Virtual Tally Room: the official election results
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House of Representatives Updated: 16/09/2010 1:03:25 PM

NSW DIVISION - NEW ENGLAND

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Division Profile
Division Name NEW ENGLAND
State New South Wales
Elected Member Windsor, T (IND) 2001-
Name Derivation Named after the area of New England, the largest highland area in Australia.
First Proclaimed / Election 1900/1901
Area 59344 sq. kms
Demographic Rural
Pre-Election Seat Status Safe
Seat Status Safe
Enrolment 99,616
Turnout 94.88%
Informal 3.54%
Location New England covers an area of approximately 59,344 sq km from the Queensland border in the north to the Gunnedah, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth Regional and Walcha local government areas in the south. The main towns include Armidale, Barraba, Bundarra, Deepwater, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell, Manilla, Quirindi, Tamworth, Tenterfield, Uralla, Walcha, Werris Creek and parts of Delungra and Urbenville.
Products and Industry Cattle, sheep, grain, forestry, dairying, oats, maize, fruit, vegetables, tin-mining, bricks, trout hatchery, tourism, concrete pipe works, leather goods, tannery, gemstones, tobacco, lucerne, honey, grain processing, rubber industry, plaster works and concrete.

Members
Windsor, T (IND) 2001-
St Clair, S (NP) 1998-2001
Sinclair, I (CP/NCP/NP) 1963-1998
Drummond, D H (CP) 1949-1963
Abbott, J P (CP) 1940-1949
Thompson, V C (CP) 1922-1940
Hay, A (NAT & FARMERS/CP/IND) 1919-1922
Abbott, P P (LIB/NAT) 1913-1919
Foster, F J (ALP) 1906-1913
Lonsdale, E (FT) 1903-1906
Sawers, W B S C (PROT) 1901-1903

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