 and the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1880 until his death. He was a member for Canterbury from 1860 to 1864 and from 1871 to 1880 and a member for Hartley...

Williams  Stephen Dark Resigned 16 February 1860 Alexander Campbell
Windsor  William Dalley
William Bede Dalley
William Bede Dalley was an Australian politician and barrister and the first Australian appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom...

Prolonged visit to Europe resulting by-election 12 March 1860 William Walker
Liverpool Plains  Andrew Loder Resigned after the defeat of the Foster Government 10 April 1860 Charles Kemp
Hunter  Richard Jones Resigned (25 April 1860) Isidore Blake
St Leonards  Edward Sayers Resigned 2 May 1860 James Farnell
James Farnell
James Squire Farnell was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales. Farnell was a hard-working legislator who gave much study to the land question and also tried hard for some years to pass a bill for the regulation of contagious diseases.-Early years:Farnell was born in St Leonards,...

East Macquarie  Thomas Hawkins Resigned 10 May 1860 Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Henry Deniehy was an Australian journalist, orator and politician; and early advocate of democracy in colonial New South Wales.-Early life:...

Tumut  George Lang Resigned (political ennui) 10 May 1860 Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Henry Deniehy was an Australian journalist, orator and politician; and early advocate of democracy in colonial New South Wales.-Early life:...

Wollombi  William Cape
William Timothy Cape
William Timothy Cape was an early school master in Sydney, Australia; several of the Premiers of New South Wales attended his school....

Resigned 17 May 1860 Joseph Eckford
Wellington  Nicolas Hyeronimus
Nicolas Hyeronimus
Nicolas Hyeronimus was a pioneering innkeeper, merchant, pastoralist and politician in colonial New South Wales, Australia.Born in Wallonia, Hyeronimus arrived in New South Wales in about 1840. In 1842, he established the Lion of Waterloo, the first inn at Montefiores, near present day...

Death 26 July 1860 Silvanus Daniel
Morpeth  Edward Close Resigned 7 August 1860 Samuel Cohen
Braidwood  Frederick Cooper  Resigned 10 August 1860 Merion Moriarty
Tumut Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Henry Deniehy was an Australian journalist, orator and politician; and early advocate of democracy in colonial New South Wales.-Early life:...

Elected to two seats and previous by-election voided due to voting irregularities (8 November 1860) Charles Cowper, Jr.

Second Legislative Assembly 1858-1859
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1858–1859
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1858 to 1859:...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
Cumberland (North Riding)  Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

 
Financial difficulties (20 September 1858) John Plunkett
John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

New England and Macleay  Abram Moriarty  Resigned (14 December 1858) James Hart
East Camden Robert Owen Accepted appointment to the District Court 21 March 1859 John Hargrave
John Hargrave (jurist)
John Fletcher Hargrave was an Australian politician and judge.Hargrave was born to Joshua Hargrave and Sarah Hargrave at Greenwich, England. His father was a hardware merchant. He was educated at King's College, London in 1830 winning a certificate of honour for rhetoric...


First Legislative Assembly 1856-1858
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1856–1858
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 to 1858:This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 to 1858:...

By-election Incumbent Reason for By-election Date of By-election Winner of By-election
West Camden James Macarthur
James Macarthur (Australian politician)
James Macarthur was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on three occasions between 1839 and 1843, 1848 and 1856 and finally from 1866 until his death...

 
Believed poll to be unconstitutional (21 June 1856) James Macarthur
James Macarthur (Australian politician)
James Macarthur was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on three occasions between 1839 and 1843, 1848 and 1856 and finally from 1866 until his death...

Bathurst County John Plunkett
John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

 
Elected for two seats 19 June 1856 William Suttor
Northumberland Boroughs Bourn Russell
Bourn Russell
Bourne Russell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1858 and 1880...

Result overturned by Qualifications Committee (no by-election) (5 August 1856) Elias Weekes
Elias Weekes
Elias Weekes was an Australian ironmonger and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1865 and 1880. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1864...

Cumberland (South Riding) Elias Weekes
Elias Weekes
Elias Weekes was an Australian ironmonger and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1865 and 1880. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1864...

 
Elected for two seats 21 August 1856 John Brenan
John Brenan
John Ryan Brenan was an Australian politician and an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 68 days in 1856.-Early life:Brenan was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family and trained as a solicitor...

Sydney Hamlets Stuart Donaldson
Stuart Donaldson
Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson was the first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales.-Early life:Donaldson was born in London, England. He entered his father's firm at the age of 15 and was sent first to Mexico , for business training, and then to Sydney, where he arrived in 1835...

 
Ministerial (defeated) 10 October 1856 John Campbell
John Campbell (Australian politician)
John Campbell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1856 and between 1861 and 1886...

Cumberland (South Riding)  John Brenan
John Brenan
John Ryan Brenan was an Australian politician and an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 68 days in 1856.-Early life:Brenan was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family and trained as a solicitor...

Result voided on appeal (7 November 1856) Stuart Donaldson
Stuart Donaldson
Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson was the first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales.-Early life:Donaldson was born in London, England. He entered his father's firm at the age of 15 and was sent first to Mexico , for business training, and then to Sydney, where he arrived in 1835...

Sydney City Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...

Financial difficulties 29 December 1856 William Dalley
William Bede Dalley
William Bede Dalley was an Australian politician and barrister and the first Australian appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom...

Argyle  John Plunkett
John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...

Appointed to the Legislative Council (17 February 1857) Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Deniehy
Daniel Henry Deniehy was an Australian journalist, orator and politician; and early advocate of democracy in colonial New South Wales.-Early life:...

Cumberland (South Riding) William Manning
William Montagu Manning
Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG LLD was an English-born Australian politician, judge and University of Sydney chancellor.-Early life:...

Resigned 12 June 1857 James Byrnes
James Byrnes (Australian politician)
James Byrnes was an Australian politician. He was an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1851 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods totaling 10 years between 1857 and 1872...

Northumberland Boroughs  George Nichols Death (6 November 1857) James Dickson
James Dickson (Australian politician)
James Dickson was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1857 until his death.-Early life:...

Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa  Gordon Sandeman
Gordon Sandeman
Gordon Sandeman was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 1 term between 1856 and 1857.-Early life:...

Resigned (17 December 1857) Patrick Leslie
Patrick Leslie
Patrick Leslie was a Scottish Settler in Australia. Leslie and his two brothers were the first to settle on the Darling Downs, and he was the first person to buy land in Warwick.-Early life:...

Cumberland (North Riding)  John Darvall
John Darvall
John Darvall was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865...

 
Resigned 11 December 1857 Thomas Smith
Thomas Whistler Smith
Thomas Smith was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1857 until 1859.-Early life:...

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