Electoral district of Auburn

This article is about the New South Wales state electorate. For the former Queensland state electorate, see Electoral district of Auburn (Queensland).
Auburn
New South WalesLegislative Assembly

Location within Sydney
State New South Wales
Created 1927
MP Luke Foley
Party Australian Labor Party
Namesake Auburn, New South Wales
Electors 53,262 (2015)
Area 39 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Demographic Inner Metropolitan

Auburn is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. It is currently represented by Luke Foley, the leader of the Australian Labor Party.

Auburn includes the suburbs of Auburn, Berala, Homebush Bay, Lidcombe, Newington, Rookwood, Silverwater, South Granville, Sydney Olympic Park, Wentworth Point and parts of Chester Hill, Guildford, Merrylands and Regents Park.[1]

History

Auburn was created in 1927. It has historically been one of the safest Labor seats in New South Wales and is considered a part of Labor's heartland in Western Sydney.[2][3]

Auburn was once represented by former Premier, Jack Lang, and later by his son, James Lang. The seat was once vacant for four months; between December, 1955 and March, 1956; as a result of the death of Edgar Dring. A by-election was not held, given the relatively short amount of time left until the New South Wales state election, 1956.

Members

MemberPartyTerm
  Jack Lang Labor 1927–1940
  Labor (N-C) 1940–1941
  Labor 1941–1943
  Lang Labor 1943–1946
  James Lang Lang Labor 1946–1950
  Edgar Dring Labor 1950–1955
  Thomas Ryan Labor 1956–1965
  Peter Cox Labor 1965–1988
  Peter Nagle Labor 1988–2001
  Barbara Perry Labor 2001–2015
  Luke Foley Labor 2015–present

Election results

New South Wales state election, 2015: Auburn[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Luke Foley 19,504 44.5 −1.0
Liberal Ronney Oueik 15,471 35.3 +1.9
Greens Malikeh Michels 2,658 6.1 −0.4
Independent Paul Garrard 2,457 5.6 +5.6
No Land Tax Kays Ahmed 1,857 4.2 +4.2
Christian Democrats Raema Walker 1,836 4.2 −0.5
Total formal votes 43,783 94.5 +0.1
Informal votes 2,560 5.5 −0.1
Turnout 46,343 87.0 +0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Luke Foley 21,343 55.9 −1.2
Liberal Ronney Oueik 16,816 44.1 +1.2
Labor hold Swing −1.2

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, January 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.