Electoral district of Sherbrooke

This article is about the Australian electoral district. For the Canadian electoral districts, see Sherbrooke (federal electoral district) and Sherbrooke (provincial electoral district). For former Canadian electoral districts, see Sherbrooke (disambiguation).

Sherbrooke was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian colony (and state from 1901) of New South Wales, existing from 1894 until 1913.^[1][2][3][4] It included Blacktown and Baulkham Hills. It was named after Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke.

Members for Sherbrooke

Member		Party	Period
	Jacob Garrard	Free Trade	1894–1898
	Broughton O'Conor	Protectionist	1898–1901
		Independent	1901–1904
		Liberal Reform	1904–1907
	John Hunt	Liberal Reform	1907–1913

History

Multi-member constituencies were abolished in the 1893 redistribution, resulting in the creation of 76 new districts, including Sherbrooke.^[5] Sherbrooke consisted of the north western part of the four member district of Central Cumberland, a south eastern part of the single member district of The Hawkesbury and an eastern part of the single member district of The Nepean.^[6][7]

Sherbrooke was expanded to include part of The Hawkesbury and parts of the abolished districts of The Nepean and Ryde and Willoughby as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum which reduced the number of members of the Legislative Assembly from 125 to 90.^[8] The district was abolished in 1913.^[9]

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Sherbrooke

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

1910 New South Wales state election: Sherbrooke ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Reform	John Hunt	4,407	67.4
	Labour	Andrew Thompson	2,134	32.6
Total formal votes			6,541	98.0
Informal votes			133	2.0
Turnout			6,674	74.5
	Liberal Reform hold