Sitting Legislative Councillor for County of Argyle was Charles Nicholson who did not contest the election.
Unlike other newly appointed Ministers, he did not have to resign and contest a ministerial by-election as he already held the office of Solicitor-General at the time of his election.
Sitting Legislative Councillor for Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie was Phillip Parker King who did not contest the election.
James Chisholm, the member of the Legislative Council for Counties of King and Georgiana, did not contest the election.
Macleay had represented Pastoral Districts of Lachlan and Lower Darling in the old Legislative Council.
Morris had represented Pastoral Districts of Liverpool Plains and Gwydir in the old Legislative Council.
Sitting Legislative Councillor for Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa was Richard Joseph Smith who did not contest the election.
Rusden had represented Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay in the old Legislative Council.
Both Bowman and Douglass had represented Counties of Northumberland and Hunter in the old Legislative Council.
William Dumaresq, the sitting Legislative Councillor for Counties of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh, did not contest the election.
Sitting Legislative Councillor for Counties of Murray and St Vincent, Daniel Cooper contested Sydney Hamlets.
Sitting Legislative Councillor for County of Stanley was John Dunmore Lang who did not contest the election.
Cowper, Parkes, Campbell and Wilshire had been endorsed as a group by a public meeting to be elected to the four vacancies.
There were no political parties at the time and the combination of candidates, pejoratively referred to by Plunkett as "The Bunch", was controversial.
[36] After his defeat in this seat, Plunkett unsuccessfully contested North Eastern Boroughs, before being elected for both Argyle and Bathurst (County).
Sitting Legislative Councillor for Counties of Murray and St Vincent, Daniel Cooper contested Sydney Hamlets.
Sitting Legislative Councillor for this district Charles Wray Finch did not contest the election.