Electoral district of Goldfields West

Goldfields West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1859 to 1880, including the goldfields within a number of western electorates.^[1][2][3] Rolls were not kept for Gold Fields seats, voters being able to establish their right to vote by presenting either a mining licence or business licence in a proclaimed gold field that had been held for at least six months. Voters could also appear on the roll for general districts, but were prevented from voting in both their resident general district and the overlaying Gold Fields district.^[4][5]

Members for Goldfields West

Member		Party	Period
	Robert Wisdom [6]	None	1859–1864
	Stephen Donnelly [7]	None	1864–1866
	George Thornton [8]	None	1867–1868
	Walter Church [9]	None	1869–1872
	David Buchanan [10]	None	1872–1877
	Hugo Louis Beyers [11]	None	1877–1880

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Goldfields West

1877 New South Wales colonial election: Goldfields West
Monday 12 November ^[12]

Candidate		Votes	%
Louis Beyers (elected)		476	57.9
David Buchanan (defeated)		346	42.1
Total formal votes		822	97.9
Informal votes		18	2.1
Turnout		840	8.4

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1877 New South Wales colonial election § Goldfields West.[edit]