Electoral district of Canterbury

Canterbury
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly

Location within Sydney
State New South Wales
Dates current 1859–1920, 1927–present
MP Linda Burney
Party Australian Labor Party
Electors 51,550 (2011)
Area 18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Demographic Inner Metropolitan

Canterbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Linda Burney of the Australian Labor Party.

Canterbury includes the suburbs of Belmore, Campsie, Canterbury, Clemton Park, Earlwood, Hurlstone Park, Undercliffe and parts of Ashbury, Belfield, Beverly Hills, Kingsgrove, Roselands.[1]

History

Canterbury was created in 1859, replacing part of Cumberland (South Riding), named after and including the then town, now Sydney suburb, of Canterbury. It was bordered on the east by Glebe and Newtown, and from 1880, Balmain and Redfern and stretched in the north to Drummoyne and Rhodes, south to Georges River and west to a line between Salt Pan Creek and Homebush Bay. It was a multi-member electorate, electing two members until 1882 and then four members until the abolition of multi-member electorates in 1894, when it was split into Canterbury, Ashfield, Burwood, Petersham and St George. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and absorbed into St George. It was recreated in 1927, and has been held by Labor for all but one term since. In recent decades it has become one of Labor's safest seats.

Members for Canterbury

First incarnation (1859–1882, 2 members)
Member PartyTermMember PartyTerm
  Edward Flood None 1859–1860   Samuel Lyons None 1859–1860
  John Lucas None 1860–1865   Edward Raper None 1860–1864
None   James Oatley None 1864–1869
  James Pemell None 1865–1868 None
  Richard Hill None 1868–1877 None
None   Montagu Stephen None 1869–1870
None   John Lucas None 1871–1880
  Henry Parkes None 1877–1880 None
  William Pigott None 1880–1882   William Henson None 1880–1882
Second incarnation (1882–1894, 4 members)
MemberPartyTermMemberPartyTermMemberPartyTermMemberPartyTerm
  William Pigott None 1882–1884   Henry Moses None 1882–1885   William Henson None 1882–1887   Septimus Stephen None 1882–1887
  Mark Hammond None 1884–1887
  William Judd None 1885–1887
  William Davis Free Trade 1887–1889   Alexander Hutchison Free Trade 1887–1891   Free Trade 1887–1889   Joseph Carruthers Free Trade 1887–1894
  James Wilshire Free Trade 1889–1891   John Wheeler Free Trade 1889–1891
  Cornelius Danahey Labor 1891–1894   Thomas Bavister Labor 1891–1894   James Eve Free Trade 1891–1894
Third incarnation (1894–1920, 1 member)
MemberPartyTerm
  Varney Parkes Free Trade 1894–1900
  Sydney Smith Free Trade 1900–1900
  Thomas Taylor Independent 1900–1901
  Thomas Mackenzie Liberal Reform 1901–1907
  Varney Parkes Independent Liberal 1907–1907
  Liberal Reform 1907–1913
  Henry Peters Labor 1913–1914
  George Cann Labor 1914–1920
Fourth incarnation (1927–present, 1 member)
MemberPartyTerm
  Arthur Tonge Labor 1927–1932
  Edward Hocking United Australia 1932–1935
  Arthur Tonge Labor 1935–1962
  Kevin Stewart Labor 1962–1985
  Kevin Moss Labor 1986–2003
  Linda Burney Labor 2003–present

Election results

New South Wales state election, 2015: Canterbury[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Linda Burney 23,929 50.2 +1.4
Liberal Nomiky Panayiotakis 12,859 27.0 −9.9
Christian Democrats Tony Issa 4,854 10.2 +6.0
Greens Linda Eisler 4,608 9.7 +0.3
No Land Tax Tony Maiorana 1,386 2.9 +2.9
Total formal votes 47,636 95.2 +0.3
Informal votes 2,395 4.8 −0.3
Turnout 50,031 89.7 −3.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Linda Burney 27,663 65.7 +8.3
Liberal Nomiky Panayiotakis 14,447 34.3 −8.3
Labor hold Swing +8.3

References

  1. ↑ "Canterbury". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  2. ↑ State Electoral District of Canterbury: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
  3. ↑ State Electoral District of Canterbury: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.

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