Electoral district of North Eastern Boroughs (NSW Legislative Council)

North Eastern Boroughs
New South Wales—Legislative Council
North Eastern Boroughs; New South Wales—Legislative Council
State	New South Wales
Created	1851
Abolished	1856
Coordinates	32°55′S 151°45′E / 32.917°S 151.750°E

The Electoral district of North Eastern Boroughs was an electorate of the New South Wales Legislative Council at a time when some of its members were elected and the balance were appointed by the Governor. It was a new electorate created in 1851 by the expansion of the Legislative Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected.^[1] The district consisted of the towns of Newcastle, Stockton and Raymond Terrace that had previously been part of Northumberland Boroughs.^[1]

In 1856 the unicameral Legislative Council was abolished and replaced with an elected Legislative Assembly and an appointed Legislative Council. The district was represented by the Legislative Assembly electorate of North Eastern Boroughs.

Members

Member	Term
Edward Flood ^[2]	Sep 1851 – Feb 1856

Edward Flood went on to represent North Eastern Boroughs in the Legislative Assembly from 1856.

Election results

1851

1851 New South Wales colonial election, 20 September:
North Eastern Boroughs ^[3]
Candidate	Votes	%
Edward Flood	47	55.95
Charles Kemp	37	44.05
Total votes	84	100.00

References

^ ^a ^b An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales after the separation of the District of Port Phillip therefrom into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council (PDF) (48). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 2 May 1851. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
^ "Mr Edward Flood (1805–1888)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
^ "The elections: The North Eastern Boroughs". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 27 September 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 30 May 2019 – via Trove.

[1851Act-1] An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales after the separation of the District of Port Phillip therefrom into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council (PDF) (48). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 2 May 1851. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

[Edward_Flood_NSW_Parl-2] "Mr Edward Flood (1805–1888)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2019.

[3] "The elections: The North Eastern Boroughs". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 27 September 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 30 May 2019 – via Trove.

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v t e Former electoral districts of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Elections	1843 (results) 1848 (results) 1851 (results) by-elections
Members	1843–1851 1851–1856
Towns	Cumberland Boroughs North Eastern Boroughs Northumberland Boroughs Town of Parramatta Southern Boroughs City of Sydney Sydney Hamlets
Counties	Argyle Bathurst Camden Cook and Westmoreland Cumberland Durham Gloucester and Macquarie Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley Hunter, Brisbane and Bligh King and Georgiana Murray and St Vincent Murray, King and Georgiana Northumberland Northumberland and Hunter Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh Roxburgh and Wellington Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington St Vincent and Auckland Western Boroughs
Pastoral districts	Clarence and Darling Downs Lachlan and Lower Darling Liverpool Plains and Gwydir Maneroo Murrumbidgee New England and Macleay Wellington and Bligh
Victoria	Town of Melbourne Port Phillip
Queensland	Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa County of Stanley Stanley Boroughs