The Electoral district of Counties of Murray and St Vincent was an electorate of the
New South Wales Legislative Council at a time when some of its members were elected and the balance were appointed by the Governor. It was a new electorate created in 1851 by the expansion of the Legislative Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected.
[
] The district consisted of the rural areas of
Murray County, which had previously been part of
Counties of Murray, King and Georgiana, and
St Vincent County
St Vincent County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It included the south coast area encompassing Batemans Bay, Ulladulla, Jervis Bay and inland to B ...
, which had previously been part of
Counties of St Vincent and Auckland. The towns of
Braidwood and
Queanbeyan were not part of the district, being included in
Southern Boroughs.
[
In 1856 the ]unicameral
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
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 United Counties of Murray and St Vincent.
Members
Election results
1851
1855
Alick Osborne
Alick Osborne ( – 12 March 1856) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born at Dirnaseer in County Tyrone to Archie Osborne; He was a ship's surgeon in the Royal Navy and then a pastoralist in the Illawarra. Osborne was elected to t ...
resigned in February 1855.
References
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Former electoral districts of New South Wales Legislative Council
1851 establishments in Australia
1856 disestablishments in Australia