HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INDEX OF DIVISIONS ===================================================================== SOUTH SYDNEY / WATSON, New South Wales ===================================================================== * South Sydney named for: Region of the city of Sydney * Watson named for: Hon Chris Watson (1867-1941), NSW MP 1894-1901, federal MP 1901-10, Prime Minister 1904 (first Labor Prime Minister) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1901 Redistributed 1906, 1913, 1922, 1934 (renamed Watson), 1949, 1955 Abolished 1969 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901: Botany, Newtown, Waterloo 1906: Botany, Foveaux, Redfern, Surry Hills 1913: Foveaux, Kensington, Redfern, Surry Hills 1922: Coogee, Kensington, Randwick, Redfern 1934: Coogee, Kensington, Maroubra, Randwick 1949: Banksmeadow, Kensington, La Perouse, Maroubra 1955: Banksmeadow, Mascot, Redfern, Tempe --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 15,777 1925 51,478 (+21.9) 1949* 42,097 (-45.1) 1903 31,765 (+101.3) 1928 55,720 (+08.2) 1951 42,576 (+01.1) 1906* 29,481 (-07.2) 1929 58,672 (+05.3) 1954 42,708 (+00.3) 1910 31,370 (+06.4) 1931 60,128 (+02.5) 1955* 44,151 (+03.4) 1913 41,930 (+33.7) 1934* 56,501 (-06.0) 1958 41,641 (-05.7) 1914 44,775 (+06.8) 1937 61,255 (+08.4) 1961 39,531 (-05.0) 1917 42,649 (-04.7) 1940 66,056 (+07.8) 1963 39,186 (-00.9) 1919 43,772 (+02.6) 1943 71,999 (+09.0) 1966 38,546 (-01.6) 1922* 42,216 (-03.6) 1946 76,624 (+06.4) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1917 1919 1922 1925 -01.7 -06.0 +06.4 +24.1 +15.0 +18.8 +13.3 +18.3 +11.7 +01.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937 1940 1943 1946 1949 1951 +04.2 +16.3 -05.1 -08.7 -03.8 +02.0 +12.1 +06.7 +09.0 +06.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 1966 +13.2 +28.9 +21.8 +30.7 +22.5 +14.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon George Edwards (FT, AS) 1901-06 Sydney Falstein (ALP) 1940-49 Hon Chris Watson (Lab, ALP) 1906-10 Daniel Curtin (ALP) 1949-55 Edward Riley (ALP) 1910-31 James Cope (ALP) 1955-69 John Jennings (UAP) 1931-40 --------------------------------------------------------------------