Electoral district of Counties of Murray and St Vincent

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Counties of Murray and St Vincent New South Wales—Legislative Council
State	New South Wales
Created	1851
Abolished	1856
Namesake	Murray County & St Vincent County
Coordinates	32°55′S 151°45′E / 32.917°S 151.750°E / -32.917; 151.750

The Electoral district of Counties of Murray and St Vincent 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.^[1] The district consisted of the rural areas of Murray County, which had previously been part of Counties of Murray, King and Georgiana, and St Vincent County, which had previously been part of Counties of St Vincent and Auckland. The towns of Braidwood and Queanbeyan were not part of the district, being included in Southern Boroughs.^[1]

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 United Counties of Murray and St Vincent.

Members

Member	Term
Alick Osborne ^[2]	Sep 1851 – Feb 1855
Daniel Cooper ^[3]	Mar 1855 – Feb 1856

Alick Osborne resigned in February 1855.

v t e Former electoral districts of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Elections	1843 (results) 1848 (results) 1851 (results) by-elections
Members	1843–1851 1851–1856
Towns	Cumberland Boroughs North Eastern Boroughs Northumberland Boroughs Town of Parramatta Southern Boroughs City of Sydney Sydney Hamlets
Counties	Argyle Bathurst Camden Cook and Westmoreland Cumberland Durham Gloucester and Macquarie Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley Hunter, Brisbane and Bligh King and Georgiana Murray and St Vincent Murray, King and Georgiana Northumberland Northumberland and Hunter Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh Roxburgh and Wellington Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington St Vincent and Auckland Western Boroughs
Pastoral districts	Clarence and Darling Downs Lachlan and Lower Darling Liverpool Plains and Gwydir Maneroo Murrumbidgee New England and Macleay Wellington and Bligh
Victoria	Town of Melbourne Port Phillip
Queensland	Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa County of Stanley Stanley Boroughs

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