Electoral district of Yass Plains

Yass Plains was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales between 1859 and 1894. It largely replaced the electoral district of King and Georgiana. It was largely replaced by Yass in 1894.^[1][2][3]

Members for Yass Plains

Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Laidlaw	None	1859–1860
	Henry O'Brien	None	1860–1861
	Peter Faucett	None	1861–1865
	Robert Isaacs	None	1865–1869
	Michael Fitzpatrick	None	1869–1881
	Louis Heydon	None	1882–1886
	Thomas Colls	None	1886–1887
		Protectionist	1887–1894

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Yass Plains

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1891 New South Wales colonial election § Yass Plains.[edit]

1891 New South Wales colonial election: Yass Plains
Wednesday 24 June ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Thomas Colls (re-elected)	709	56.7
	Free Trade	William Affleck	210	16.8
	Protectionist	Bernard Grogan	199	15.9
	Labour	Gustavus Herfort	132	10.6
Total formal votes			1,250	97.7
Informal votes			30	2.3
Turnout			1,280	56.9
	Protectionist hold

References

1. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Yass Plains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
4. Green, Antony. "1891 Yass Plains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2020.