Electoral district of Willyama

Willyama was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales named after the original aboriginal name for the Broken Hill area. It included southern Broken Hill and sparsely occupied areas further south. Since 1904 all of the town was in the district of Broken Hill, surrounded by the rural district of Sturt. In the 1912 redistribution north Broken Hill was in Sturt, while Willyama was created to include South Broken Hill, the southern part of Sturt and the north western part of Murray.[1] In 1920, it was combined with Sturt, Cobar and much of the area of Murray to create a three-member Sturt. Willyama's only member was Jabez Wright representing Labor.[2][3][4]

Members for Willyama
MemberPartyTerm
  Jabez Wright Labor 1913–1920

Election results

1917
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Willyama[edit]
1917 New South Wales state election: Willyama [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jabez Wright 3,381 64.6 -8.7
Ind. Nationalist Brian Doe 1,851 35.4 +35.4
Total formal votes 5,232 99.5 +1.8
Informal votes 24 0.5 -1.8
Turnout 5,256 59.2 -3.6
Labor hold Swing-8.7

1913
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1913 New South Wales state election § Willyama[edit]
1913 New South Wales state election: Willyama [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jabez Wright 4,327 73.3
Independent Liberal William Ferguson 1,029 17.4
Independent Walter Wright 545 9.2
Total formal votes 5,901 97.7
Informal votes 137 2.3
Turnout 6,038 62.8
Labor hold  

References
  1. "1912 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
  2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  3. "Mr Jabez Wright (1852–1922)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  4. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Willyama". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  5. Green, Antony. "1917 Willyama". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  6. Green, Antony. "1913 Willyama". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.


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