HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INDEX OF DIVISIONS ===================================================================== GWYDIR, New South Wales ===================================================================== Named for: Gwydir River (named by the explorer Allan Cunningham after his patron Lord Gwydir, who took his title from a castle in Wales) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1901 Redistributed 1906, 1913, 1922, 1934, 1949, 1955, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1993, 2001 Abolished 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901: Gunnedah, Inverell, Moree, Warialda 1906: Gunnedah, Inverell, Moree, Warialda 1913: Inverell, Moree, Narrabri, Warialda 1922: Dubbo, Gunnedah, Moree, Warialda 1934: Inverell, Moree, Mudgee, Quirindi 1949: Gunnedah, Inverell, Moree, Quirindi 1955: Gunnedah, Inverell, Moree, Quirindi 1969: Dubbo, Gunnedah, Moree, Narrabri 1977: Dubbo, Moree, Narrabri, Narromine 1984: Gunnedah, Moree, Walgett, Wee Wah 1993: Gunnedah, Moree, Mudgee, Walgett 2001: Bourke, Moree, Mudgee, Walgett --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 13,000 1937 54,125 (+01.3) 1974 52,457 (+07.9) 1903 22,360 (+72.0) 1940 54,261 (+00.3) 1975 54,157 (+03.2) 1906* 25,764 (+15.2) 1943 50,980 (-06.0) 1977* 67,931 (+25.4) 1910 30,118 (+16.9) 1946 51,936 (+01.9) 1980 71,534 (+05.3) 1913* 36,180 (+20.1) 1949* 38,236 (-26.4) 1983 73,111 (+02.2) 1914 35,398 (-02.2) 1951 38,765 (+01.4) 1984* 68,284 (-06.6) 1917 35,032 (-01.0) 1954 39,806 (+02.7) 1987 68,719 (+00.6) 1919 32,444 (-07.4) 1955* 41,239 (+03.6) 1990 68,897 (+00.3) 1922* 38,740 (+19.4) 1958 41,491 (+00.6) 1993* 76,706 (+11.3) 1925 39,726 (+02.5) 1961 42,153 (+01.6) 1996 73,855 (-03.3) 1928 41,291 (+03.9) 1963 43,351 (+02.8) 1998 72,185 (-02.3) 1929 42,825 (+03.7) 1966 44,170 (+01.9) 2001* 84,188 (+16.6) 1931 44,359 (+03.6) 1969* 48,138 (+09.0) 2004 82,626 (-01.6) 1934* 53,441 (+20.5) 1972 48,617 (+01.0) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1917 1919 1922 1925 -12.9 +11.4 +03.3 +09.6 +02.2 +03.8 -06.5 +03.2 +00.1 -03.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937b 1937 1940 1943 1946 1949 -02.3 +03.7 -09.8 -04.5 +04.3 +02.4 +08.8 +13.7 +01.2 -05.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 1953b 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 1966 1969b 1969 -03.2 -02.8 -03.1 -07.9 -05.0 -03.9 -05.0 -11.3 -03.6 -03.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1972 1974 1975 1977 1980 1983 1984 1987 1989b 1990 -04.2 -08.6 -13.5 -13.3 -10.4 -08.8 -07.3 -10.3 - na -11.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 1996 1998 2001 2004 -10.3 -18.5 -13.6 -14.9 -18.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Cruickshank (Prot) 1901-03 Thomas Treloar (CP) 1949-53 Hon William Webster (ALP, Nat) Ian Allan (CP) 1953b-69 1903-19 Hon Ralph Hunt (CP, NCP, NPA) Lou Cunningham (ALP) 1919-25 1969b-89 Aubrey Abbott (CP) 1925-29 Hon John Anderson (NPA) 1989b- Hon Lou Cunningham (ALP) 1929-31 2007 Hon Aubrey Abbott (CP) 1931-37 Hon William Scully (ALP) 1937b-49 ---------------------------------------------------------------------