| Blacktown New South Wales—Legislative Assembly |
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Location within Sydney |
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| State or territory: | New South Wales |
| Created: | 1941 |
| MP: | John Robertson |
| Party: | Australian Labor Party |
| Electors: | 49,621 (2011) |
| Area: | 32 km² (12 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Outer Metropolitan |
Blacktown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a 31.49 km² urban electorate in Sydney's outer west, taking in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside and Marayong. There were 46,357 electors enrolled in the district as of the 2007 state election.
Blacktown is known as a largely working-class area, and as such, the electorate has tended to strongly support the Australian 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 tried and failed to find a safer seat before losing to the Liberal Party of Australia's Alfred Dennis, but has since reverted to its usual tendencies. The current member for Blacktown is John Robertson, current Opposition Leader.
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| Member | Party | Period | |
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| Frank Hill | Labor | 1941—1945 | |
| John Freeman | Labor | 1945—1959 | |
| Alfred Dennis | Liberal | 1959—1962 | |
| Independent | 1962—1962 | ||
| Jim Southee | Labor | 1962—1971 | |
| Gordon Barnier | Labor | 1971—1981 | |
| John Aquilina | Labor | 1981—1991 | |
| Pam Allan | Labor | 1991—1999 | |
| Paul Gibson | Labor | 1999—2011 | |
| John Robertson | Labor | 2011—present | |
| New South Wales state election, 2011: Blacktown[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | John Robertson | 19,419 | 44.1 | -17.6 | |
| Liberal | Karlo Siljeg | 16,047 | 36.4 | +15.7 | |
| Christian Democrats | Bernie Gesling | 2,639 | 6.0 | -1.1 | |
| Greens | Paul Taylor | 2,473 | 5.6 | +0.8 | |
| Independent | Wayne Olling | 1,177 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
| Independent | Louise Kedwell | 1,166 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
| Independent | Greg Coulter | 1,152 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 44,073 | 95.5 | -0.7 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,074 | 4.5 | +0.7 | ||
| Turnout | 46,147 | 93.4 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | John Robertson | 20,796 | 53.7 | -18.7 | |
| Liberal | Karlo Siljeg | 17,910 | 46.3 | +18.7 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -18.7 | |||