Electoral district of Hurstville

Hurstville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, named after and including the Sydney suburb of Hurstville.

It was first established prior to the 1913 state election. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and absorbed into St George. It was recreated in 1927 and dissolved in a distribution prior to the 1999 state election. Between 1991 and 1999 it was held by Morris Iemma who went on to become Premier of New South Wales in August 2005.^[1][2][3]

Members for Hurstville

First incarnation (1913–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Sam Toombs	Labor	1913–1917
	Thomas Ley	Nationalist	1917–1920
Second incarnation (1927–1999)
Member		Party	Term
	Walter Butler	Labor	1927–1932
	James Webb	United Australia	1932–1939
	Clive Evatt	Industrial Labor	1939
		Labor	1939–1956
		Independent	1956–1959
	Bill Rigby	Labor	1959–1965
	Tom Mead	Liberal	1965–1976
	Kevin Ryan	Labor	1976–1984
	Guy Yeomans	Liberal	1984–1991
	Morris Iemma	Labor	1991–1999

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Hurstville

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1995 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Hurstville.[edit]

1995 New South Wales state election: Hurstville ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Morris Iemma	18,771	57.1	+8.3
	Liberal	Mick Frawley	12,759	38.8	-3.3
	Independent	Saad Turk	1,369	4.2	+4.2
Total formal votes			32,899	93.6	+4.9
Informal votes			2,240	6.4	-4.9
Turnout			35,139	94.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Morris Iemma	19,410	59.6	+5.0
	Liberal	Mick Frawley	13,131	40.4	-5.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.0

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Hurstville". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
4. Green, Antony. "1995 Hurstville". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.