Electoral district of Willyama

Willyama was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales named after the original aboriginal name for the Broken Hill area. It included southern Broken Hill and sparsely occupied areas further south. Since 1904 all of the town was in the district of Broken Hill, surrounded by the rural district of Sturt. In the 1912 redistribution north Broken Hill was in Sturt, while Willyama was created to include South Broken Hill, the southern part of Sturt and the north western part of Murray.^[1] In 1920, it was combined with Sturt, Cobar and much of the area of Murray to create a three-member Sturt. Willyama's only member was Jabez Wright representing Labor.^[2][3][4]

Members for Willyama

Member		Party	Term
	Jabez Wright	Labor	1913–1920

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Willyama

1917 New South Wales state election: Willyama ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jabez Wright	3,381	64.6	−8.7
	Ind. Nationalist	Brian Doe	1,851	35.4	+35.4
Total formal votes			5,232	99.5	+1.8
Informal votes			24	0.5	−1.8
Turnout			5,256	59.2	−3.6
	Labor hold		Swing	−8.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Willyama.[edit]

References

1. "1912 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 11 November 2020.
3. "Mr Jabez Wright (1852–1922)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
4. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Willyama". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
5. Green, Antony. "1917 Willyama". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.