Murrumbidgee is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, named after the Murrumbidgee River. It is represented by Adrian Piccoli of the National Party of Australia.
According to the report for the 2004 redistribution of electoral districts, it is estimated that the electoral district will have 49,117 electors on 29 April 2007.[1] At the 2007 election it will include most of Junee Shire (including Junee, Wantabagery, Harefield, Old Junee and Junee Reefs) Temora Shire, Coolamon Shire, Bland Shire, part of Lachlan Shire (including Condobolin, Lake Cargelligo and Burcher), Narrandera Shire, Leeton Shire, the City of Griffith, Murrumbidgee Shire and part of Carrathool Shire (including Rankins Springs and Carrathool).[2]
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History
Murrumbidgee and Parramatta are the only electorates to have existed continuously since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856, although before 1913 it was called The Murrumbidgee. It elected two members between 1856 and 1859, one member between 1859 and 1880, two members between 1880 and 1885, three members between 1885 and 1894 and one member between 1894 and 1920. Voters cast a vote for each vacancy. Between 1920 to 1927, it absorbed parts of Lachlan and Ashburnham and elected three members under proportional representation. Since 1927 it has elected one member.
Members for Murrumbidgee
| Two members (1856—1859) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| John Hay | None | 1856—1859 | George Macleay | None | 1856—1859 | ||
| Single-member (1859—1880) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| William John Macleay | None | 1859—1874 | |
| William Forster | None | 1875—1876 | |
| Joseph Leary | None | 1876—1880 | |
| Two members (1880—1885) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| James Douglas | None | 1880—1882 | George Loughnan | None | 1880—1885 | ||
| Auber Jones | None | 1882—1885 | |||||
| Three members (1885—1894) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| James Gormly | None | 1885—1887 | George Dibbs | None | 1885—1887 | Alexander Bolton | None | 1885—1887 | |||
| Protectionist | 1887—1894 | Independent Free Trade | 1887—1889 | John Gale | Protectionist | 1887—1889 | |||||
| Protectionist | 1889—1894 | David Copland | Protectionist | 1889—1891 | |||||||
| Arthur Rae | Labor | 1891—1894 | |||||||||
| Single-member (1894—1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Thomas Fitzpatrick | Protectionist | 1894—1901 | |
| Progressive | 1901—1904 | ||
| Patrick McGarry | Labor | 1904—1917 | |
| Nationalist | 1917—1920 | ||
| Three members (1920—1927) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| Arthur Grimm | Nationalist | 1920—1925 | Ernest Buttenshaw | Progressive | 1920—1925 | Martin Flannery | Labor | 1920—1927 | |||
| Edmund Best | Nationalist | 1925—1927 | Country | 1925—1927 | |||||||
| Single-member (1927—present) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Martin Flannery | Labor | 1927—1932 | |
| Robert Hankinson | Country | 1932—1941 | |
| George Enticknap | Independent Labor | 1941—1944 | |
| Labor | 1944—1965 | ||
| Al Grassby | Labor | 1965—1969 | |
| Alan Gordon | Labor | 1970—1984 | |
| Adrian Cruickshank | National | 1984—1999 | |
| Adrian Piccoli | National | 1999—present | |
Election results
| New South Wales state election, 2007: Murrumbidgee | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National | Adrian Piccoli | 26,772 | 63.2 | -2.6 | |
| Labor | Michael Kidd | 13,496 | 31.9 | +3.5 | |
| Greens | Peter Carruthers | 2,060 | 4.9 | +0.7 | |
| Total formal votes | 42,328 | 97.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 978 | 2.2 | |||
| Turnout | 43,306 | 92.0 | |||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| National | Adrian Piccoli | 27,365 | 66.1 | -2.8 | |
| Labor | Michael Kidd | 14,051 | 33.9 | +2.8 | |
| National hold | Swing | -2.8 | |||
References
- ^ "Redistribution Commissioners' Report". Election Funding Authority of New South Wales. 21 December 2004. http://efa.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/2105/pagesivtovii300.pdf. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "Murrumbidgee Electoral District". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/murrumbidgee. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
External links
- "State Electoral District - Murrumbidgee Results 2007". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/lapreferential.murrumbidgee.aspx. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
- "State Electoral District - Murrumbidgee Results 2003". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/murrumbidgee/results/2003. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
- "State Electoral District - Murrumbidgee Results 1999". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/murrumbidgee/results/1999. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
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