Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales)

This article is about the NSW electorate. For the Victoria electorate, see Electoral district of Nepean. For the federal electorate, see Division of Nepean.

Nepean was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1859, and named after the Nepean River. It was abolished in 1904 due to the 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] Nepean was recreated in 1927 and abolished again in 1981.^[2][3][4]

Members for Nepean

First incarnation (1859–1904)
Member		Party	Term
	Robert Jamison	None	1859–1860
	James Ryan	None	1860–1872
	Joseph Single	None	1872–1874
	Patrick Shepherd	None	1874–1877
	Thomas Smith	None	1877–1887
	Samuel Lees	Free Trade	1887–1895
	Thomas Smith	Protectionist	1895–1898
	Samuel Lees	Free Trade	1898–1901
	Thomas Smith	Progressive	1901–1904
Second incarnation (1927–1981)
Member		Party	Term
	Joseph Jackson	Nationalist	1927–1931
		United Australia	1931–1944
		Independent	1944–1945
		Liberal	1945–1956
	Bill Chapman	Liberal	1956–1962
	Alfred Bennett	Labor	1962–1965
	Ron Dunbier	Liberal	1965–1971
	Ron Mulock	Labor	1971–1973
	Ron Rofe	Liberal	1973–1978
	Peter Anderson	Labor	1978–1981

Election results

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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1978 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Nepean.[edit]

1978 New South Wales state election: Nepean ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Peter Anderson	20,720	56.1	+5.0
	Liberal	Ron Rofe	14,466	39.2	−5.7
	Democrats	Ronald Edwards	1,752	4.7	+4.7
Total formal votes			36,938	98.4	−0.3
Informal votes			602	1.6	+0.3
Turnout			37,540	93.6	+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Peter Anderson	21,596	58.5	+10.8
	Liberal	Ron Rofe	15,342	41.5	−10.8
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.8