Electoral district of Blacktown

Blacktown
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Blacktown; New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
	Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Created	1941
MP	Stephen Bali
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Blacktown
Electors	55,013 (2019)
Area	33.03 km2 (12.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer metropolitan
	Electorates around Blacktown:

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.

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.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Blacktown takes in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside, Kings Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and parts of Bungarribee, Lalor Park, Quakers Hill and Seven Hills.^[1]

Members for Blacktown

	Party	Period
Frank Hill ^[2]	Labor	1941–1945
John Freeman ^[3]	Labor	1945–1959
Alfred Dennis ^[4]	Liberal	1959–1962
Alfred Dennis ^[4]	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

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

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

[1] "Blacktown". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[Frank_Hill_NSW_Parl-2] "Mr Francis Hill (1883-1945)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2019.

[John_Freeman_NSW_Parl-3] "Mr John Stanley Freeman (1894-1970)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[Alfred_Dennis_NSW_Parl-4] "Mr Alfred Hugh Dennis (1924- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

[Jim_Southee_NSW_Parl-5] "Mr James Bernard Southee (1902-1979)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

[Gordon_Barnier_NSW_Parl-6] "Mr Gordon Arthur Barnier (1928-2000)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.

[John_Aquilina_NSW_Parl-7] "The Hon. John Joseph Aquilina (1950- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

[Pam_Allan_NSW_Parl-8] "The Hon. Pamela Diane Allan (1953- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

[Paul_Gibson_NSW_Parl-9] "Mr Paul Bernard Gibson (1944- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

[John_Robertson_NSW_Parl-10] "Mr John Robertson (1962- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

[Stephen_Bali_NSW_Parl-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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