Electoral district of Hartley (New South Wales)

Hartley was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1859 in the Lithgow area and named after the town of Hartley, near Lithgow. It replaced part of Cook and Westmoreland. From 1891 to 1894, it elected two members. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Bathurst, along with Orange. It was recreated in 1927 and abolished in 1968 and partly replaced by Blue Mountains.^[1][2][3]

Members for Hartley

Single-member (1859–1891)
Member		Party	Term
	Henry Rotton	None	1859–1864
	John Lucas	None	1864–1869
	James Neale	None	1869–1872
	Thomas Brown	None	1872–1876
	John Hurley	None	1876–1880
	Robert Abbott	None	1880–1882
	Walter Targett	None	1882–1887
	John Hurley	Free Trade	1887–1891
Two members (1891–1894)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Joseph Cook	Labour	1891–1894		George Donald	Free Trade	1891–1894
Single-member (1894–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Joseph Cook	Independent Labour	1894–1894
		Free Trade	1894–1901
	John Hurley	Independent	1901–1904
		Liberal Reform	1904–1907
	James Dooley	Labor	1907–1920
Single-member (1927–1968)
Member		Party	Term
	Hamilton Knight	Labor	1927–1947
	Jim Chalmers	Labor	1947–1953
		Independent Labor	1953–1956
	Jim Robson	Labor	1956–1965
	Harold Coates	Independent	1965–1968

Election results

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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1965 New South Wales state election § Hartley.[edit]

1965 New South Wales state election: Hartley ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jim Robson	8,228	47.4	−1.5
	Independent	Harold Coates	7,984	46.0	−1.5
	Democratic Labor	Laurence Breen	1,151	6.6	+6.6
Total formal votes			17,363	98.7	0.0
Informal votes			224	1.3	0.0
Turnout			17,587	95.8	−0.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Harold Coates	8,933	51.4	+2.1
	Labor	Jim Robson	8,430	48.6	−2.1
	Independent gain from Labor		Swing	+2.1