The Electoral district of Counties of Murray, King and Georgiana and from 1851, Counties of King and Georgiana was an electorate of the partially elected
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
, created for the first elections for the Council in 1843.
[
] The electoral district included the south western counties of
Murray
Murray may refer to:
Businesses
* Murray (bicycle company), an American manufacturer of low-cost bicycles
* Murrays, an Australian bus company
* Murray International Trust, a Scottish investment trust
* D. & W. Murray Limited, an Australian who ...
,
King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
and
Georgiana.
[ Polling took place at ]Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan ( ) is a city in the south-eastern region of New South Wales, Australia, located adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory in the Southern Tablelands region. Located on the Queanbeyan River, the city is the council seat of the ...
, Yass
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* Catherine Yass (born 1963), painter
* Yazz, a British pop singer from the 1980s and 1990s
* Jeff Yass (born 1956), options trader, managing director and one of the five founders of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna I ...
and Wheeo, which were within the counties and the nearby towns of Braidwood, Goulburn
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and Bathurst. The towns of Queanbeyan and Yass were removed from the district with the expansion of the Council in 1851 and combined with Braidwood and Goulburn
Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters pate ...
to form the Southern Boroughs. The rural area of the County of Murray became part of the Counties of Murray and St Vincent and leaving the district to cover the remaining rural areas of the Counties of King and Gergiana.
At all three elections, there was only one candidate who was therefore elected unopposed. In 1856 the unicameral
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Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...
Legislative Council was abolished and replaced with an elected Legislative Assembly and an appointed Legislative Council. The district was represented by the Legislative Assembly electorate of King and Georgiana.
Members
:Terence Murray went on to represent the Southern Boroughs from September 1851.
Election results
1843
1848
1851
See also
*Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1843–1851
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1843 to 1851. The 1843 Electoral Act prescribed 36 members, 24 to be elected, 6 appointed by virtue of their office ( Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor-Genera ...
References
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Former electoral districts of New South Wales Legislative Council
1843 establishments in Australia
1851 disestablishments in Australia