1842 Sydney City Council election

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1842 Sydney City Council election - Wikipedia

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1842 Sydney City Council election

1 November 1842

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Lord Mayor before election

Charles Windeyer

Subsequent Lord Mayor

John Hosking

The 1842 Sydney City Council election was held on 1 November 1842 to elect 24 aldermen for the City of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales.^[1]

This was the first election for Sydney after it was formally established on 20 July 1842. A total of 49 candidates contested the election, with polling open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.^[2]^[3]

Following the election, John Hosking was elected by the aldermen as lord mayor.^[4]

In Brisbane Ward, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that some electors chose not to vote because they had promised their votes to five or six candidates, and upon discovering they could only vote for four, decided not to vote at all.^[5]

Electoral system

The franchise was granted to individuals who occupied and paid rates on a property; however, if they owned property in multiple wards, they could vote in only one. Women were not eligible to vote.^[1]

Six wards—Bourke, Brisbane, Cook, Gipps, Macquarie, and Phillip—were established, each represented by four councillors, covering a total of 3,202 electors.^[1]

One councillor from each ward was required to resign their seat annually, resulting in elections being held every year.^[1]

Results

Bourke

1842 Sydney City Council election: Bourke Ward^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	John Hosking	344
Independent	Foss	305
Independent	George Allen	262
Independent	Owen	241
Independent	Campbell	219
Independent	Welch	95

Brisbane

1842 Sydney City Council election: Brisbane Ward^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Smidmore
	Independent	Holden
	Independent	Poole
	Independent	Gosling
	Independent	Hunt
	Independent	Manning
	Independent	Little
	Independent	Murray
	Independent	Wilson
	Independent	Kellick
Total formal votes			520

Cook

1842 Sydney City Council election: Cook Ward^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Jones (elected)
	Independent	F. Mitchell (elected)
	Independent	H. Hollingshed (elected)
	Independent	W. Pawley (elected)

Gipps

1842 Sydney City Council election: Gipps Ward^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Chapman	320
Independent	Jones	226
Independent	Egan	221
Independent	Peacock	182
Independent	Nicholson	117
Independent	Moore	100
Independent	Ryan	77
Independent	Coyle	58
Independent	Taylor	1
Independent	Gannon	0

Macquarie

1842 Sydney City Council election: Macquarie Ward^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	George Hill	325
Independent	Holt	287
Independent	Henry Macdermott	239
Independent	Thomas Broughton	238
Independent	Bourne	122
Independent	Woolley	105
Independent	Thompson	95
Independent	Wyatt	75

Phillip

1842 Sydney City Council election: Phillip Ward^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Edward Flood	295
Independent	James Robert Wilshire	269
Independent	Neale	222
Independent	Taylor	203
Independent	Blackman	187
Independent	Wallace	115
Independent	Hayes	69
Independent	Grose	33

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Golder, Hilary. "A short electoral history of the Sydney City Council" (PDF). City of Sydney. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2024.
^ "City of Sydney - Election of Councillors". Sydney Morning Herald.
^ "Election of Aldermen and Mayor". The Australian.
^ "Election of Mayor and Aldermen". The Teetotaller and General Newspaper.
^ "The Election". Australasian Chronicle. 3 November 1842. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Election". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 November 1842.

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