Division of Grayndler

Grayndler Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Grayndler (green) in New South Wales
Created	1949
MP	Anthony Albanese
Party	Labor
Namesake	Edward Grayndler
Electors	104,808 (2013)^[1]
Area	32 km² (12.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Grayndler is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Edward Grayndler (1867–1943), a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1921 to 1934 and 1936 to 1943, and General Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union from 1912 to 1941.

At 32 square kilometres (12 sq mi), it is one of Australia's smallest electorates, located in the inner-southern Sydney metropolitan area, including parts of the inner-west. The electorate includes the suburbs of Annandale, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Canterbury, Enmore, Haberfield, Hurlstone Park, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown, Petersham, Stanmore and Summer Hill.

The current Member for Grayndler, since the 1996 federal election, is Anthony Albanese, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Following the 2013 election, the division is the safest Labor seat in Australia, with a two-party preferred swing of 21 percent required for the Liberals to win it.^[1]

History

The division was originally a solidly working-class area, although migration and gentrification have since radically changed its demography. Despite the demographic changes, it has been held by the Australian Labor Party for its entire existence; the Liberals have only once received 40 percent of the two-party vote. Grayndler also has a very high percentage of Australian Greens voters with 23 percent of the primary vote at the 2013 election. At the 2010 election, the two-party-preferred vote was between Labor and the Greens, one of only 3 in Australia (the others being Batman and the Greens held Melbourne).

Its most prominent members have been Fred Daly, who was a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government, and Leo McLeay, who was Speaker of the House 1989–93. Daly was succeeded by Gough Whitlam's son, Tony Whitlam, who served only one term before the neighbouring Division of Lang was abolished, and lost preselection to that sitting member. According to the ABC, "When Graham Richardson resigned from the Ministry over the Marshall Islands affair before the 1993 election, left-wing power-broker Anthony Albanese organised for Jeannette McHugh to replace him in the Ministry. Being a Minister entitled her to a seat, and as her own seat of Phillip had been abolished, she moved to Grayndler, forcing Leo McLeay to move to the neighbouring seat of Watson. Having delivered the seat to the left, Albanese was rewarded with pre-selection in 1996, winning despite a high profile campaign by No Aircraft Noise," ^[2] and is still the sitting member today.

Members

	Party	Term
Fred Daly	Labor	1949–1975
Tony Whitlam	Labor	1975–1977
Frank Stewart	Labor	1977–1979
Leo McLeay	Labor	1979–1993
Jeannette McHugh	Labor	1993–1996
Anthony Albanese	Labor	1996–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Grayndler

Australian federal election, 2013: Grayndler^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Anthony Albanese	42,009	47.20	+1.11
	Liberal	Cedric Spencer	21,981	24.70	+0.46
	Greens	Hall Greenland	20,498	23.03	−2.87
	Christian Democrats	Joshua Green	1,828	2.05	+2.05
	Palmer United	Mohanadas Balasingham	1,522	1.71	+1.71
	Bullet Train	Joel Scully	1,171	1.32	+1.32
Total formal votes			89,009	93.00	+0.08
Informal votes			6,699	7.00	−0.08
Turnout			95,708	91.32	+0.01
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anthony Albanese	62,613	70.34	−0.29
	Liberal	Cedric Spencer	26,396	29.66	+0.29
	Labor hold		Swing	−0.29

References

1 2 3 "Grayndler, NSW". Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
↑ "Grayndler Electorate Profile". 2004 Federal Election (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 2004.

External links

Division of Grayndler – Australian Electoral Commission

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

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Coordinates: 33°53′49″S 151°08′53″E / 33.897°S 151.148°E / -33.897; 151.148

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