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August 1911 Liverpool Plains State By-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Electoral district of Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Plains on 16 August 1911 because of the resignation of Henry Horne (Australian politician), Henry Horne () because he disagreed with legislation introduced by the Labor New South Wales Minister for Lands, Secretary for Lands Niels Nielsen (Australian politician), Niels Nielsen. The member for Electoral district of Mudgee, Mudgee Bill Dunn (Australian politician), Bill Dunn () also resigned, and the 1911 Mudgee state by-election, Mudgee by-election was held on the same day. Dates Results Henry Horne (Australian politician), Henry Horne () resigned. Aftermath With a margin of 3 votes and 91 informal votes, William Ashford (Australian politician), William Ashford challenged the result before the Elections and Qualifications Committee, which declared the election void. William Ashford comfortably won the October 1911 Liverpool Plains state by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confrontational style during heated moments and the "savage political theatre and the bloodlust of its professional players" attributed in part to executive dominance. History The Legislativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Perry (1849–1935)
John Perry (1849 – 2 January 1935) was an Australian politician. He was born in Branxton. He became a goldminer at Gulgong. He married Selina Richardson in 1873; they had two sons. In 1883 he began farming near Walhallow. In 1886, he married his second wife, Mary Harrigan; they had four children. A founding member of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales, he was also closely involved in the Australian Shearers' Union. An early member of the Labor Party, he ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the endorsed Labor candidate for Quirindi in 1895 and 1898, but by his successful election in 1904 as the member for Liverpool Plains he was describing himself as an Independent Liberal. Defeated as an endorsed Liberal in 1907, he was returned to the parliament in sensational circumstances in August 1911, when he won the by-election for his old seat caused by the resignation of his successor, Henry Horne, over land policy. His four-vote victory w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Elections In Australia
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New South Wales State By-elections
This is a list of by-elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. A by-election may be held when a member's seat becomes vacant through resignation, death or some other reasons. These are referred to as casual vacancies. *Brackets around a date (D/M/Y) indicate that the candidate was unopposed when nominations closed or that, as a result of an appeal against an election result, the sitting member was replaced by the appellant. These candidates were declared "elected unopposed" with effect from the date of the closing of nominations or appeal decision, and there was no need to hold a by-election. *By-elections which resulted in a change in party representation are highlighted as: Gains for the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party and its splinter groups in ; for the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party and its predecessors in ; for the National Party of Australia – NSW, National Party and its predecessors in ; for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Results For The District Of Liverpool Plains
Liverpool Plains, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ..., had three incarnations, from 1859 to 1880, from 1904 to 1920 and from 1927 to 1962. __NOTOC__ Election results Elections in the 1960s 1961 by-election Elections in the 1950s 1959 1956 1953 1950 Elections in the 1940s 1947 1944 1941 Elections in the 1930s 1938 1935 1932 1930 Elections in the 1920s 1927 1920 - 1927 Elections in the 1910s 1917 1913 October 1911 by-election August 1911 by-election 1910 Elections in the 1900s 1907 1904 1880 - 1904 Elections in the 1870s 1877 1876 by-election 1875 1872 1871 by-election 1870 by-election Elections in the 1860s 1869 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 1911 Liverpool Plains State By-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Electoral district of Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Plains on 28 October 1911 because the Elections and Qualifications Committee declared that the election of John Perry (1849–1935), John Perry at the August 1911 Liverpool Plains state by-election, by-election on 16 August 1911 was void. Perry had been declared as winning the seat, with a margin of 3 votes and 91 informal votes, and William Ashford (Australian politician), William Ashford challenged the result before the Elections and Qualifications Committee. The Committee recounted the votes and held that Perry and Ashford had tied on 2,915 votes each. The provision for a tie only referred to the returning officer as having a casting vote, and he had already concluded his task in returning the writ. The Committee declared that the election was void. Dates Results The Elections and Qualifications Committee declared the August 1911 Liverp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales
The ''Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales'', also known as the ''New South Wales Government Gazette'', is the government gazette of the Government of New South Wales in Australia. The ''Gazette'' is managed by the New South Wales Parliamentary Counsel's Office. History The first ''Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales'' was published in 1832. Prior to the publication of the first issue of the ''Gazette'' on 7 March 1832, official notices were published in the '' Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser''. The articles in the ''Gazette'' include official notices from municipal councils and government departments about the naming of roads and the acquisition of land as well as changes to legislation and government departments in New South Wales. Government notices, regulations, forms and orders relating to the Port Phillip District were published in the ''Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales'' until Victoria separated from New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1910 New South Wales State Election
The 1910 New South Wales state election involved 90 electoral district returning one member each. This was the first NSW election using a second ballot system. All previous elections had used a first past the post voting system, where a candidate might be elected with less than 50% of the vote especially where two or more similar candidates split the vote. Under the second ballot system, if a candidate failed to achieve at least 50% of the vote in an electorate, a run-off election would take place in the following weeks. In this election, 3 electorates proceeded to second round elections. At Durham and St Leonards the second round ballot was won by the leading candidate; however, at Hastings and Macleay the support from the Labour Party saw the independent overtake sitting Liberal Reform member to take the seat. The Labour Party fielded a candidate in every electorate, with the result that the only 3 uncontested seats, Broken Hill, Cobar and The Murray, were all held by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ashford (Australian Politician)
William George Ashford (9 August 1874 – 23 March 1925) was an Australian politician. Early life Born at Sparks Creek near Scone to selector John Ashford and Rebecca Bell, he attended Sparks Creek Public School before starting work on his father's farm. He later bought a farm on the Hawkesbury River, but sold it to return to Sparks Creek. Around 1904 he married Lily Charlotte Keys Brecht, with whom he had four sons. Parliamentary career He stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the candidate for Upper Hunter at the 1907 election, but was unsuccessful. In 1910 the sitting member William Fleming () resigned to unsuccessfully contest a federal seat at the 1910 election and Ashford won the April 1910 by-election. He was defeated 6 months later at the general election in October. In 1911 a vacancy arose at Liverpool Plains due to the resignation of Henry Horne (Labor). Ashford was defeated at the by-election in August 1911 with a margin of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 1911 Liverpool Plains State By-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Electoral district of Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Plains on 16 August 1911 because of the resignation of Henry Horne (Australian politician), Henry Horne () because he disagreed with legislation introduced by the Labor New South Wales Minister for Lands, Secretary for Lands Niels Nielsen (Australian politician), Niels Nielsen. The member for Electoral district of Mudgee, Mudgee Bill Dunn (Australian politician), Bill Dunn () also resigned, and the 1911 Mudgee state by-election, Mudgee by-election was held on the same day. Dates Results Henry Horne (Australian politician), Henry Horne () resigned. Aftermath With a margin of 3 votes and 91 informal votes, William Ashford (Australian politician), William Ashford challenged the result before the Elections and Qualifications Committee, which declared the election void. William Ashford comfortably won the October 1911 Liverpool Plains state by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Liverpool Plains
Liverpool Plains was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1859 and including the Liverpool Plains (which includes Quirindi and Gunnedah) and the extensive pastoral district around the Gwydir River in the northwest of the state. It was created when the seat of Liverpool Plains and Gwydir was divided into two. It was abolished in 1880, and partly replaced by Gunnedah. It was re-created in the 1904 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. It consisted of parts of the abolished seats of Gunnedah, Quirindi, and Wellington. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation it was absorbed into Wammerawa, along with Castlereagh and Mudgee. Liverpool Plains was recreated for the 1927 election and finally abolished in 1962. The district was divided between Barwon and Upper Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
