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Electoral district of South Sydney

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South Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1880 to 1894, covering the southern part of the current Sydney central business district, Haymarket, Surry Hills, Moore Park and Chippendale, bordered by George Street, Broadway, City Road, Cleveland Street, South Dowling Street, Dacey Avenue, the western edge of Centennial Park, Moore Park Road, South Dowling Street, Oxford Street and Liverpool Street. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Phillip, Sydney-Belmore, Sydney-Flinders and Sydney-Cook.[1][2][3]

Elections for the district were held in the general elections of 1880,[4] 1882,[5] 1885,[6] 1887,[7] 1889,[8] and 1891.[9] There was also a by-election in 1887 as a result of Bernhard Wise accepting the office of Attorney-General in the fourth Parkes government.[10]

Members for South Sydney

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Member Party Period Member Party Period Member Party Period Member Party Period
  George Carter None 1880–1882   John Davies None 1880–1882   William Poole None 1880–1885   George Withers None 1880–1885
  John Harris None 1882–1885   Joseph Olliffe None 1882–1887
  James Toohey None 1885–1887   John Davies None 1885–1887   Archibald Forsyth None 1885–1887
  Protectionist 1887–1893   Bernhard Wise Free Trade 1887–1889   George Withers Free Trade 1887–1889   Alban Riley Free Trade 1887–1889
  William Traill Protectionist 1889–1894   Walter Edmunds Protectionist 1889–1891   James Martin Free Trade 1889–1894

 
Bernhard Wise Free Trade 1891–1894
  William Manning Protectionist 1893–1894

Election results

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1891 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Wednesday 17 June [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Protectionist William Traill (re-elected 1) 2,917 12.0
Free Trade Bernhard Wise (elected 2) 2,808 11.5
Free Trade James Martin (re-elected 3) 2,729 11.2
Protectionist James Toohey (re-elected 4) 2,662 10.9
Protectionist Walter Edmunds (defeated) 2,553 10.5
Protectionist George Dibbs 2,510 10.3
Free Trade Edward Foxall 2,237 9.2
Free Trade John McDonagh 2,136 8.8
Labour Frederick Flowers 2,017 8.3
Labour W Higgs 1,805 7.4
Total formal votes 24,374 99.3
Informal votes 179 0.7
Turnout 6,754 68.5
  Protectionist hold 2  
  Free Trade hold 1, gain 1 from Protectionist

References

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  1. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 1882. p. 4. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  6. ^ "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1885. p. 9. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  7. ^ "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  8. ^ "South Sydney Electorate". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1889. p. 8. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  9. ^ "South Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 June 1891. p. 5. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  10. ^ "South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 June 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  11. ^ Green, Antony. "1891 South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.