List of senators from New South Wales

New South Wales
Australian Senate
New South Wales; Australian Senate
Created	1901
Party	Coalition (6); Labor (4); Greens (2); ;

This is a list of senators from the state of New South Wales since Australian Federation in 1901.

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Senate	Election	Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)
1901–1903	1901		Albert Gould (Free Trade/ Liberal/ Nationalist) ^[1]		Edward Millen (Free Trade/ Liberal/ Nationalist) ^[2]		Edward Pulsford (Free Trade/ Liberal) ^[3]		James Walker (Free Trade/ Liberal) ^[4]		John Neild (Free Trade/ Liberal) ^[5]		Richard O'Connor (Protectionist) ^[6]	6 senators per state 1901-1950
1901–1903	1903	Dr Charles Mackellar (Protectionist) ^[7]
1904–1906	1903			John Gray (Free Trade/ Liberal) ^[8]
1907–1910	1906
1907–1910	1909
1910–1913	1910			Arthur Rae (Labor) ^[9]			Albert Gardiner (Labor) ^[10]			Allan McDougall (Labor) ^[11]
1913–1914	1913	Charles Oakes (Liberal) ^[12]		Arthur Rae (Labor) ^[9]
1914–1917	1914	David Watson (Labor) ^[13]				John Grant (Labor) ^[14]
1914–1917	1917	David Watson (Labor) ^[13]
1917–1920	1917	Herbert Pratten (Nationalist) ^[15]		Josiah Thomas (Nationalist) ^[16]
1920–1923	1919	Herbert Pratten (Nationalist) ^[15]				Charles Cox (Nationalist/ UAP) ^[17]			Walter Duncan (Nationalist/ Independent/ Australian/ UAP) ^[18]
	1921	Henry Garling (Nationalist) ^[19]
	1922		Allan McDougall (Labor) ^[11]
1923–1926	1922			John Grant (Labor) ^[14]
	1923	Walter Massy-Greene (Nationalist) ^[20]
	1924		Jack Power (Labor) ^[21]
	April 1925		William Gibbs (Labor) ^[22]
	Nov 1925		Josiah Thomas (Nationalist) ^[16]					Percy Abbott (Country) ^[23]
1926–1929	1925				Walter Massy-Greene (Nationalist/ UAP) ^[20]
	June 1928			Albert Gardiner (Progressive Labor) ^[10]
	Nov 1928			John Dooley (Labor) ^[24]
1929–1932	1928		Arthur Rae (Labor/ Lang Labor) ^[9]					James Dunn (Labor/ Lang Labor) ^[25]
	Aug 1929
	Dec 1929
	1931a
	1931b						Patrick Mooney (Lang Labor) ^[26]
1932–1935	1931						Charles Hardy (Country) ^[27]
1935–1938	1934		Mac Abbott (Country) ^[28]					Dick Dein (UAP) ^[29]		Lionel Courtenay (UAP) ^[30]
	1935	Guy Arkins (UAP) ^[31]
	1937			Bill Ashley (Labor) ^[32]
1938–1941	1937				Stan Amour (Labor /Labor (Non-Communist) /Labor ^[33]		John Armstrong (Labor) ^[34]			Tom Arthur (Labor) ^[35]
	1940
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1941–1944	1940		William Large (Labor) ^[36]					James Arnold (Labor) ^[37]
1944–1947	1943	Donald Grant (Labor) ^[38]
1947–1950	1946
1947–1950	1950								Albert Reid (Country) ^[39]		Bill Spooner (Liberal) ^[40]		John McCallum (Liberal) ^[41]		John Tate (Liberal) ^[42]	10 senators per state 1950-1984
1950–1951	1949
1951–1953	1951					Alister McMullin (Liberal) ^[43]
1953–1956	1953		Ken Anderson (Liberal) ^[44]
1956–1959	1955
	July 1958			James Ormonde (Labor) ^[45]
	Nov 1958									Colin McKellar (Country) ^[46]
1959–1962	1958	James Ormonde (Labor) ^[45]
1962–1965	1961			Doug McClelland (Labor) ^[47]					Joe Fitzgerald (Labor) ^[48]				Lionel Murphy (Labor) ^[49]
1965–1968	1964				Tony Mulvihill (Labor) ^[50]			Tom Bull (Country) ^[51]
1965–1968	1965						Bob Cotton (Liberal) ^[52]
1968–1971	1967
	Aug 1970									Douglas Scott (Country) ^[53]
	Nov 1970										Jack Kane (DLP) ^[54]
	1971	Jim McClelland (Labor) ^[55]
1971–1974	1970					John Carrick (Liberal) ^[56]				Arthur Gietzelt (Labor) ^[57]
1974–1975	1974								Douglas Scott (Country) ^[53]			Peter Baume (Liberal) ^[58]
1974–1975	1975										Cleaver Bunton (Independent) ^[59]
1975–1978	1975							Kerry Sibraa (Labor) ^[60]			Misha Lajovic (Liberal) ^[61]
1978–1981	1977							Colin Mason (Democrat) ^[62]
1978–1981	1978	Kerry Sibraa (Labor) ^[60]	Chris Puplick (Liberal) ^[63]
1981–1983	1980						Bruce Childs (Labor) ^[64]
1983–1985	1983		Graham Richardson (Labor) ^[65]
1983–1985	1984												David Brownhill (National) ^[66]		Chris Puplick (Liberal) ^[63]
1985–1987	1984								John Morris (Labor) ^[67]		Michael Baume (Liberal) ^[68]
1985–1987	1987			Sue West (Labor) ^[69]
1987–1990	1987			Bronwyn Bishop (Liberal) ^[70]		Robert Wood (NDP) ^[71]		Paul McLean (Democrat) ^[72]
	1988					Irina Dunn (Independent) ^[73]
	1989				John Faulkner (Labor) ^[74]	Irina Dunn (Independent) ^[73]
1990–1993	1990					Sue West (Labor) ^[69]				Stephen Loosley (Labor) ^[75]					Vicki Bourne (Democrat) ^[76]
1990–1993	1991							John Tierney (Liberal) ^[77]	Karin Sowada (Democrat) ^[78]
1993–1996	1993											Sandy Macdonald (National) ^[79]
	1994	Bob Woods (Liberal) ^[80]	Michael Forshaw (Labor) ^[81]	Belinda Neal (Labor) ^[82]
	1995								Tom Wheelwright (Labor) ^[83]
1996–1999	1996									Helen Coonan (Liberal) ^[84]
	1996								Bill Heffernan (Liberal) ^[85]
	1997	Marise Payne (Liberal) ^[86]					George Campbell (Labor) ^[87]
	1998			Steve Hutchins (Labor) ^[88]
1999–2002	1998											Aden Ridgeway (Democrat) ^[89]
1999–2002	2000										Sandy Macdonald (National) ^[79]
2002–2005	2001					Ursula Stephens (Labor) ^[90]								Kerry Nettle (Greens) ^[91]
2002–2005	2005							Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Liberal) ^[92]
2005–2008	2004												Fiona Nash (National) ^[93]
2008–2011	2007						Doug Cameron (Labor) ^[94]				John Williams (National) ^[95]			Mark Arbib (Labor) ^[96]
2011–2014	2010		Matt Thistlethwaite (Labor) ^[97]									Lee Rhiannon (Greens) ^[98]
	2011			Arthur Sinodinos (Liberal) ^[99]
	2012									Bob Carr (Labor) ^[100]
	2013		Sam Dastyari (Labor) ^[101]							Deborah O'Neill (Labor) ^[102]
2014–2016	2013													David Leyonhjelm (Liberal Democrats) ^[103]
2014–2016	2015				Jenny McAllister (Labor) ^[104]
2016–2019	2016								Brian Burston (One Nation /UAP) ^[105]
	2017												Jim Molan (Liberal) ^[106]
	2018		Kristina Keneally (Labor) ^[107]			Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) ^[108]
	2019											Duncan Spender (Liberal Democrats)
2019–2022	2019								Tim Ayres (Labor) ^[109]		Tony Sheldon (Labor) ^[110]	Andrew Bragg (Liberal) ^[111]		Hollie Hughes (Liberal) ^[112]	Perin Davey (National) ^[113]
2019–2022	2019			Jim Molan (Liberal) ^[106]
2022–2025	2022			Jim Molan (Liberal) ^[106]			David Shoebridge (Greens) ^[114]						Ross Cadell (National) ^[115]
	2023	Dave Sharma (Liberal) ^[116]	Maria Kovacic (Liberal) ^[117]

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Created	1901
Party	Coalition (6)^[a] Labor (4) Greens (2)