Electoral district of Southern Boroughs (NSW Legislative Council)

{{Short description|Former legislative council electoral district of New South Wales, Australia}}

{{for|the lower house seat (New South Wales Legislative Assembly) created 1856|Electoral district of Southern Boroughs}}

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| name = Southern Boroughs

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The Electoral district of Southern Boroughs was an electorate of the New South Wales Legislative Council at a time when some of its members were elected and the balance were appointed by the Governor. It was a new electorate created in 1851 by the expansion of the Legislative Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected.

{{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=10 September 2014

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

}} The district consisted of the towns of Goulburn, Braidwood, Yass and Queanbeyan, while the surrounding rural area were in the districts of Argyle, Counties of Murray and St Vincent and Counties of King and Georgiana.

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 Southern Boroughs.