Electoral district of West Sydney

This article is about the New South Wales state electorate. For the Australian federal electorate, see Division of West Sydney.

West Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district, Ultimo and Pyrmont, bordered by George Street, Broadway, Bay Street and Wentworth Park. 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-Gipps, Sydney-Lang, Sydney-Denison and Sydney-Pyrmont.

Members for West Sydney

Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period
	John Lang	None	1859–1869		James Pemell	None	1859–1860		John Plunkett	None	1859–1860		Thomas Broughton	None	1859–1860
					William Windeyer	None	1860–1862		Daniel Dalgleish	None	1860–1864		William Love	None	1860–1864
					Geoffrey Eagar	None	1863–1864
					John Darvall	None	1864–1865		John Robertson	None	1864–1866		Samuel Joseph	None	1864–1868
					Geoffrey Eagar	None	1865–1869
									William Windeyer	None	1866–1872
													William Campbell	None	1868–1869
	William Speer	None	1869–1872		John Robertson	None	1869–1877						Joseph Wearne	None	1869–1874
	Joseph Raphael	None	1872–1874						John Booth	None	1872–1874
	Henry Dangar	None	1874–1877						Angus Cameron	None	1874–1885		George Dibbs	None	1874–1877
	John Harris	None	1877–1880		Daniel O'Connor	None	1877–1887						James Merriman	None	1877–1880
	William Martin	None	1880–1882										Francis Abigail	None	1880–1887
	George Merriman	None	1882–1885
	John Young	None	1885–1887						Alexander Kethel	None	1885–1887
	George Merriman	Free Trade	1887–1889			Free Trade	1887–1891			Free Trade	1887–1889			Free Trade	1887–1891
	Alfred Lamb	Free Trade	1889–1890						Thomas Playfair	Free Trade	1889–1891
	Adolphus Taylor	Independent	1890–1891
	Thomas Davis	Labor	1891–1894		George Black	Labor	1891–1894		Andrew Kelly	Labor	1891–1894		Jack FitzGerald	Labor	1891–1894

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of West Sydney

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1891 New South Wales colonial election § West Sydney.[edit]

1891 New South Wales colonial election: West Sydney
Wednesday 17 June 

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack FitzGerald (elected 1)	4,174	15.8
	Labour	George Black (elected 2)	4,078	15.4
	Labour	Andrew Kelly (elected 3)	3,798	14.3
	Labour	Thomas Davis (elected 4)	2,730	10.3
	Protectionist	John Young	2,601	9.8
	Free Trade	Thomas Playfair (defeated)	2,535	9.6
	Free Trade	Daniel O'Connor (defeated)	2,493	9.4
	Free Trade	Francis Abigail (defeated)	2,326	8.8
	Free Trade	Frederick Woolcott-Waley	1,745	6.6
Total formal votes			26,480	99.8
Informal votes			66	0.3
Turnout			7,428	68.6
	Labour gain 3 from Free Trade and gain 1 from Independent

Adolphus Taylor (Independent) did not contest the election.