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Moruya was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, named after Moruya.^[1]^[2] It was created from parts of the districts of Eden and The Shoalhaven.^[3] Its only member was William Millard,^[4] who held it for the Free Trade Party until 1904 when it was replaced by The Clyde.^[5]

Members for Moruya edit

Member		Party	Term
	William Millard	Free Trade	1894–1901
	William Millard	Liberal Reform	1901–1904

1901 New South Wales state election: Moruya ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	William Millard	956	65.6	+12.5
	Independent	Joynton Smith	440	30.2
	Progressive	Theophilus Cox	62	4.3	-42.1
Total formal votes			1,458	99.6	+0.5
Informal votes			6	0.4	-0.5
Turnout			1,464	70.6	-2.2
	Liberal Reform hold

^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Moruya". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ "Maps and sketches of proposed Electoral Districts". New South Wales Government Gazette. 23 August 1893. p. 6583. Retrieved 12 April 2020 – via Trove.
^ "Mr William Millard (1844–1921)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
^ "The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.
^ Green, Antony. "1901 Moruya". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.