HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INDEX OF DIVISIONS ===================================================================== DARLING, New South Wales ===================================================================== Named for: Darling River (after Lt-Gen Sir Ralph Darling (1772-1858), Governor of NSW 1825-31) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1901 Redistributed 1906, 1913, 1922, 1934, 1949, 1955, 1969 Abolished 1977 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901: Bourke, Cobar, Coonamble, Gilgandra 1906: Cobar, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Narromine 1913: Cobar, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Narromine 1922: Broken Hill, Condoblin, Coonamble, Nyngan 1934: Broken Hill, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Narromine 1949: Broken Hill, Condoblin, Nyngan, Wentworth 1955: Broken Hill, Coonamble, Nyngan, Wentworth 1969: Broken Hill, Condoblin, Narromine, Wentworth --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 8,930 1928 41,214 (+01.6) 1954 36,746 (+02.9) 1903 15,268 (+71.0) 1929 39,566 (-04.0) 1955* 38,368 (+04.4) 1906* 26,244 (+71.9) 1931 40,842 (+03.2) 1958 38,878 (+01.3) 1910 27,833 (+06.1) 1934* 50,752 (+24.3) 1961 38,137 (-01.9) 1913* 32,051 (+15.2) 1937 53,340 (+05.1) 1963 37,648 (-01.3) 1914 30,464 (-05.0) 1940 54,044 (+01.3) 1966 37,929 (+00.7) 1917 29,777 (-02.3) 1943 51,302 (-03.2) 1969* 43,409 (+14.4) 1919 27,665 (-07.1) 1946 51,496 (+00.4) 1972 44,372 (+02.2) 1922* 37,017 (+33.8) 1949* 35,452 (-31.2) 1974 47,290 (+06.6) 1925 40,580 (+09.6) 1951 35,702 (+00.7) 1975 47,979 (+01.5) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1917 1919 1922 1925 +06.7 +08.2 +07.9 +14.7 +10.5 +10.5 +03.3 +11.8 +15.1 +15.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937 1940 1943 1946 1949 1951 +20.9 +20.2 +13.9 +13.5 + na + na + na +16.8 +17.3 +18.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 1966 1969 1972 1974 1975 +20.5 +17.5 +22.4 +22.6 +17.4 +10.3 +10.3 +13.1 +13.8 +07.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William Spence (ALP, Nat) Joseph Clark (ALP-NSW, ALP) 1901-17 1934-69 Hon Arthur Blakeley (ALP) 1917-34 John FitzPatrick (ALP) 1969-77 ---------------------------------------------------------------------