Electoral district of Northumberland Boroughs (NSW Legislative Council)

{{short description|Former New South Wales Legislative Council electoral district}}

{{for|the NSW Legislative Assembly electorate|Electoral district of Northumberland Boroughs}}

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The Electoral district of Northumberland Boroughs was an electorate of the partially elected New South Wales Legislative Council, created for the first elections for the Council in 1843. From 1843 until 1851 the electorate covered the major towns or boroughs of Northumberland County, East Maitland, West Maitland and Newcastle,

{{cite act

|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/ea1843n1130.pdf

|title=An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council.

|date=23 February 1843

|number=16 |accessdate=27 May 2019

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

}}

and polling took place at East Maitland, West Maitland and Newcastle.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12906295 |title=Polling places |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=14 July 1848 |accessdate=28 May 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove}} Morpeth was added to the electorate from 1851 while Newcastle was removed from the electorate to form, with Raymond Terrace, the North Eastern Boroughs.{{cite act

|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/teao1851n4179.pdf

|title=An Act to provide for the division of the Colony of New South Wales after the separation of the District of Port Phillip therefrom into Electoral Districts and for the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Council.

|date=2 May 1851

|number=48

|accessdate=27 May 2019

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

}}

The rest of Northumberland County was covered by the County of Northumberland from 1843 until 1951,

and Counties of Northumberland and Hunter from 1851 until 1856.

In 1856 the unicameral Legislative Council was abolished and replaced with an elected Legislative Assembly and an appointed Legislative Council. The district was represented by the Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland Boroughs.