Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1920–1922

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 25th parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1920 to 1922. They were elected at the 1920 state election on 20 March 1920.[1][2][3] The Speaker was Daniel Levy with the exception of 13–20 December 1921 when he was replaced by Simon Hickey.[4]

Between 1920 and 1927 the Legislative Assembly was elected using a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark). There was confusion at the time as to the process to be used to fill the vacancy. When George Beeby resigned on 9 August 1920, in accordance with the practice prior to 1920, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly issued a writ of election requiring a by-election to be conducted, however the Chief Electoral Officer said he couldn't do so under the law at the time and that a by-election would be contrary to the principle of proportional representation.[10] The vacancies were left unfilled until the Parliament passed the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act on 10 December 1920,[11] so that casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate on the incumbent member's party list. If an Independent member retired, the Clerk of the Assembly determined who would fill the vacancy based on the departing members voting record on questions of confidence.

Name Party Electorate Term in office'
David Anderson   Nationalist Ryde 1920–1930
Guy Arkins   Nationalist St George 1915–1930 1938–1941
Richard Arthur   Nationalist North Shore 1904–1932
William Ashford   Nationalist Wammerawa 1910–1925
William Bagnall   Nationalist St George 1913–1925 1925–1927
Jack Bailey   Labor Goulburn 1918–1925
Richard Ball   Nationalist Murray 1895–1898 1904–1937
Thomas Bavin   Progressive Ryde 1917–1935
George Beeby [a]   Progressive Murray 1907–1913 1917–1920
Walter Bennett   Progressive Maitland 1889–1902 1917–1934
John Birt   Labor Sydney 1919–1925
George Briner [b]   Progressive Oxley 1901–1920
Percy Brookfield [f]   Socialist Labor Sturt 1917–1921
Albert Bruntnell   Nationalist Parramatta 1906–1907 1910–1913 1919–1929
Michael Bruxner   Progressive Northern Tablelands 1920–1962
Arthur Buckley   Labor Sydney 1917–1922
Frank Burke   Labor Botany 1917–1944
Michael Burke   Labor Sydney 1917–1922 1925–1930
Ernest Buttenshaw   Progressive Murrumbidgee 1917–1938
William Cameron   Nationalist Maitland 1918–1931
George Cann   Labor St George 1914–1927
Ernest Carr   Nationalist Cumberland 1920–1922
Frank Chaffey   Nationalist Namoi 1913–1940
Joseph Clark   Labor Wammerawa 1920–1927 1930–1932
John Cleary   Labor Wollondilly 1920–1922
Arthur Cocks   Nationalist North Shore 1910–1925
Hugh Connell   Labor Newcastle 1920–1934
Mat Davidson   Labor Sturt 1918–1949
Billy Davies   Labor Wollondilly 1917–1949
Brian Doe   Nationalist Sturt 1917–1927
James Dooley   Labor Bathurst 1907–1927
John Doyle   Labor Balmain 1917–1922
David Drummond   Progressive Northern Tablelands 1920–1949
Bill Dunn   Labor Wammerawa 1910–1911, 1911–1932, 1935–1950
Daniel Dwyer [d]   Labor Eastern Suburbs 1920–1922
Bill Ely   Labor Parramatta 1920–1922, 1925–1932
John Estell   Labor Newcastle 1901–1913 1917–1922
John Fegan   Nationalist Newcastle 1891–1907 1920–1922
James Fingleton [d]   Labor Eastern Suburbs 1913–1917 1920
Joseph Fitzgerald   Labor Oxley 1920–1927 1930–1932
John Fitzpatrick   Nationalist Bathurst 1895–1904 1907–1930
Martin Flannery   Labor Murrumbidgee 1920–1932
Sir George Fuller   Nationalist Wollondilly 1889–1894 1915–1928
Arthur Gardiner   Independent Newcastle 1910–1922
Mark Gosling   Labor St George 1920–1932
Robert Greig   Labor Ryde 1920–1927 1941–1947
Arthur Grimm   Nationalist Murrumbidgee 1913–1925
Sir Thomas Henley   Nationalist Ryde 1904–1935
Simon Hickey   Labor Botany 1912–1922
Theodore Hill [b]   Progressive Oxley 1920–1927
Tom Hoskins   Nationalist Western Suburbs 1913–1927
Harold Jaques   Nationalist Eastern Suburbs 1920–1930
Gus James [c]   Nationalist Goulburn 1907–1920
Valentine Johnston   Labor Bathurst 1917–1922
William Kearsley [e]   Labor Newcastle 1910–1921
Tom Keegan [g]   Labor Balmain 1910–1920 1921–1935
Matthew Kilpatrick [a]   Progressive Murray 1920–1941
Jack Lang   Labor Parramatta 1913–1943, 1943–1946
Carlo Lazzarini   Labor Western Suburbs 1917–1952
John Lee   Nationalist Botany 1920–1930 1932–1941
Daniel Levy   Nationalist Sydney 1901–1937
Thomas Ley   Progressive St George 1917–1925
Peter Loughlin   Labor Cootamundra 1917–1927, 1932–1935
Edward Loxton   Ind. Nationalist Ryde 1920–1925
James MacArthur-Onslow   Progressive Eastern Suburbs 1907–1922
Hugh Main   Progressive Cootamundra 1920–1938
Alfred McClelland   Labor Northern Tablelands 1920–1927 1930–1932
Greg McGirr   Labor Cootamundra 1913–1925
William McKell   Labor Botany 1917–1947
Edward McTiernan   Labor Western Suburbs 1920–1927
William Millard [c][h]   Nationalist Goulburn 1894–1920 1920–1921
Patrick Minahan   Labor Sydney 1910–1917 1920–1927
Voltaire Molesworth   Labor Cumberland 1920–1925
Cecil Murphy   Labor North Shore 1920–1927
David Murray [e]   Labor Newcastle 1921–1928
Thomas Mutch   Labor Botany 1917 -1930 1938–1941
George Nesbitt   Nationalist Byron 1913–1925
Charles Oakes   Nationalist Eastern Suburbs 1901–1910 1917–1925
William O'Brien   Labor Murray 1917–1925
Walter O'Hearn   Labor Maitland 1920–1932
Bob O'Halloran   Labor Eastern Suburbs 1920–1927 1941–1947
Stephen Perdriau   Progressive Byron 1920–1925
John Perkins [h]   Nationalist Goulburn 1921–1926
Richard Price   Progressive Oxley 1894–1904 1907–1922
John Quirk   Labor Balmain 1917–1938
Alfred Reid   Ind. Nationalist North Shore 1920–1922, 1925–1945
Thomas Rutledge   Progressive Goulburn 1920–1925
Patrick Scully   Labor Namoi 1920–1923
Sydney Shillington   Nationalist Western Suburbs 1919–1922
Albert Smith   Nationalist Balmain 1920–1922
John Storey [g]   Labor Balmain 1901–1904 1907–1921
Robert Stuart-Robertson   Labor Balmain 1907–1933
Tom Swiney   Labor Byron 1920–1922
Bruce Walker   Nationalist Cumberland 1917–1932
Walter Wearne   Progressive Namoi 1917–1930
Reginald Weaver   Nationalist North Shore 1917–1925, 1927–1945
James Wilson   Progressive Western Suburbs 1920–1925
Jabez Wright [f]   Labor Sturt 1913–1920 1921–1922
  1. ^ a b c Murray Progressive MLA George Beeby resigned on 9 August 1920 to accept appointment as a Judge of the New South Wales arbitration court. He was replaced by Matthew Kilpatrick on 15 December 1920.
  2. ^ a b c Oxley Progressive MLA George Briner died on 9 September 1920. He was replaced by Theodore Hill on 15 December 1920.
  3. ^ a b c Goulburn Nationalist MLA Gus James resigned on 21 September 1920 to take an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. He was replaced by William Millard on 15 December 1920.
  4. ^ a b c Eastern Suburbs Labor MLA James Fingleton died on 13 October 1920. Scott Campbell had been the first unsuccessful candidate at the 1920 election nominated by the Labor Party, however his endorsement was withdrawn before the polling day because he signed a pledge for the unconditional release of twelve imprisoned members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Labor decided that the first unsuccessful party candidate was Daniel Dwyer,[5] and he took his seat on 15 December 1920.[6]
  5. ^ a b c Newcastle Labor MLA William Kearsley died on 19 June 1921. He was replaced by David Murray on 30 August.
  6. ^ a b c The member for Sturt Percy Brookfield was murdered while trying to disarm a deranged man at Riverton on 22 March 1921. Which party interest Brookfield represented was not straightforward. He had been elected under the banner of the Socialist Labor Party at the 1920 election for Sturt, however he formed a new Industrial Labor Party in February 1921, shortly before his death.[7] There was debate concerning who should be appointed. The Industrial Labor Party said that John O'Reilly should be appointed, while The Sydney Morning Herald stated that Thomas Hynes had the greater number of primary votes at the 1920 election and thus he should be appointed.[8] The nomination had to come from the recognised party leader according to votes on any censure motion and Labor leader and Premier John Storey nominated Jabez Wright who took his seat on 30 August 1921.[9]
  7. ^ a b c The premier and Balmain Labor MLA John Storey died on 5 October 1921. He was replaced by Tom Keegan on 18 October.
  8. ^ a b c Goulburn Nationalist MLA William Millard died on 8 October 1921. He had been appointed to replace Augustus James and, as there were no further unsuccessful Nationalist candidates, the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act was amended to allow his replacement by John Perkins on 22 November 1921.
  9. ^ The changes to the composition of the house, in chronological order, were Beeby resigned,[a] Briner died,[b] James resigned,[c] Fingleton died,[d] Kearsley died,[e] Brookfield murdered,[f] Storey died,[g] and Millard died.[h]

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  1. ^ Green, Antony. "1920 District List". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  2. ^ Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  4. ^ Part 10 Officers of the Parliament (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Vacant seats: party representation maintained, caucus decision". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 October 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 2 November 2019 – via Trove.
  6. ^ Green, Antony. "1920 Eastern Suburbs appointment". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  7. ^ "New labor organisation". The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser. New South Wales, Australia. 5 February 1921. p. 4. Retrieved 5 November 2019 – via Trove.
  8. ^ "Sturt vacancy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 April 1921. p. 9. Retrieved 5 November 2019 – via Trove.
  9. ^ Green, Antony. "1921 Sturt by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  10. ^ "No by-election. Official decision: speaker's writ for Murray useless". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 August 1920. p. 13. Retrieved 3 November 2019 – via Trove.[i]
  11. ^ Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920 (NSW).
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