Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is currently held by Justin Clancy of the Liberal Party.
| Albury New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries since the 2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1880–1920 1927–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Justin Clancy | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Albury, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 59,834 (2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 16,286.87 km2 (6,288.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Provincial and rural | ||||||||||||||
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Albury is a regional electorate in the state's south. It encompasses the local government areas of the City of Albury, Greater Hume Shire, Federation Council, part of Snowy Valleys Council that includes the town of Cabramurra. Its significant population centres include Albury, Culcairn, Jindera, Corowa, Howlong, Holbrook and Tumbarumba.[1]
History
editAlbury was first created in 1880 from part of Hume and is named after the city of Albury. In 1920, Albury, Wagga Wagga and Corowa were absorbed into Murray, and four members were elected under proportional representation. At the end of proportional representation in 1927, Albury was recreated.
Albury has generally been considered as a heartland seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors. While Labor has occasionally managed to break the conservative hold on the seat, these have typically occurred only at the peak of a popular government.[2] For instance, former Albury mayor Harold Mair won the seat for Labor in 1978 and held it for a decade–only the second Labor member ever to win it in its present incarnation, and the only one to hold it for more than one term. However, Mair's name recognition in the area was not enough to keep him from being swept out in the landslide Labor defeat of 1988. Liberal Ian Glachan, who had been Mair's opponent in 1984, actually turned Albury into a safe seat in one stroke.
Since then, Labor has never come close to retaking the seat. Labor candidates are usually fortunate to get much more than 30 percent of the primary vote. The Liberal hold on the seat has only been seriously threatened once since then. In 1999, Glachan suffered a 16-point swing and bested independent Claire Douglas by only 687 votes. At that election, Labor was pushed into third place. However, Glachan would have easily retained the seat with a 15 percent majority in a "traditional" two-party contest with Labor. The seat reverted to form in 2003 upon Glachan's retirement. His successor, Greg Aplin, won 61.5 percent of the two-party vote, and Labor was pushed to fourth place on the primary vote behind Aplin and two independents. Aplin held the seat without serious difficulty until 2019, when he was succeeded by fellow Liberal Justin Clancy.
Members
edit| First incarnation (1880–1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| George Day [3] | None | 1880–1887 | |
| Protectionist | 18871889 | ||
| John Wilkinson [4] | Protectionist | 1889–1895 | |
| Richard Ball [5] | Free Trade | 1895–1898 | |
| Thomas Griffith [6] | Protectionist | 1898–1901 | |
| Independent | 1901–1904 | ||
| Gordon McLaurin [7] | Progressive | 1904–1907 | |
| Independent | 1907–1913 | ||
| John Cusack [8] | Labor | 1913–1917 | |
| Independent Labor | 1917–1917 | ||
| Arthur Manning [9] | Nationalist | 1917–1920 | |
| Second incarnation (1927—present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Ross [10] | Nationalist | 1927–1930 | |
| Independent | 1930–1930 | ||
| Joseph Fitzgerald [11] | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
| Alexander Mair [12] | United Australia | 1932–1943 | |
| Democratic | 1943–1945 | ||
| Liberal | 1945–1946 | ||
| John Hurley [13] | Labor | 1946–1947 | |
| Doug Padman [14] | Liberal | 1947–1965 | |
| Gordon Mackie [15] | Liberal | 1965–1978 | |
| Harold Mair [16] | Labor | 1978–1988 | |
| Ian Glachan [17] | Liberal | 1988–2003 | |
| Greg Aplin [18] | Liberal | 2003–2019 | |
| Justin Clancy [19] | Liberal | 2019–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Justin Clancy | 26,368 | 53.0 | −3.7 | |
| Labor | Marcus Rowland | 11,081 | 22.3 | −2.6 | |
| Greens | Eli Davern | 4,672 | 9.4 | +0.0 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Peter Sinclair | 4,009 | 8.1 | +8.1 | |
| Animal Justice | Asanki Fernando | 1,263 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Geoffrey Robertson | 1,224 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Ross Hamilton | 1,171 | 2.4 | −4.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 49,788 | 96.5 | +1.3 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,795 | 3.5 | −1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 51,583 | 86.2 | −0.1 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Justin Clancy | 28,811 | 66.3 | +0.5 | |
| Labor | Marcus Rowland | 14,626 | 33.7 | −0.5 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
References
edit- ^ "Albury". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony (March 2011). 2011 NSW Election Preview – Analysis of Past Voting Patterns by Electorate: Background Paper No 1/2011. Sydney: New South Wales Parliamentary Library. p. 6. ISBN 978 0 7313 1875 9. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Mr George Day (1826-1906)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr John Wilkinson (1853- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Richard Thomas Ball (1857–1937)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Thomas Hunter Griffith (1842–1913)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Mr Gordon Ranald McLaurin (1862–1917)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr John Joseph Cusack (1868–1956)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "Mr Arthur Gibson Manning (1872-1947)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr John Ross (1891-1973)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ "Mr Joseph John Fitzgerald (1883–1973)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Alexander Mair (1889-1969)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Cornelius John Hurley". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Dudley Gordon Padman (1885-1970)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Gordon Charlton Mackie (1912-1990)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Harold David Mair (1919– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Ian Doric Glachan (1934–2005)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ "Mr Gregory John Aplin BA(Hons) (1952–)". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "Mr Justin Clancy". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ LA First Preference: Albury, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Albury, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.