Blacktown
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
StateNew South Wales
Created1941
MPStephen Bali
PartyLabor Party
NamesakeBlacktown
Electors55,013 (2019)
Area33.03 km2 (12.8 sq mi)
DemographicOuter metropolitan
Electorates around Blacktown:
Londonderry Riverstone Riverstone
Winston Hills
Mount Druitt Blacktown Winston Hills
Prospect
Badgerys Creek Prospect Prospect

Blacktown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The current member is Labor's Stephen Bali, who replaced former Labor leader John Robertson at a by-election in October 2017.

Blacktown is a 33.03 km² urban electorate in Sydney's outer west, taking in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside, Kings Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and parts of Bungarribee, Lalor Park, Quakers Hill and Seven Hills.[1]

History

Blacktown is known as a largely working-class area, and as such, the electorate has tended to strongly support the Labor Party, which has held the seat for all but three years since its inception. It was briefly marginal during the late 1950s, when long-serving member John Freeman was forced into retirement after trying and failing to find a safer seat. Liberal Alfred Dennis won the seat in the 1959 election, but held it for only one term before Labor regained it.

Since then, Labor's hold on the seat has only been seriously threatened once, when Labor suffered a swing of 18.7 percent amid its massive defeat in 2011. It is the only time since the 1950s that Labor has not won an outright majority of the primary vote in the seat.

Members for Blacktown

Member Party Period
  Frank Hill [2] Labor 1941–1945
  John Freeman [3] Labor 1945–1959
  Alfred Dennis [4] Liberal 1959–1962
  Independent 1962
  Jim Southee [5] Labor 1962–1971
  Gordon Barnier [6] Labor 1971–1981
  John Aquilina [7] Labor 1981–1991
  Pam Allan [8] Labor 1991–1999
  Paul Gibson [9] Labor 1999–2011
  John Robertson [10] Labor 2011–2017
  Stephen Bali [11] Labor 2017–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Blacktown
2023 New South Wales state election: Blacktown[12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stephen Bali 27,128 55.6 +0.9
Liberal Allan Green 11,637 23.9 −2.6
Legalise Cannabis Peter Foster 2,524 5.2 +5.2
Greens Leonard Hobbs 2,521 5.2 −1.1
Animal Justice Emma Kerin 2,357 4.8 +4.7
Liberal Democrats Alexander Mishalow 1,559 3.2 +3.2
Sustainable Australia Patrick Murphy 1,022 2.1 +2.1
Total formal votes 48,748 95.8 −0.1
Informal votes 2,123 4.2 +0.1
Turnout 50,871 86.8 −2.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Stephen Bali 30,091 69.1 +2.5
Liberal Allan Green 13,442 30.9 −2.5
Labor hold Swing +2.5

References

  1. ^ "Blacktown". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Mr Francis Hill (1883-1945)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Mr John Stanley Freeman (1894-1970)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Mr Alfred Hugh Dennis (1924- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Mr James Bernard Southee (1902-1979)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Mr Gordon Arthur Barnier (1928-2000)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  7. ^ "The Hon. John Joseph Aquilina (1950- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  8. ^ "The Hon. Pamela Diane Allan (1953- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  9. ^ "Mr Paul Bernard Gibson (1944- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Mr John Robertson (1962- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Mr Stephen Bali". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  12. ^ LA First Preference: Blacktown, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  13. ^ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Blacktown, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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