Electoral district of Northumberland

Northumberland was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1859 to 1913, in the Newcastle area and named after Northumberland County. It elected two members simultaneously between 1880 and 1887 and three members between 1887 and 1894. Voters cast a vote for each vacancy and the leading candidates were elected.^[1][2][3]

Members for Northumberland

Single-member (1859–1880)
Member		Party	Term
	Alexander Scott	None	1859–1860
	Thomas Lewis	None	1860–1862
	Atkinson Tighe	None	1862–1869
	William Brookes	None	1869–1872
	James Hannell	None	1872–1874
	Charles Stevens	None	1874–1877
	William Turner	None	1877–1877
	Thomas Hungerford	None	1877–1880
	Ninian Melville	None	1880–1880
Two members (1880–1887)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Ninian Melville	None	1880–1887		William Turner	None	1880–1881
					Thomas Hungerford	None	1882–1882
					Atkinson Tighe	None	1882–1884
					Richard Luscombe	None	1884–1885
					Joseph Creer	None	1885–1887
Three members (1887–1894)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Ninian Melville	Protectionist	1887–1894		Joseph Creer	Ind. Protectionist	1887–1889		Thomas Walker	Protectionist	1887–1894
						Protectionist	1889–1891
					Alfred Edden	Labour	1891–1894
Single-member (1894–1913)
Member		Party	Term
	Richard Stevenson	Protectionist	1894–1895
	Henry Wheeler	Free Trade	1895–1898
	Richard Stevenson	Protectionist	1898–1899
	John Norton	Ind. Protectionist	1899–1904
	Matthew Charlton	Labour	1904–1910
	William Kearsley	Labour	1910–1913

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Northumberland

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 New South Wales state election § Northumberland.[edit]

1910 New South Wales state election: Northumberland ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Kearsley	7,389	79.1
	Independent Liberal	Reginald Harris	1,957	20.9
Total formal votes			9,346	97.6
Informal votes			228	2.4
Turnout			9,574	56.9
	Labour hold