Sydney City, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, had two incarnations, from 1950 until 1971 and from 1988 until 1999.[1][2][3]
Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||
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1856 | Henry Parkes | None | James Wilshire | None | Robert Campbell | None | Charles Cowper | None | ||||
Sep 1856 by | ||||||||||||
Dec 1856 by | William Dalley | None | ||||||||||
1858 | Robert Tooth | None | George Thornton | None |
Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|
George Thornton (elected 1) | 3,666 | 21.4 | |
Robert Tooth (elected 2) | 2,411 | 14.1 | |
Robert Campbell (re-elected 3) | 2,158 | 12.6 | |
Charles Cowper (re-elected 4) | 2,099 | 12.2 | |
William Dalley (defeated) | 2,035 | 11.9 | |
Frank Fowler | 1,762 | 10.3 | |
James Wilshire (defeated) | 1,557 | 18.7 | |
William Allen | 1,474 | 8.6 | |
Total formal votes | 17,164 | 100.0 | |
Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
Turnout | 17,164 | 39.7 |
Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|
William Dalley (elected) | 1,998 | 57.2 | |
John Fairfax | 1,493 | 42.8 | |
Total formal votes | 3,491 | 100.0 | |
Informal votes | 0 | 0 | |
Turnout | 3,491 | 25.2 |
Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|
Charles Cowper (re-elected 1) | 1,993 | 45.6 | |
Robert Campbell (re-elected 2) | 1,831 | 41.9 | |
Thomas Duigan | 542 | 12.4 | |
Total formal votes | 4,366 | 100.0 | |
Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
Turnout | 2,183 | 15.7 |
Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|
Charles Cowper (elected 1) | 3,073 | 20.5 | |
Henry Parkes (elected 2) | 3,057 | 20.4 | |
Robert Campbell (elected 3) | 3,041 | 20.33 | |
James Wilshire (elected 4) | 2,901 | 19.4 | |
John Plunkett | 2,800 | 18.7 | |
Thomas Duigan | 89 | 0.6 | |
Total formal votes | 14,961 | 100.0 | |
Informal votes | 0 | 0.0 | |
Turnout | 6,007 | 43.3 |
Cowper, Parkes, Campbell and Wilshire had been endorsed as a group by a public meeting to be elected to the four vacancies.[9] Parkes, Campbell and Wilshire all represented City of Sydney in the Legislative Council while Cowper represented County of Durham. There were no political parties at the time and the combination of candidates, pejoratively referred to by Plunkett as "The Bunch", was controversial.[10] Plunket, who had been an appointed member of the Council, campaigned on the slogan "plump for Plunket",[11] a reference to the voting practice of voting for a single candidate rather than the four candidates an elector was entitled to vote for.[12]
After his defeat in this seat, Plunkett unsuccessfully contested North Eastern Boroughs, before being elected for both Argyle and Bathurst (County). Plunket chose to represent Argyle and resigned as member for Bathurst (County).