Belubula was an
electoral district
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of the
Legislative Assembly in the
Australia
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n state of
New South Wales from 1904 to 1913. The electorate included much of the modern
Cabonne Council
Cabonne Council is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mitchell Highway and the Broken Hill railway line, partly surrounding the City of Orange. The administra ...
and
Cowra Shire
The Cowra Shire is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Lachlan River, the Mid-Western Highway and the Lachlan Way.
The largest town and council seat is Co ...
and was named after the
Belubula River, which flows through the town of
Canowindra. In 1913 it was largely absorbed into
Lyndhurst.
In 1904, it consisted of booths at
Burnt Yards, Back Creek, Barragun, Belpage,
Bowan Park,
Canowindra,
Carcoar,
Cowra, Cowra-Goolagong Road, Cowra-Canowindra Road,
Cargo,
Cudal
Cudal ( ) is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. Cudal is in the Cabonne Shire Council local government area, west of the state capital, Sydney. The town was first surveyed in 1867. Running through the town is "Bo ...
, Coffee Hills, Cave Creek,
Cadia,
Darby Falls,
Eugowra
Eugowra is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is split between Forbes Shire and Cabonne Shire local government area, west of the state capital, Sydney. At the , Eugowra had a population of 779.
Geogr ...
,
Forest Reefs, Gully Swamp,
Holmwood, Lumpy Swamp,
Lyndhurst, Lockwood,
Mandurama
Mandurama is a village in the Blayney Shire, New South Wales, Australia. At the , Mandurama and the surrounding area had a population of 355 people.
Geography
Mandurama is situated west of Sydney, southwest of Bathurst, and northeast of Co ...
,
Merriganowery,
Morongola Creek, Mount Macdonald,
Murga,
Nyrang Creek,
Toogong, Wolli,
Woodstock,
Wattamandara, Warrangong and
Westville.
It was first contested at the
1904 election, when it was won by
Thomas Waddell
Thomas Waddell (1 January 1854 – 25 October 1940), an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1887 to 1917, was briefly the premier of New South Wales during 1904, and was a member of the New Sou ...
, the former member for the abolished
Cowra seat, who defeated
Thomas Rose, former member for the abolished
Argyle seat. He held it until the seat's abolition in 1913, during which time he switched from the
Progressive Party to the
Liberal Reform Party.
Waddell subsequently won the new seat of Lyndhurst in 1913 following Belubula's abolition.
Members for Belubula
Election results
References
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Belubula
Constituencies established in 1904
Constituencies disestablished in 1913
1904 establishments in Australia
1913 disestablishments in Australia