Electoral district of East Sydney

This article is about the New South Wales state electorate. For the Australian federal electorate, see Division of East Sydney.

East Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly, in the Australian colony of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the Electoral district of Sydney City, covering the eastern part of the current Sydney central business district, Woolloomooloo, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay and Darlinghurst, bordered by George Street to the east, Boundary Street to the west, and, from the creation of South Sydney in 1880, Liverpool Street and Oxford Street, to the south. 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-King, Sydney-Fitzroy and Sydney-Bligh.

East Sydney New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
State	New South Wales
Created	1859
Abolished	1894
Namesake	East Sydney, New South Wales
Demographic	Urban

Members for East Sydney

Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period	Member		Party	Period
	Charles Cowper	None	1859–1859		John Black	None	1859–1860		Henry Parkes	None	1859–1861		James Martin	None	1859–1860
	Peter Faucett	None	1860–1860
	Charles Cowper	None	1860–1867		Robert Stewart	None	1860–1864						John Caldwell	None	1860–1866
									William Forster	None	1861–1864
					James Hart	None	1864–1869		James Neale	None	1864–1869
													Robert Stewart	None	1866–1869
	Marshall Burdekin	None	1867–1869
	George King	None	1869–1872		David Buchanan	None	1869–1872		Henry Parkes	None	1869–1870		James Martin	None	1869–1872
									Bowie Wilson	None	1870–1872
	James Neale	None	1872–1874		Saul Samuel	None	1872–1872		Henry Parkes	None	1872–1877		John Macintosh	None	1872–1880
					George Oakes	None	1872–1874
	Charles Moore	None	1874–1874
	John Davies	None	1874–1880		Alexander Stuart	None	1874–1879
									James Greenwood	None	1877–1880
					Arthur Renwick	None	1879–1882
	George Reid	None	1880–1884						Henry Parkes	None	1880–1882		Henry Dangar	None	1880–1882
					Edmund Barton	None	1882–1887		John McElhone	None	1882–1883		George Griffiths	None	1882–1885
									Henry Copeland	None	1883–1887
	Sydney Burdekin	None	1884–1887
													George Reid	None	1885–1887
		Free Trade	1887–1891		John Street	Free Trade	1887–1891		William McMillan	Free Trade	1887–1894			Free Trade	1887–1894
					Walter Bradley	Protectionist	1891–1891
	Varney Parkes	Free Trade	1891–1894		Edmund Barton	Protectionist	1891–1894

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of East Sydney

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1891 New South Wales colonial election § East Sydney.[edit]

1891 New South Wales colonial election: East Sydney
Wednesday 17 June 

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	William McMillan (re-elected 1)	3,713	19.2
	Protectionist	Edmund Barton (elected 2)	3,535	18.3
	Free Trade	Varney Parkes (elected 3)	3,343	17.3
	Ind. Free Trade	George Reid (re-elected 4)	2,946	15.2
	Protectionist	William Manning	2,260	11.7
	Labour	William Grantham	2,241	11.6
	Protectionist	Walter Bradley	1,328	6.9
Total formal votes			19,366	99.7
Informal votes			65	0.3
Turnout			6,475	64.5
	Free Trade hold 2
	Protectionist hold 1
	Member changed to Ind. Free Trade from Free Trade

Walter Bradley (Protectionist) won a seat at the 1891 East Sydney by-election and Edmund Barton (Protectionist) held it at this election. George Reid whilst a Free Trader, did not support the Free Trade government of Sir Henry Parkes.