| Parramatta New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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) Location within Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1856–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Geoff Lee | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Parramatta | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 57,023 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 36 km2 (13.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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Parramatta is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is currently held by Geoff Lee of the Liberal Party.
Parramatta is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner north-west, roughly analogous to the City of Parramatta, taking in the suburbs of Camellia, Carlingford, Dundas, Dundas Valley, Ermington, Granville, Harris Park, Melrose Park, North Parramatta, North Rocks, Oatlands, Parramatta, Rosehill, Rydalmere, Telopea and Westmead.[1]
History
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Parramatta is the only electorate to have existed continuously since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856. It elected two members simultaneously from 1856 to 1880. In 1920, it absorbed Granville and elected three members under proportional representation. In 1927, it was divided into the single-member electorates of Parramatta, Granville and Auburn.
For most of its single member history since 1927 and prior to 2011 Parramatta was a safe Labor Party seat. Prior to 2011 it was last held by the Liberals by John Books from 1988 to 1991. The Liberal Party had hopes of winning back the seat at the 1994 by-election when it was a marginal ALP seat but the ALP retained the seat with a huge swing towards it.
Labor went into the 2011 election holding the seat with a margin of 13.1 percent, but Liberal challenger Geoff Lee won it on a swing of 25.8 percent, turning it into a safe Liberal seat in one stroke. He was reelected in 2015, the first time in over 80 years that the Liberals (or their predecessors) have been reelected in the seat's single member incarnation.
Members for Parramatta
| Two members (1856—1880) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Henry Parker | None | 1856–1857 | George Oakes | None | 1856–1860 | ||
| James Byrnes | None | 1858–1861 | |||||
| John Lackey | None | 1860–1864 | |||||
| Arthur Holroyd | None | 1861–1864 | |||||
| James Byrnes | None | 1864–1872 | James Farnell | None | 1864–1874 | ||
| Hugh Taylor | None | 1872–1880 | |||||
| Charles Byrnes | None | 1874–1877 | |||||
| William Long | None | 1877–1880 | |||||
| Single-member (1880—1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Charles Byrnes | None | 1880–1882 | |
| Hugh Taylor | None | 1882–1887 | |
| Free Trade | 1887–1894 | ||
| Dowell O'Reilly | Ind. Free Trade | 1894–1895 | |
| Free Trade | 1895–1898 | ||
| William Ferris | Protectionist | 1898–1901 | |
| Tom Moxham | Liberal Reform | 1901–1916 | |
| Albert Bruntnell | Liberal Reform | 1916–1917 | |
| Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
| Three members (1920—1927) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| Albert Bruntnell | Nationalist | 1920–1927 | Bill Ely | Labor | 1920–1922 | Jack Lang | Labor | 1920–1927 | |||
| Thomas Morrow | Nationalist | 1922–1925 | |||||||||
| Bill Ely | Labor | 1925–1927 | |||||||||
| Single-member (1927—present) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Albert Bruntnell | Nationalist | 1927–1929 | |
| Herbert Lloyd | Nationalist | 1929–1930 | |
| Joseph Byrne | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
| George Gollan | United Australia | 1932–1945 | |
| Liberal | 1945–1953 | ||
| Kevin Morgan | Labor | 1953–1956 | |
| Jim Clough | Liberal | 1956–1959 | |
| Dan Mahoney | Labor | 1959–1976 | |
| Barry Wilde | Labor | 1976–1988 | |
| John Books | Liberal | 1988–1991 | |
| Andrew Ziolkowski | Labor | 1991–1994 | |
| Gabrielle Harrison | Labor | 1994–2003 | |
| Tanya Gadiel | Labor | 2003–2011 | |
| Geoff Lee | Liberal | 2011–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Geoff Lee | 26,322 | 54.02 | +0.18 | |
| Labor | Liz Scully | 14,736 | 30.24 | +1.49 | |
| Greens | Phil Bradley | 3,637 | 7.46 | −0.92 | |
| Independent | Michelle Garrard | 1,955 | 4.01 | +0.81 | |
| Keep Sydney Open | Samuel Bellwood | 1,023 | 2.10 | +2.10 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Jasmina Moltter | 701 | 1.44 | +1.44 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Susan Price | 354 | 0.73 | +0.73 | |
| Total formal votes | 48,728 | 96.78 | +0.46 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,621 | 3.22 | −0.46 | ||
| Turnout | 50,349 | 88.30 | −1.03 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Geoff Lee | 27,330 | 60.65 | −2.21 | |
| Labor | Liz Scully | 17,733 | 39.35 | +2.21 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | −2.21 | |||
References
- ^ "Parramatta". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Parramatta: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ "Parramatta: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.