Electoral district of Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, in the vicinity of Darling Harbour. It was 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.^[1] It consisted of the abolished seats of Sydney-Gipps and Sydney-Lang and parts of the abolished seats of Sydney-King and Sydney-Denison. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Balmain.^[2][3][4]

Members for Darling Harbour

Member		Party	Term
	William Daley	Labour	1904–1907
	John Norton	Independent	1907–1910
	John Cochran	Labor	1910–1920

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Darling Harbour

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

1917 New South Wales state election: Darling Harbour ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Cochran	3,264	73.2	+8.3
	Nationalist	William Phillips	1,130	25.3	+25.3
	Independent	William McMahon	65	1.5	+1.5
Total formal votes			4,459	98.3	+2.7
Informal votes			77	1.7	−2.7
Turnout			4,536	46.8	−7.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+8.3