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Bathurst New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1859–present
MP	Paul Toole
Party	National
Namesake	Bathurst, New South Wales
Electors	59,476 (2023)
Area	14,992.77 km (5,788.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial and rural
Electorates around Bathurst: Dubbo Upper Hunter Upper Hunter Orange Bathurst Hawkesbury Blue Mountains Cootamundra Goulburn Wollondilly

Bathurst is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Paul Toole of the Nationals.

Bathurst is a regional electorate that encompasses the entirety of the local government areas of Bathurst Region, the City of Lithgow, Blayney Shire, Oberon Shire plus the southern part of Mid-Western Regional Council (including Rylstone, Kandos and Ilford).

History

Bathurst was created in 1859, partly replacing Western Boroughs. Between 1920 and 1927, it absorbed parts of Hartley and Orange and elected three members under proportional representation. In 1927 Bathurst, Hartley and Orange were recreated as single-member electorates. It was held by the Labor party for 20 years until the Coalition's landslide win in 2011, where the Nationals candidate Paul Toole recorded a swing of 36.7%, the largest in state history. Of particular note was the suburb of Eglinton, where labour support plummeted from 854 of 1,690 (50.5%) to 180 of 1,690 (10.7%) first preference votes; a precipitous decline of 79%. This trend was somewhat reversed in 2015, with Toole being re-elected by a margin of around 15,000 votes, a majority of almost two-thirds of the vote, but still down from the approximate 20,000 margin from 2011.

Members for Bathurst

Election results

References

1. "Bathurst". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
4. Stevenson, Andrew (29 March 2011). "Bathurst resident's historic swing his alone". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
5. "Mr John Findlater Clements (1819-1884)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
6. "Mr James Hart (1825–1873)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
7. "Mr James Ruthven Kemp (1833-1873)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
8. "Mr William Henry Suttor (Senior) (1805–1877)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
9. "Mr Edward Combes C.M.G. (1830–1895)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
10. ^ "Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor (1839-1915)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
11. "Dr William Richard Cortis (1847-1909)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
12. "Mr William Henry Paul (1846-1947)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
13. "The Hon. Sydney Smith (1856–1934)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
14. "Mr William White Young (1852-1915)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
15. "Mr John Miller (1870-1934)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
16. "Mr Ernest Durack (1882–1967)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
17. ^ "Mr Valentine Carlysle Ross Wood Johnston (1880–1957)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
18. "Mr James Thomas Dooley (1877-1950)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
19. "The Hon. John Charles Lucas Fitzpatrick (1862–1932)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
20. "Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, KCB, CMG, DSO, VD (1875-1954)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
21. ^ "The Hon. Christopher Augustus Kelly (1890–1967)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
22. "Mr Gordon Wilkins(1885–1938)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
23. "Mr Clive Geoffrey Osborne (1923-1998)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
24. ^ "Mr (Mick) Ralph James Clough (1927-2008)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
25. "Mr David John Berry (1951- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
26. "Mr Gerard Francis Martin (1946- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
27. "The Hon. Paul Lawrence Toole MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
28. LA First Preference: Bathurst, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
29. LA Two Candidate Preferred: Bathurst, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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• Constituencies established in 1859