Electoral district of Newcastle

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox Australian Electorate Newcastle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including Newcastle. It is represented since the 2014 Newcastle by-election by Tim Crakanthorp of the Australian Labor Party.

Geography

The district takes in the eastern part of the City of Newcastle, including the parts of the suburbs from Hexham to Mayfield lying to the east of the Main North railway line, Broadmeadow, Hamilton South, Merewether Heights and Merewether and the suburbs further east, including central Newcastle and Hamilton. It also includes the Port Stephens Council suburbs of Fern Bay and Fullerton Cove.[1]

History

Newcastle was created in 1859 from part of North Eastern Boroughs. It gained a second member in 1880 and a third member in 1889.[2] With the abolition of multi-member electorates in 1894, it was divided into Newcastle East, Newcastle West, Kahibah, Waratah and Wickham. These changes to the electoral boundaries were debated.[3][4] Newcastle was re-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.[5] It consisted of Newcastle East and part of Newcastle West. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, it absorbed Kahibah, Wallsend and Wickham and elected five members. With the end of proportional representation in 1927, Newcastle was split into the single-member electorates of Newcastle, Hamilton, Kahibah and Wallsend.[6]

It has since been usually held by the Labor Party. This pattern was threatened in early 2007, when sitting member Bryce Gaudry lost his preselection to a former local newsreader, Jodi McKay. Gaudry opted to stand as an independent and as a consequence split the Labor Party's vote. Independent former Lord Mayor of Newcastle John Tate came close to winning the seat after preferences but McKay managed to hold on. Labor's previous margin of over 15% had been slashed to as little as 1.4%, making it one of Labor's most marginal seats.[7][8]

At the 2011 New South Wales state election, Liberal Tim Owen defeated incumbent and one-term member McKay and popular Independent Tate, marking the first time the Liberals or their predecessors had won Newcastle as a single-member seat in over a century. This was one of many gains the Liberals made in what was previously Labor heartland.

Owen became an independent and moved to the crossbench on 6 August 2014 after accusations at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).[9] He resigned from parliament on 12 August 2014 after evidence of corruption was uncovered.[10] The Liberals opted not to contest the ensuing by-election, which saw Labor's Tim Crakanthorp reclaim the seat handily.

Members for Newcastle

First incarnation (1859–1880, 1 member)
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None 1859–1860
Template:Australian party style|  James Hannell
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None 1860–1869
Template:Australian party style|  George Lloyd
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None 1869–1877
Template:Australian party style|  Richard Bowker
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None 1877–1880
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None 1880–1887 Template:Australian party style|  George Lloyd
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None 1880–1882
Template:Australian party style|  James Ellis
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Template:Australian party style|  George Lloyd
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None 1885–1887
Template:Australian party style|  Template:Australian politics/name 1887–1889 Template:Australian party style|  James Ellis
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rowspan="2" Template:Australian party style|  James Fletcher
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Template:Australian politics/name 1889–1891 rowspan="2" Template:Australian party style|  Alexander Brown
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Template:Australian politics/name 1889–1891 Template:Australian party style|  William Grahame
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Template:Australian politics/name 1889–1889
Template:Australian party style|  James Curley
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Template:Australian party style|  William Grahame
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Template:Australian politics/name 1891–1894 Template:Australian party style|  David Scott
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Template:Australian politics/name 1891–1894 Template:Australian party style|  John Fegan
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Second incarnation (1904–1920, 1 member)
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Template:Australian party style|  Owen Gilbert
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Template:Australian politics/name 1907–1910
Template:Australian party style|  Arthur Gardiner
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rowspan="2" Template:Australian party style|  Arthur Gardiner
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Template:Australian politics/name 1920–1922 rowspan="2" Template:Australian party style|  John Estell
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Template:Australian politics/name 1920–1922 Template:Australian party style|  John Fegan
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Template:Australian politics/name 1920–1922 Template:Australian party style|  William Kearsley
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Template:Australian politics/name 1920–1921 rowspan="4" Template:Australian party style|  Hugh Connell
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Template:Australian politics/name 1921–1927
Template:Australian party style|  Walter Skelton
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Template:Australian politics/name 1922–1925 rowspan="2" Template:Australian party style|  Jack Baddeley
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Template:Australian politics/name 1922–1927 Template:Australian party style|  Magnus Cromarty
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Template:Australian party style|  Template:Australian politics/name 1925–1927 Template:Australian party style|  George Booth
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Template:Australian party style|  Frank Hawkins
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Template:Australian party style|  Arthur Wade
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Template:Australian party style|  George Keegan
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Template:Australian party style|  Bryce Gaudry
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Template:Australian party style|  Tim Owen
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Election results

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  10. ↑ Newcastle MP Tim Owen and Charlestown MP Andrew Cornwell resign from NSW Parliament following ICAC donations inquiry: SMH 12 August 2014
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