Canterbury, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales has had two incarnations, from 1859 to 1920 and 1927 to the present.
Canterbury lost part of the district to Camden and Granville.
Varney Parkes (Free Trade) had won the seat at the 1898 election, however he resigned and Thomas Taylor (Independent) won the seat at the July 1900 by-election.
[58][59] Joseph Mitchell had previously been defeated as a sitting member for Newtown.
The other sitting member Sir Henry Parkes successfully contested East Sydney.