Electoral results for the district of South Sydney

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

South Sydney, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1880 and abolished in 1904.^[1][2][3]

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

Election results

Elections in the 1890s

1893 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1893 South Sydney colonial by-election § Result.[edit]

1893 South Sydney by-election
Monday 13 February ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	William Manning (elected)	1,985	41.7
	Free Trade	Edward Foxall	1,962	41.2
	Labour	Frederick Flowers	814	17.1
Total formal votes			4,761	98.7
Informal votes			64	1.3
Turnout			4,825	48.9 [a]
	Protectionist hold

James Toohey (Protectionist) resigned.^[4]

1891

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

1891 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Wednesday 17 June ^[5]

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

Elections in the 1880s

1889

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1889 New South Wales colonial election § South Sydney.[edit]

1889 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Saturday 2 February ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	William Traill (elected 1)	3,036	13.0
	Protectionist	Walter Edmunds (elected 2)	2,996	12.9
	Protectionist	James Toohey (re-elected 3)	2,934	12.6
	Free Trade	James Martin (elected 4)	2,918	12.5
	Protectionist	John Wright	2,912	12.5
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise (defeated)	2,899	12.4
	Free Trade	Alban Riley (defeated)	2,824	12.1
	Free Trade	George Pile	2,805	12.0
Total formal votes			23,324	99.9
Informal votes			35	0.2
Turnout			5,819	60.9
	Protectionist hold 1 and gain 2 from Free Trade
	Free Trade hold 1

1887 by-election

This section is an excerpt from 1887 South Sydney colonial by-election § Result.[edit]

1887 South Sydney by-election
Saturday 4 June ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise (re-elected)	2,618	50.4
	Protectionist	William Traill	2,578	49.6
Total formal votes			5,196	99.1
Informal votes			49	0.9
Turnout			5,245	53.9
	Free Trade hold

Bernhard Wise (Free Trade) was appointed Attorney General in the fourth Parkes ministry.^[7]

1887

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1887 New South Wales colonial election § South Sydney.[edit]

1887 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Saturday 5 February ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Free Trade	Alban Riley (elected 1)	3,426	20.2
	Free Trade	Bernhard Wise (elected 2)	3,067	18.1
	Free Trade	George Withers (elected 3)	2,845	16.8
	Protectionist	James Toohey (re-elected 4)	1,999	11.8
	Protectionist	John Davies (defeated)	1,394	8.2
	Protectionist	Alfred Miller	1,356	8.0
	Protectionist	Archibald Forsyth (defeated)	1,110	6.5
	Protectionist	Edward Bennett	1,085	6.4
	Independent	Michael Simmons	685	4.0
Total formal votes			16,967	99.3
Informal votes			126	0.7
Turnout			6,602	68.6

1885

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1885 New South Wales colonial election § South Sydney.[edit]

1885 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Friday 16 October ^[9]

Candidate		Votes	%
John Davies (elected 1)		2,444	17.0
James Toohey (elected 2)		2,309	16.1
Joseph Olliffe (re-elected 3)		2,084	14.5
Archibald Forsyth (elected 4)		2,012	14.0
George Withers (defeated)		1,738	12.1
Alfred Miller		1,563	10.9
Edward O'Sullivan		1,130	7.9
William Poole (defeated)		710	4.9
William Richardson		378	2.6
Total formal votes		14,368	98.3
Informal votes		252	1.7
Turnout		6,268	71.9

1882

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1882 New South Wales colonial election § South Sydney.[edit]

1882 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Saturday 2 December ^[10]

Candidate		Votes	%
Joseph Olliffe (elected 1)		2,672	21.7
John Harris (elected 2)		2,669	21.7
William Poole (re-elected 3)		1,948	15.8
George Withers (re-elected 4)		1,569	12.8
Sydney Burdekin (defeated)		1,412	11.5
John Davies (defeated)		1,345	10.9
George Carter (defeated)		682	5.6
Total formal votes		12,297	98.5
Informal votes		191	1.5
Turnout		4,714	59.6

Sydney Burdekin was a sitting member for Tamworth.

1880

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1880 New South Wales colonial election § South Sydney.[edit]

1880 New South Wales colonial election: South Sydney
Thursday 18 November ^[11]

Candidate		Votes	%
John Davies (re-elected 1)		2,707	17.3
George Withers (elected 2)		2,389	15.3
George Carter (elected 3)		2,170	13.9
William Poole (elected 4)		2,158	13.8
Joseph Olliffe		2,125	13.6
Edward Horden		2,115	13.6
John Fitzgerald		1,040	6.7
Alexander Steel		764	4.9
Aaron Wheeler		144	0.9
Total formal votes		15,612	99.2
Informal votes		133	0.8
Turnout		5,648	69.5
		(new seat)

John Davies was a sitting member for East Sydney.

Notes

1. estimate based on an electoral roll of 9,862 at the 1891 election.^[5]

References

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3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
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