Division of Chifley

Chifley Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Chifley in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1969
MP	Ed Husic
Party	Labor
Namesake	Ben Chifley
Electors	103,908 (2016)
Area	126 km² (48.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

Four of the candidates who stood for election for the Division of Chifley at the 2007 Federal election address electors at a public meeting in Shalvey on 11 November 2007. They are (seated at rear) Roger Price (ALP), Dave Vincent (CDP), James Cogan (Socialist) and (standing) John Forrester (Greens)

The Division of Chifley is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1969 and is named for Ben Chifley, who was Prime Minister of Australia 1945–49.

The division is located in the western suburbs of Sydney. On its original boundaries it was based on Blacktown, but now includes the suburbs of Bidwill, Blackett, Bungarribee, Colebee, Dean Park, Dharruk, Doonside, Emerton, Glendenning, Hassall Grove, Hebersham, Lethbridge Park, Marayong, Marsden Park, Mount Druitt, Oakhurst, Plumpton, Rooty Hill, Ropes Crossing, Shalvey, Shanes Park, Tregear, Whalan, Willmot, and Woodcroft; as well as parts of Arndell Park, Blacktown, Eastern Creek, Huntingwood, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, and Schofields.

The Member for Chifley, since the 2010 federal election, is Ed Husic, a member of the Australian Labor Party.

Chifley has been won by the Labor Party at every federal election since its creation in 1969, and at the 2007 federal election was one of Labor's safest seats.^[1]

Members

	Party	Term
John Armitage	Labor	1969–1983
Russ Gorman	Labor	1983–1984
Roger Price	Labor	1984–2010
Ed Husic	Labor	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Chifley

Australian federal election, 2016: Chifley^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Ed Husic	52,278	61.09	+8.39
	Liberal	Mohit Kumar	19,394	22.66	−9.16
	Christian Democrats	Joshua Green	7,820	9.14	+5.68
	Greens	Eliza James	3,883	4.54	+1.88
	Independent	Ammar Khan	2,194	2.56	+0.44
Total formal votes			85,569	91.66	+4.95
Informal votes			7,785	8.34	−4.95
Turnout			93,354	89.84	+0.12
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ed Husic	59,202	69.19	+8.26
	Liberal	Mohit Kumar	26,367	30.81	−8.26
	Labor hold		Swing	+8.26

References

↑ "House of Representatives: Two party preferred by division". Election 2007. Australian Electoral Commission. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
↑ Chifley, NSW, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Chifley - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales

Banks Barton Bennelong Berowra Blaxland Bradfield Calare Chifley Cook Cowper Cunningham Dobell Eden-Monaro Farrer Fowler Gilmore Grayndler Greenway Hughes Hume Hunter Kingsford Smith Lindsay Lyne Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie McMahon Mitchell New England Newcastle North Sydney Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Shortland Sydney Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Whitlam Abolished: Barrier Bland Canobolas Charlton Cook (1906–55) Dalley Darling Dundas East Sydney Evans Gwydir Illawarra Lang Lawson Lowe Martin Nepean Parkes (1901–69) Phillip Prospect Riverina-Darling St George South Sydney Throsby Watson (1934–69) West Sydney

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Coordinates: 33°44′06″S 150°50′17″E / 33.735°S 150.838°E / -33.735; 150.838

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.