Belmore was an electoral district

New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts

The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is elected from 93 single-member electorates called districts.- Current districts :This is a list of districts for the 2011 state election.* Albury* Auburn* Ballina...

 of the Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, created in 1904 in inner Sydney

Sydney

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 from part of the Sydney-Belmore

Electoral district of Sydney-Belmore

Sydney-Belmore was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, when it was replaced by Belmore.-Members for Sydney-Belmore:...

 and named after Governor

Governors of New South Wales

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 Belmore

Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore

Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore GCMG, PC , styled as Viscount Corry from 1841 to 1845, was an Irish nobleman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

. It was originally in northern Surry Hills

Surry Hills, New South Wales

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 bounded by Elizabeth Street

Elizabeth Street, Sydney

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, Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street, Sydney

Liverpool Street is an important east-west thoroughfare of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool Street is in the southern portion of the Sydney central business district and forms the southern boundary of Hyde Park...

, Oxford Street

Oxford Street, Sydney

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, Riley Street and Foveaux Street. In 1904 it changed its name to Belmore and in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation

Proportional representation

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, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Sydney

Electoral district of Sydney

Sydney is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Inner Sydney. It includes the commercial centre of the Sydney CBD; the suburbs and localities of Barangaroo, Broadway, Chinatown, Chippendale, Darling Harbour, Dawes Point, Elizabeth Bay,...

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Members for Belmore

Member		Party	Term
	Edward O'Sullivan Edward William O'Sullivan Edward William O'Sullivan was an Australian journalist and politician.As a politician, O'Sullivan had strong Labour sympathies before the Labor Party had developed in New South Wales, and worked untiringly for old-age pensions until they became law in 1900...	Progressive	1904–1909
		Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1909–1910
	Patrick Minahan	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1910–1917
	Michael Burke	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1917–1920