Electoral district of Darling

The Darling was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1904 to 1913, named after the Darling River. It was created in the 1904 re-distirbution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90,[1] and consisted of Bourke and parts of The Barwon and Wilcannia. It was abolished in 1913 with most of the district going to Cobar and the balance to Sturt.[2][3][4]

Members for The Darling

Member		Party	Term
	John Meehan [5]	Labor	1904–1913

Election results

1910

1910 New South Wales state election: The Darling [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Meehan	1,866	78.37
	Liberal Reform	William Shepherd	515	21.63
Total formal votes			2,381	97.30
Informal votes			66	2.70
Turnout			2,447	48.44
	Labour hold

1907

1907 New South Wales state election: The Darling [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Meehan	2,370	67.0
	Liberal Reform	William Davis	1,170	33.1
Total formal votes			4,583	97.5
Informal votes			120	2.6
Turnout			4,703	61.2
	Labour hold

1904

1904 New South Wales state election: The Darling [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Meehan	1,999	50.6
	Progressive	William Willis	1,692	42.8
	Independent Labour	Richard Sleath	259	6.6
Total formal votes			3,950	98.9
Informal votes			44	1.1
Turnout			3,994	55.5
	Labour win		(new seat)

The Darling was a new seat comprising Bourke and parts of The Barwon and Wilcannia electorates.[9] The member for Bourke was William Davis (Progressive) who did not contest the election. The member for The Barwon was William Willis (Progressive) while the member for Wilcannia was Richard Sleath who had initially been elected as a Labour candidate at the 1894 election,[10] but had lost his Labour endorsement prior to the 1901 election which he won as an Independent Labour candidate.[11]

References

"1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
"Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
"Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
"Mr John Charles Meehan (1864–1930)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
Green, Antony. "1910 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
Green, Antony. "1907 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
Green, Antony. "1904 Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
"The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.
Green, Antony. "1894 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
Green, Antony. "1901 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

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[1] "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.

[2] "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

[3] "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

[Green_Darling-4] Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2019.

[Meehan_NSW_parl-5] "Mr John Charles Meehan (1864–1930)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

[Results_of_the_1910_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_Darling_1910-6] Green, Antony. "1910 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2019.

[Results_of_the_1907_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_The_Darling_1907-7] Green, Antony. "1907 The Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 October 2019.

[Results_of_the_1904_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_1904_Darling-8] Green, Antony. "1904 Darling". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

[Results_of_the_1904_New_South_Wales_state_election_New_electorates-9] "The new electorates: where and what they are". Evening News. 26 March 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via Trove.

[Results_of_the_1904_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_Wilcannia_1894-10] Green, Antony. "1894 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

[Results_of_the_1904_New_South_Wales_state_election_Green_Wilcannia_1901-11] Green, Antony. "1901 Wilcannia". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

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