Electoral district of Blacktown
Blacktown New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Location within Sydney | |||||||||||||||
State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Created | 1941 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Stephen Bali | ||||||||||||||
Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Blacktown | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 55,952 (2017) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 33.03 km2 (12.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Outer Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Blacktown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The current member is Labor's Stephen Bali, who replaced former Labor leader John Robertson at a by-election in October 2017.
Blacktown is a 33.03 km² urban electorate in Sydney's outer west, taking in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside, Kings Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and parts of Bungarribee, Lalor Park, Quakers Hill and Seven Hills.[1]
History
Blacktown is known as a largely working-class area, and as such, the electorate has tended to strongly support the Labor Party, which has held the seat for all but three years since its inception. It was briefly marginal during the late 1950s, when long-serving member John Freeman was forced into retirement after trying and failing to find a safer seat. Liberal Alfred Dennis won the seat in the 1959 election, but held it for only one term before Labor regained it.
Since then, Labor's hold on the seat has only been seriously threatened once, when Labor suffered a swing of 18.7 percent amid its massive defeat in 2011. It is the only time since the 1950s that Labor has not won an outright majority of the primary vote in the seat.
Members for Blacktown
Member | Party | Period | |
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Frank Hill | Labor | 1941–1945 | |
John Freeman | Labor | 1945–1959 | |
Alfred Dennis | Liberal | 1959–1962 | |
Independent | 1962–1962 | ||
Jim Southee | Labor | 1962–1971 | |
Gordon Barnier | Labor | 1971–1981 | |
John Aquilina | Labor | 1981–1991 | |
Pam Allan | Labor | 1991–1999 | |
Paul Gibson | Labor | 1999–2011 | |
John Robertson | Labor | 2011–2017 | |
Stephen Bali | Labor | 2017–present | |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labor | Stephen Bali | 31,031 | 71.6 | +17.7 | |
Christian Democrats | Josh Green | 6,540 | 15.1 | +9.1 | |
Greens | Chris Winslow | 3,825 | 8.8 | +2.5 | |
Independent | Vivek Singha | 1,966 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
Total formal votes | 43,362 | 95.1 | −0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 2,229 | 4.9 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 45,591 | 81.5 | −7.5 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Stephen Bali | 33,208 | 82.3 | +19.1 | |
Christian Democrats | Josh Green | 7,154 | 17.7 | +17.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labor | John Robertson | 24,916 | 53.9 | +9.5 | |
Liberal | Raman Bhalla | 14,250 | 30.8 | −5.3 | |
Greens | David Bate | 2,937 | 6.3 | +0.8 | |
Christian Democrats | Meena Hanna | 2,750 | 5.9 | +0.2 | |
No Land Tax | Julia Cacciotti | 1,411 | 3.0 | +3.0 | |
Total formal votes | 46,264 | 95.3 | +0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 2,262 | 4.7 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,526 | 89.0 | −2.7 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | John Robertson | 26,679 | 63.2 | +9.0 | |
Liberal | Raman Bhalla | 15,547 | 36.8 | −9.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +9.0 | |||
References
- ↑ "Blacktown". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ↑ "First Preference Votes Report Parliamentary Election: Blacktown". NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ "State Electoral District of Blacktown: Distribution of Preferences". NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ State Electoral District of Blacktown: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
- ↑ State Electoral District of Blacktown: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.
External links
- "Blacktown". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2015.