Electoral district of South Sydney

South Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1880 to 1894, covering the southern part of the current Sydney central business district, Haymarket, Surry Hills, Moore Park and Chippendale, bordered by George Street, Broadway, City Road, Cleveland Street, South Dowling Street, Dacey Avenue, the western edge of Centennial Park, Moore Park Road, South Dowling Street, Oxford Street and Liverpool Street. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Phillip, Sydney-Belmore, Sydney-Flinders and Sydney-Cook.[1][2][3]

Elections for the district were held in the general elections of 1880,[4] 1882,[5] 1885,[6] 1887,[7] 1889,[8] and 1891.[9] There was also a by-election in 1887 as a result of Bernhard Wise accepting the office of Attorney-General in the fourth Parkes government.[10]

Members for South Sydney

Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period
	George Carter	None	1880–1882		John Davies	None	1880–1882		William Poole	None	1880–1885		George Withers	None	1880–1885
	John Harris	None	1882–1885		Joseph Olliffe	None	1882–1887
	James Toohey	None	1885–1887						John Davies	None	1885–1887		Archibald Forsyth	None	1885–1887
		Protectionist	1887–1893		Bernhard Wise	Free Trade	1887–1889		George Withers	Free Trade	1887–1889		Alban Riley	Free Trade	1887–1889
					William Traill	Protectionist	1889–1894		Walter Edmunds	Protectionist	1889–1891		James Martin	Free Trade	1889–1894
									Bernhard Wise	Free Trade	1891–1894
	William Manning	Protectionist	1893–1894

Election results

1891 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Wednesday 17 June [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	William Traill (re-elected 1)	2,917	12.0
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise (elected 2)	2,808	11.5
	Free Trade	James Martin (re-elected 3)	2,729	11.2
	Protectionist	James Toohey (re-elected 4)	2,662	10.9
	Protectionist	Walter Edmunds (defeated)	2,553	10.5
	Protectionist	George Dibbs	2,510	10.3
	Free Trade	Edward Foxall	2,237	9.2
	Free Trade	John McDonagh	2,136	8.8
	Labour	Frederick Flowers	2,017	8.3
	Labour	W Higgs	1,805	7.4
Total formal votes			24,374	99.3
Informal votes			179	0.7
Turnout			6,754	68.5
	Protectionist hold 2
	Free Trade hold 1, gain 1 from Protectionist

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
4. "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
5. "Parliamentary Elections: South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 1882. p. 4. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
6. "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1885. p. 9. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
7. "South Sydney (4 members)". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
8. "South Sydney Electorate". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1889. p. 8. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
9. "South Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 June 1891. p. 5. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
10. "South Sydney Election". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 June 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
11. Green, Antony. "1891 South Sydney". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.