Electoral district of Burwood (New South Wales)

Burwood was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including the Sydney suburb of Burwood. It was originally created in 1894, when multi-member districts were abolished,^[1] and the four member Canterbury was largely divided between Ashfield, Burwood, Canterbury, Petersham and St George. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Ryde, along with Drummoyne, Gordon and Willoughby. It was recreated in 1927, but was abolished in 1988 and partly replaced by Strathfield.^[2][3][4]

Members for Burwood

First incarnation (1894–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	William McMillan	Free Trade	1894–1898
	William Archer	Independent	1898–1904
	Thomas Henley	Liberal Reform	1904–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1920
Second incarnation (1927–1988)
Member		Party	Term
	Sir Thomas Henley	Nationalist	1927–1932
		United Australia	1932–1935
	Gordon Jackett [a]	United Australia	1935–1938
	Harrie Mitchell	United Australia	1938–1941
	Gordon Jackett [a]	Ind. United Australia	1941–1944
		Democratic	1944–1945
		Liberal	1945–1951
	Leslie Parr	Liberal	1951–1956
	Ben Doig	Liberal	1957–1965
		Independent	1965–1965
	John Jackett [a]	Liberal	1965–1978
	Phil O'Neill	Labor	1978–1984
	Paul Zammit	Liberal	1984–1988

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Burwood (New South Wales)

1984 New South Wales state election: Burwood ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Zammit	14,377	49.9	+8.1
	Labor	Phil O'Neill	13,556	47.1	−8.1
	Democrats	Stephen Kirkham	857	3.0	−0.1
Total formal votes			28,790	97.4	+0.9
Informal votes			775	2.6	−0.9
Turnout			29,565	92.8	+2.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Paul Zammit	14,802	51.6	+8.8
	Labor	Phil O'Neill	13,869	48.4	−8.8
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+8.8

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1984 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Burwood.[edit]

Notes

1. Gordon Jackett was the father of John Jackett.^[5]