Strathfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. Since a by-election in 2022, it has been represented by Jason Yat-Sen Li of the Labor Party . It was first created in 1988 and derives its name from the suburb of the same name.
| Strathfield New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1988–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Jason Yat-Sen Li | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Strathfield | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 53,451 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 22.80 km2 (8.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Strathfield is an urban electorate, covering 19 km² in area.
Geography
editOn its current boundaries, Strathfield takes in the suburbs of Belfield, Burwood Heights, Burwood, Croydon, Croydon Park, Enfield, Flemington, Homebush West, Strathfield, Strathfield South and parts of Ashbury, Ashfield, Campsie and Homebush.[1]
History
editStrathfield was created in 1988. While traditionally a marginal electorate, Strathfield tended to favour the Liberal Party in its earlier years. It was first won by Liberal Paul Zammit, who later went on to have a short-lived career as a Liberal member of the federal House of Representatives. Zammit later contested the federal seat as an independent on the issue of airports and air traffic over the area. Zammit was succeeded by Liberal Bruce MacCarthy, who was defeated after one term. His successor, Paul Whelan, was a prominent sitting minister in the Carr government who had shifted to Strathfield from the abolished seat of Ashfield, and subsequently served as Police Minister while the member for Strathfield. The seat has tended to lean towards Labor ever since, with Whelan being succeeded by Virginia Judge. Judge lost the seat in 2011 to Liberal candidate Charles Casuscelli, but he was in turn defeated by Labor's Jodi McKay in 2015.
Members for Strathfield
edit| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Paul Zammit [2] | Liberal | 1988–1996 | |
| Bruce MacCarthy [3] | Liberal | 1996–1999 | |
| Paul Whelan [4] | Labor | 1999–2003 | |
| Virginia Judge [5] | Labor | 2003–2011 | |
| Charles Casuscelli [6] | Liberal | 2011–2015 | |
| Jodi McKay [7] | Labor | 2015–2021 | |
| Jason Yat-Sen Li [8] | Labor | 2022–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Jason Li | 26,249 | 51.9 | +7.1 | |
| Liberal | John-Paul Baladi | 16,775 | 33.1 | −5.4 | |
| Greens | Courtney Buckley | 4,749 | 9.4 | +0.6 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Wally Crocker | 1,588 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
| Animal Justice | Maurie Saidi | 1,257 | 2.5 | +0.5 | |
| Total formal votes | 50,618 | 97.1 | +0.3 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,495 | 2.9 | −0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 52,113 | 88.6 | +0.8 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jason Li | 30,228 | 63.0 | +7.8 | |
| Liberal | John-Paul Baladi | 17,717 | 37.0 | −7.8 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +7.8 | |||
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
References
edit- ^ "Strathfield". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Mr Paul John Zammit (1941– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Bruce Edward MacCarthy (1948- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Paul Francis Patrick Whelan (1943- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Ms Virginia Judge (1956- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Mr Charles Casuscelli RFD (1956- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Ms Jodi Leyanne McKay, MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Labor retains NSW seat of Strathfield". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 12 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ LA First Preference: Strathfield, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Strathfield, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.