Electoral district of Cumberland

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Cumberland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in outer western Sydney named after Cumberland County. It was created as a three-member electorate with the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, replacing Camden and Hawkesbury. It was abolished in 1927 and replaced by Hawkesbury, Nepean, and parts of Bankstown, Lakemba and Hornsby.^[1]

[edit] Members for Cumberland

Cumberland: three-member constituency (1920—1927)
Member	Party	Term
Voltaire Molesworth	Australian Labor Party	1920-1927
James McGirr	Australian Labor Party	1925-1927
Robert Walker	Nationalist Party of Australia	1920-1927
Ernest Carr	Nationalist Party of Australia	1920-1922
William Robert Fitzsimons	Nationalist Party of Australia	1922-1926
James Shand	Nationalist Party of Australia	1926-1927

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