Division of Greenway

Greenway Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Greenway (green) in New South Wales
Created	1984
MP	Michelle Rowland
Party	Australia Labor Party
Namesake	Francis Greenway
Electors	101,842 (2013)^[1]
Area	84 km² (32.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Greenway is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1984 and is named for Francis Greenway, an ex-convict who became a prominent architect in colonial Sydney.

The division is located in the west and north-west suburbs of Sydney, traditionally been north and east portions of the Blacktown district. It currently also includes small portions of Holroyd and Parramatta Council areas. Suburbs and towns include Acacia Gardens, Girraween, Glenwood, Kellyville Ridge, Kings Langley, Kings Park, Lalor Park, Parklea, Seven Hills, Stanhope Gardens, The Ponds, Toongabbie and parts of Blacktown, Pendle Hill, Prospect, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Rouse Hill, Schofields and Vineyard.

The current Member for Greenway, since the 2010 federal election, is Michelle Rowland, a member of the Australian Labor Party.

History

For most of its history, Greenway was a safe seat for Labor. However, demographic changes in the areas north of Blacktown, specifically Kellyville Ridge, Stanhope Gardens and Glenwood, resulted in a shift away from Labor at the 2001 election. At the 2004 election this trend continued and the seat was won by the Liberal Party following the retirement of the sitting member, Frank Mossfield and an extensive Liberal campaign. Louise Markus, a Pentecostal social worker and member of Hillsong Church, defeated Ed Husic, a former political advisor and a non-practicing Muslim, to take the seat by a small margin of 0.6%. A large informal vote of 11.83%, the highest in the 2004 election, contributed to the closeness of this result, the vast majority indicating a first preference for Louise Markus.

A redistribution of the seat ahead of the 2007 federal election resulted in the Hawkesbury area towns moving to Greenway from the Division of Macquarie, and the loss of traditional Labor-voting areas such as Blacktown, Dean Park, Lalor Park and Seven Hills as well as the Liberal-leaning areas of Kings Langley and Seven Hills North. This boosted the notional Liberal majority to 11.7%, making it on paper a safe Liberal seat. However, at the 2007 federal election, Markus suffered a 6.9% swing towards Labor that turned Greenway into a marginal Liberal seat.

The seat was redistributed again in 2009, causing a large change in its demographics. Under redistribution, most of the Hawkesbury region, including Richmond and Windsor, were shifted back to Greenway. In return, it regained the Labor voting suburbs of Blacktown, Toongabbie, Seven Hills and Pendle Hill.^[2] Following the redistribution, the seat was notionally Labor held on a margin of 5%.^[3]

The division is a demographically diverse population that includes the working class suburbs of Blacktown, Lalor Park and Toongabbie which are Labor leaning, as well as the high income, Liberal leaning suburbs of Kellyville Ridge, Stanhope Gardens, Glenwood, The Ponds and Kings Langley.

Members

	Party	Term
Russ Gorman	Labor	1984–1996
Frank Mossfield	Labor	1996–2004
Louise Markus	Liberal	2004–2010
Michelle Rowland	Labor	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Greenway

Australian federal election, 2013: Greenway^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Michelle Rowland	38,319	44.48	+2.16
	Liberal	Jaymes Diaz	34,488	40.04	−1.30
	Palmer United	Jodie Wootton	3,483	4.04	+4.04
	Christian Democrats	Allan Green	3,253	3.78	+0.10
	Greens	Chris Brentin	3,175	3.69	−2.32
	Sex Party	Tom Lillicrap	1,516	1.76	+1.76
	Rise Up Australia	Maree Nichols	681	0.79	+0.79
	Katter's Australian	Anthony Belcastro	681	0.79	+0.79
	Australian Voice	Jamie Cavanough	545	0.63	+0.63
Total formal votes			86,141	90.02	+0.29
Informal votes			9,549	9.98	−0.29
Turnout			95,690	93.96	−0.23
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Michelle Rowland	45,639	52.98	+2.10
	Liberal	Jaymes Diaz	40,502	47.02	−2.10
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.10

References

1 2 "Greenway, NSW". Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
↑ "Greenway: Proposed boundaries" (PDF map). NSW redistribution. Australian Electoral Commission. 2009.
↑ http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2009/08/federal-redistribution-nsw-draft-electoral-boundaries.html#more

External links

Division of Greenway - Australian Electoral Commission

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

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Coordinates: 33°43′59″S 150°54′47″E / 33.733°S 150.913°E / -33.733; 150.913

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