Electoral district of Burrangong

Burrangong was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in the 1904 re-distribution 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] It was named after Burrangong station, the first squatting run in the Young area and consisted of parts of the abolished districts of Boorowa, Grenfell and Young. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed along with Yass into Cootamundra.[2]

Members for Burrangong

Member		Party	Period
	George Burgess	Labor	1904–1916
		Nationalist	1916–1917
	Peter Loughlin	Labor	1917–1920

Election results

1917 New South Wales state election: Burrangong [3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Peter Loughlin	3,925	51.1	+0.8
	Nationalist	George Burgess	3,760	48.9	+48.9
Total formal votes			7,685	99.0	+1.4
Informal votes			80	1.0	-1.4
Turnout			7,765	66.3	-1.2
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.8

The sitting member George Burgess was expelled from Labor in the November 1916 Labor split split over conscription.[4]

References

1. "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
2. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Burrangong". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
3. Green, Antony. "1917 Burrangong". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
4. "PLL expulsions". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 November 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 7 May 2020 – via Trove.