Electoral district of Gwydir

For the federal electorate, see Division of Gwydir.

The Gwydir was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1859, when Liverpool Plains and Gwydir was divided, and named after and including the Gwydir River. In 1894 it was abolished and largely replaced by Moree and Barwon. It was re-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 seat of Moree and part of Inverell. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and largely merged, along with Tamworth, into Namoi.^[2][3][4]

Members for Gwydir

First incarnation (1859–1894)
Member		Party	Term
	Richard Jenkins	None	1859–1860
	Francis Rusden	None	1860–1864
	Thomas Dangar	None	1864–1880
	William Campbell	None	1880–1886
	Thomas Hassall	None	1886–1887
		Protectionist	1887–1894
Second incarnation (1904–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	George Jones	Labour	1904–1913
	John Crane	Farmers and Settlers	1913–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1920

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Gwydir

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

1917 New South Wales state election: Gwydir ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	John Crane	3,542	59.2	+4.4
	Labor	William Scully	2,440	40.8	−4.4
Total formal votes			5,982	99.4	+2.0
Informal votes			38	0.6	−2.0
Turnout			6,020	61.0	−2.2
	Nationalist hold		Swing	+4.4