Riverstone
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
StateNew South Wales
Created1981
MPWarren Kirby
PartyLabor
NamesakeRiverstone
Electors63,427 (2023)
Area73.42 km2 (28.3 sq mi)
DemographicOuter-metropolitan
Electorates around Riverstone:
Hawkesbury Hawkesbury Hawkesbury
Londonderry Riverstone Kellyville
Blacktown Blacktown Winston Hills

Riverstone is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It has been represented by Warren Kirby of the Australian Labor Party since the 2023 New South Wales state election.

Riverstone is a 73 km² urban and semi-rural electorate in Sydney's north west, taking in the suburbs of Acacia Gardens, Angus, Grantham Farm, Kellyville Ridge, Nirimba Fields, Parklea, Richards, Riverstone, Schofields, Stanhope Gardens, Tallawong, The Ponds and parts of Glenwood, Marsden Park, Quakers Hill, Rouse Hill and Vineyard.[1]

Much of the electorate is situated in the growing north-west sector, which has been poorly served in transport, health and police resources. Although ancestrally a Labor seat, changing demographics in the eastern portion of the seat (Glenwood, Parklea, Acacia Gardens, Stanhope Gardens, Kellyville Ridge, The Ponds, Rouse Hill) suggested a long-term Liberal trend in voting patterns.[2] Proving this, Liberal Kevin Conolly won the seat in 2011 on a swing of 30.2 percent—almost unheard of in Australian politics—turning the seat from safe Labor to very safe Liberal in one stroke. In 2023, the current member Warren Kirby won the seat back for Labor with a swing of over 12%.[3]

Members for Riverstone

Member Party Term
  Tony Johnson [4] Labor 1981–1983
  Richard Amery [5] Labor 1983–1991
  John Aquilina [6] Labor 1991–2011
  Kevin Conolly [7] Liberal 2011–2023
  Warren Kirby Labor 2023–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Riverstone
2023 New South Wales state election: Riverstone[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Warren Kirby 24,580 44.2 +4.2
Liberal Mohit Kumar 22,167 39.9 −14.1
Greens Rob Vail 3,969 7.1 +1.2
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers Anthony Belcastro 1,816 3.3 +3.3
Independent Tabitha Ponnambalam 1,761 3.2 +3.2
Sustainable Australia Tim Horan 1,282 2.3 +2.3
Total formal votes 55,575 96.9 −0.2
Informal votes 1,793 3.1 +0.2
Turnout 57,368 90.4 +5.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Warren Kirby 27,662 53.7 +9.9
Liberal Mohit Kumar 23,848 46.3 −9.9
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +9.9

References

  1. ^ "Riverstone". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Riverstone - NSW Votes 2011". ABC News.
  3. ^ Green, Antony. "Riverstone (Key Seat) - NSW Election 2023". ABC.
  4. ^ "Mr Anthony Valentine Patrick Johnson". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  5. ^ "The Hon. Richard Sanderson Amery". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  6. ^ "The Hon. John Joseph Aquilina (1950- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Mr Kevin Francis Conolly, MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  8. ^ LA First Preference: Riverstone, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  9. ^ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Riverstone, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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