Cumberland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in outer western Sydney named after Cumberland County. It was created as a three-member electorate with the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, replacing Camden and Hawkesbury. It was abolished in 1927 and replaced by Hawkesbury, Nepean, and parts of Bankstown, Lakemba and Hornsby.[1][2][3]
Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
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Voltaire Molesworth [4] | Labor | 1920–1925 | Bruce Walker [5] | Nationalist | 1920–1927 | Ernest Carr [6] | Nationalist | 1920–1922 | |||
William FitzSimons [7] | Nationalist | 1922–1926 | |||||||||
James McGirr [8] | Labor | 1925–1927 | |||||||||
James Shand [9] | Nationalist | 1926–1927 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Quota | 7,885 | ||||
Nationalist | William FitzSimons (elected 1) | 8,959 | 28.4 | +2.6 | |
Nationalist | Bruce Walker Sr (elected 2) | 7,989 | 25.3 | +2.3 | |
Nationalist | James Shand | 4,010 | 12.7 | +12.7 | |
Labor | James McGirr (elected 3) | 7,102 | 22.5 | -3.1 | |
Labor | Robert Bingham | 1,621 | 5.1 | +5.1 | |
Progressive | Reginald Harris | 826 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Progressive | Aaron Morris | 121 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Progressive | Arthur Upchurch | 47 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Ernest Carr | 330 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Independent | John Allaburton | 124 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Total formal votes | 31,537 | 97.3 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 882 | 2.7 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 32,419 | 68.9 | -1.1 | ||
Party total votes | |||||
Nationalist | 20,958 | 66.4 | -4.9 | ||
Labor | 9,131 | 29.0 | +2.9 | ||
Progressive | 994 | 3.2 | +0.6 | ||
Independent | Ernest Carr | 330 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Independent | John Allaburton | 124 | 0.4 | +0.4 |
From 1856 until 1859 there were three districts covering the area.