Electoral district of Belmore

Belmore was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904 in inner Sydney from Sydney-Belmore and parts of the abolished seats of Sydney-Cook and Sydney-Phillip.^[1] It was named after Governor Belmore. It was originally in northern Surry Hills bounded by George Street and the Darling Harbour railway line in the west, Cleveland Street in the south, Liverpool Street, Oxford Street in the north and Riley Street, Wilton Street and Waterloo streets in the east.^[2] In 1913 it absorbed part of the abolished seat of Pyrmont. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Sydney.^[3][4][5]

Members for Belmore

Member		Party	Term
	Edward O'Sullivan	Progressive	1904–1909
		Labour	1909–1910
	Patrick Minahan	Labor	1910–1917
	Michael Burke	Labor	1917–1920

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Belmore

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1917 New South Wales state election § Belmore.[edit]

1917 New South Wales state election: Belmore ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Michael Burke	3,224	66.9	+16.0
	Independent Labor	Thomas Barlow	1,596	33.1	+33.1
Total formal votes			4,820	98.5	+1.9
Informal votes			71	1.5	−1.9
Turnout			4,891	48.1	−11.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+16.0

The sitting Labor member for Belmore, Patrick Minahan, lost preselection and unsuccessfully contested Cootamundra against Labor turned Nationalist Premier William Holman.