Summary
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 New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 1941 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Stephen Bali | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Blacktown | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 55,013 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 33.03 km2 (12.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Blacktown is a 33.03 km2 urban electorate in Sydney's outer west.
History edit
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.
Geography edit
On its current boundaries, Blacktown takes in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside, Kings Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and parts of Bungarribee, Lalor Park, Quakers Hill and Seven Hills.[1]
Members for Blacktown edit
| Member | Party | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Hill [2] | Labor | 1941–1945 | |
| John Freeman [3] | Labor | 1945–1959 | |
| Alfred Dennis [4] | Liberal | 1959–1962 | |
| Independent | 1962 | ||
| Jim Southee [5] | Labor | 1962–1971 | |
| Gordon Barnier [6] | Labor | 1971–1981 | |
| John Aquilina [7] | Labor | 1981–1991 | |
| Pam Allan [8] | Labor | 1991–1999 | |
| Paul Gibson [9] | Labor | 1999–2011 | |
| John Robertson [10] | Labor | 2011–2017 | |
| Stephen Bali [11] | Labor | 2017–present | |
Election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Stephen Bali | 27,128 | 55.6 | +0.9 | |
| Liberal | Allan Green | 11,637 | 23.9 | −2.6 | |
| Legalise Cannabis | Peter Foster | 2,524 | 5.2 | +5.2 | |
| Greens | Leonard Hobbs | 2,521 | 5.2 | −1.1 | |
| Animal Justice | Emma Kerin | 2,357 | 4.8 | +4.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alexander Mishalow | 1,559 | 3.2 | +3.2 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Patrick Murphy | 1,022 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 48,748 | 95.8 | −0.1 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,123 | 4.2 | +0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 50,871 | 86.8 | −2.7 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Stephen Bali | 30,091 | 69.1 | +2.5 | |
| Liberal | Allan Green | 13,442 | 30.9 | −2.5 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +2.5 | |||
References edit
- ^ "Blacktown". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Mr Francis Hill (1883-1945)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr John Stanley Freeman (1894-1970)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Alfred Hugh Dennis (1924- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ "Mr James Bernard Southee (1902-1979)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Gordon Arthur Barnier (1928-2000)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. John Joseph Aquilina (1950- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Pamela Diane Allan (1953- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "Mr Paul Bernard Gibson (1944- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ "Mr John Robertson (1962- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Mr Stephen Bali". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ LA First Preference: Blacktown, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Blacktown, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.