Newcastle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including Newcastle. It is represented by Jodi McKay of the Australian Labor Party.
In early 2007, sitting member Bryce Gaudry failed to gain the preselection from the Labor Party, which instead chose a former local newsreader, Jodi McKay. Gaudry opted to stand as an independent and as a consequence split the Labor Party's vote. Independent former Lord Mayor of Newcastle came close to winning the seat after preferences but McKay managed to hold on. Labor's previous margin of 15% has been slashed to as little as 1.4% making it one of Labor's most marginal seats.
History
Newcastle was created in 1859 from part of North Eastern Boroughs. It gained a second member in 1880 and a third member in 1889. With the abolition of multi-member electorates in 1894, it was divided into Newcastle East, Newcastle West, Kahibah, Waratah and Wickham. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, it absorbed Kahibah, Wallsend and Wickham and elected five members. With the end of proportional representation in 1927, Newcastle was split into the single-member electorates of Newcastle, Hamilton, Kahibah and Wallsend.
Members for Newcastle
| Single-member (1859—1880) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Arthur Hodgson | None | 1859—1860 | |
| James Hannell | None | 1860—1869 | |
| George Lloyd | None | 1869—1877 | |
| Richard Bowker | None | 1877—1880 | |
| Two members (1880—1889) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| James Fletcher | None | 1880—1887 | George Lloyd | None | 1880—1882 | ||
| James Ellis | None | 1882—1885 | |||||
| George Lloyd | None | 1885—1887 | |||||
| Protectionist | 1887—1889 | James Ellis | Free Trade | 1887—1889 | |||
| Three members (1889—1894) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| James Fletcher | Protectionist | 1889—1891 | Alexander Brown | Protectionist | 1889—1891 | William Grahame | Protectionist | 1889—1889 | |||
| James Curley | Free Trade | 1889—1891 | |||||||||
| David Scott | Labor | 1891—1894 | John Fegan | Labor | 1891—1894 | William Grahame | Protectionist | 1891—1894 | |||
| Single-member (1904—1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| William Dick | Liberal Reform | 1904—1907 | |
| Owen Gilbert | Liberal Reform | 1907—1910 | |
| Arthur Gardiner | Labor | 1910—1917 | |
| Independent Labor | 1917—1920 | ||
| Five members (1920—1927) | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||||
| Arthur Gardiner | Independent | 1920—1922 | John Estell | Labor | 1920—1922 | John Fegan | Nationalist | 1920—1922 | William Kearsley | Labor | 1920—1921 | Hugh Connell | Labor | 1920—1927 | |||||
| David Murray | Labor | 1921—1927 | |||||||||||||||||
| Walter Skelton | Independent | 1922—1927 | John Baddeley | Labor | 1922—1927 | Magnus Cromarty | Nationalist | 1922—1925 | |||||||||||
| George Booth | Labor | 1925—1927 | |||||||||||||||||
| Single-member (1927—present) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Peter Connolly | Labor | 1927—1935 | |
| Francis Hawkins | Labor | 1935—1958 | |
| Arthur Wade | Labor | 1968—1988 | |
| George Keegan | Independent | 1988—1991 | |
| Bryce Gaudry | Labor | 1991—2007 | |
| Independent | 2007—2007 | ||
| Jodi McKay | Labor | 2007—present | |
External links
- "Newcastle Electoral District". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/newcastle. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
- "State Electoral District - Newcastle Results 2007". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/lapreferential.newcastle.aspx. Retrieved on 2007-05-07.
- "State Electoral District - Newcastle Results 2003". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/newcastle/results/2003. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
- "State Electoral District - Newcastle Results 1999". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/newcastle/results/1999. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
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