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Newtown-Camperdown was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Newtown and named after and including the inner Sydney suburb of Camperdown. It was replaced by the Electoral district of Camperdown in 1904.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Members for Newtown-Camperdown edit

1901 New South Wales state election: Newtown-Camperdown ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Progressive	James Smith	759	35.1	+10.2
	Liberal Reform	Thomas Probert	562	26.0	-1.3
	Independent Liberal	William Clegg	382	17.7
	Labour	Samuel Heaton	270	12.5	+7.2
	Independent Liberal	Richard Bellemey	165	7.6
	Socialist Labor	Andrew Thomson	24	1.1
Total formal votes			2,162	99.0	+0.5
Informal votes			22	1.0	-0.5
Turnout			2,184	62.6	+0.8
	Ind. Progressive gain from Liberal Reform

The sitting member was Francis Cotton (Liberal Reform) who did not contest the election.

^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ Green, Antony. "1901 Newtown-Camperdown". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.