Willoughby is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Gladys Berejiklian of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Willoughby was an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, first created in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member electoral districts from part of St Leonards, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Willoughby. With the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Ryde along with Burwood and Gordon. It was recreated in 1927, but abolished in 1988, being replaced by Middle Harbour. In 1991, Middle Harbour was abolished and replaced by Willoughby.
| First incarnation (1894–1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Joseph Cullen | Free Trade | 1894—1894 | |
| Edward Clark | Free Trade | 1894—1895 | |
| George Howarth | Free Trade | 1895—1901 | |
| Liberal Reform | 1901—1903 | ||
| Charles Wade | Liberal Reform | 1903—1904 | |
| Edward Larkin | Labor | 1913—1915 | |
| John Haynes | Independent Democrat | 1915—1917 | |
| Reginald Weaver | Nationalist | 1917—1920 | |
| Second incarnation (1927–1988) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Edward Sanders | Independent Nationalist | 1927—1930 | |
| Nationalist | 1930—1932 | ||
| United Australia | 1932—1943 | ||
| George Brain | Liberal/Democratic | 1943—1968 | |
| Laurie McGinty | Liberal | 1968—1977 | |
| Independent Liberal | 1977—1978 | ||
| Eddie Britt | Labor | 1978—1981 | |
| Peter Collins | Liberal | 1981—1988 | |
| Third incarnation (1991–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Peter Collins | Liberal | 1991—2003 | |
| Gladys Berejiklian | Liberal | 2003—present | |
| New South Wales state election, 2011: Willoughby[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Gladys Berejiklian | 30,644 | 69.4 | +19.2 | |
| Greens | Robert McDougall | 7,260 | 16.4 | +5.3 | |
| Labor | Chris Simpson | 5,287 | 12.0 | -3.2 | |
| Christian Democrats | Philip Brown | 958 | 2.2 | +0.5 | |
| Total formal votes | 44,149 | 97.6 | -0.1 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,108 | 2.4 | +0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 45,257 | 90.7 | +0.1 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Gladys Berejiklian | 31,709 | 78.1 | +13.6 | |
| Greens | Robert McDougall | 8,883 | 21.9 | +21.9 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +13.6 | |||