Electoral district of West Macquarie

West Macquarie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales between 1859 and 1904, in the Bathurst region, named after the Macquarie River, being the western side of the river to the south of the town of Bathurst. It was abolished in 1904 due to the re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90.^[1] It was largely replaced by the new district of Blayney, which also absorbed parts of Hartley and The Macquarie. The rest of the district was absorbed by Yass.^[2][3][4]

Members for West Macquarie

Member		Party	Term
	John McPhillamy	None	1859–1859
	Henry Mort	None	1859–1860
	Richard Driver	None	1860–1869
	Edmund Webb	None	1869–1874
	Charles Pilcher	None	1875–1882
	Thomas Hellyer	None	1882–1884
	Lewis Lloyd	None	1884–1887
	Fergus Smith	Free Trade	1887–1889
	Paddy Crick	Protectionist	1889–1901
		Progressive	1901–1904

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of West Macquarie

1901 New South Wales state election: West Macquarie ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Paddy Crick	1,152	59.2	+3.6
	Liberal Reform	Otto Jaeger	795	40.8	-2.3
Total formal votes			1,947	99.0	+0.8
Informal votes			19	1.0	−0.8
Turnout			1,966	52.6	−4.7
	Progressive hold

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1901 New South Wales state election § West Macquarie.[edit]

References

1. "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
3. "Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales". Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
4. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of West Macquarie". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
5. Green, Antony. "1901 Macquarie West". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2020.