The Electoral district of Town of Parramatta was an electorate of the partially elected

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, created for the first elections for the Council in 1843, at the time the principal residence of the

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Sir Charles FitzRoy. Polling took place at Parramatta. In 1856, the

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Legislative Council was abolished and replaced with an elected Legislative Assembly and an appointed Legislative Council. The district was represented by the Legislative Assembly

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, the only electorate to have existed continuously since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856.

Members

:George Oakes went on to be one of two representatives for Parramatta in the new Legislative Assembly in 1856.

Election results

1843

1848

1851

References