Electoral district of Leichhardt, Queensland (New South Wales)

Leichhardt was an electoral district, located in the colony of New South Wales, Australia, and part of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. The district was created for the July 1859 election, partly replacing the United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis in the present day central Queensland. It included the towns of Rockhampton and Emerald, the pastoral districts around the Leichhardt River in the Gulf of Carpentaria region and Port Curtis (Gladstone). It was abolished in December 1859 as a result of the separation of Queensland.^[1][2][3]

Leichhardt New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
State	New South Wales
Created	July 1859
Abolished	December 1859

The district is one of 4 seats named after Ludwig Leichhardt. The Legislative Assembly of Queensland was established in 1860 and the central Queensland area continued to be part of a district named Leichhardt, until that district was abolished in 1932.^[4] New South Wales created the Electoral district of Leichhardt, based on the eponymous suburb in Sydney.^[5] The division of Leichhardt, a seat in the Australian House of Representatives was created in 1949.

Members for Leichhardt

Member		Party	Period
	William Walsh	None	July - December 1859

Election results

Elections in the 1850s

1859

1859 New South Wales colonial election: Leichhardt
Wednesday 6 July ^[1]

Candidate		Votes	%
William Walsh (elected)		unopposed

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1859 New South Wales colonial election § Leichhardt.[edit]

References

1. Green, Antony. "1859 Leichhardt". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 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. "Mr William Henry Walsh (1823–1888)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
4. "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Leichhardt". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2020.