Electoral district of Ashfield

This article is about the former New South Wales electorate. For the existing British constituency, see Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency).

Ashfield was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, first created in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member electoral districts from part of Canterbury, and named after the Sydney suburb of Ashfield. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and absorbed into Western Suburbs. It was recreated in 1927 and, in 1959, it was partly combined with Croydon and renamed Ashfield-Croydon. In 1968, Ashfield-Croydon was replaced by Ashfield, which was abolished again in 1999.^[1][2][3]

Members for Ashfield

First incarnation (1894–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Bavister	Free Trade	1894–1898
	Bernhard Wise	Protectionist	1898–1900
	Frederick Winchcombe	Free Trade	1900–1901
		Liberal Reform	1901–1905
	William Robson	Liberal Reform	1905–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1920
Second incarnation (1927–1959)
Member		Party	Term
	Milton Jarvie	Nationalist	1927–1931
		United Australia	1931–1935
		Independent	1935–1935
	Athol Richardson	United Australia	1935–1943
		Democratic	1943-1945
		Liberal	1945–1952
	Jack Richardson	Labor	1952–1953
	Richard Murden	Liberal	1953–1959
Third incarnation (1968–1999)
Member		Party	Term
	David Hunter	Liberal	1968–1976
	Paul Whelan	Labor	1976–1999

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Ashfield

1995 New South Wales state election: Ashfield ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Paul Whelan	13,902	43.8	−5.4
	Liberal	Morris Mansour	7,836	24.7	−8.5
	No Aircraft Noise	Michelle Calvert	6,269	19.8	+19.8
	Greens	Paul Fitzgerald	2,043	6.4	+6.4
	Democrats	John Collins	1,202	3.8	−3.9
	Call to Australia	Clay Wilson	482	1.5	−0.2
Total formal votes			31,734	93.5	+8.1
Informal votes			2,222	6.5	−8.1
Turnout			33,956	91.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Paul Whelan	18,561	65.2	+5.4
	Liberal	Morris Mansour	9,895	34.8	−5.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.4

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1995 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Ashfield.[edit]