Electoral district of Miranda
Miranda New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Location of Miranda in Sydney | |||||||||||||||
State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Created | 1971 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Eleni Petinos | ||||||||||||||
Party | Liberal Party | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 54,949 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 38.87 km2 (15.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Inner metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°1′38″S 151°5′1″E / 34.02722°S 151.08361°ECoordinates: 34°1′38″S 151°5′1″E / 34.02722°S 151.08361°E | ||||||||||||||
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Miranda is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Eleni Petinos of the Liberal Party.
Miranda is located in the north of Sutherland Shire on the south shore of Georges River. It includes the suburbs of Alfords Point, Bonnet Bay, Como, Gymea, Illawong, Jannali, Kangaroo Point, Kareela, Kirrawee, Miranda, Oyster Bay, Sylvania, Sylvania Waters, Taren Point and parts of Caringbah and Sutherland.[1]
History[]
Created in 1971, Miranda had traditionally been a Liberal electorate, being won by Labor only at landslide elections, two under Neville Wran in 1978 and 1981, and again under Bob Carr in 1999 and 2003. According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in 2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor. On a margin of 0.8 percent it was the Labor government's most marginal seat. In 2011 the Liberals won government in a landslide, and the seat of Miranda on a very safe 21.0 percent margin, with 39 seats held by the Coalition on smaller margins.[2]
The seat was made vacant following the resignation of Liberal MP Graham Annesley. The 2013 Miranda by-election was conducted on 19 October, Labor's Barry Collier won the seat with a two-party swing of 26 percent in the largest by-election swing in the state's history.[3] He did not stand for re-election at the 2015 NSW State election and the seat was subsequently won by the Liberal Party's Eleni Petinos.[4]
Members for Miranda[]
Member | Party | Term | |
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Tim Walker | Liberal | 1971–1978 | |
Bill Robb | Labor | 1978–1984 | |
Ron Phillips | Liberal | 1984–1999 | |
Barry Collier | Labor | 1999–2011 | |
Graham Annesley | Liberal | 2011–2013 | |
Barry Collier | Labor | 2013–2015 | |
Eleni Petinos | Liberal | 2015–present |
Election results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Eleni Petinos | 26,417 | 53.84 | −1.41 | |
Labor | Jen Armstrong | 13,213 | 26.93 | −2.70 | |
One Nation | Gaye Cameron | 3,461 | 7.05 | +7.05 | |
Greens | Nathan Hunt | 3,333 | 6.79 | −0.18 | |
Christian Democrats | George Capsis | 1,604 | 3.27 | −1.06 | |
Sustainable Australia | Nick Hughes | 1,038 | 2.12 | +2.12 | |
Total formal votes | 49,066 | 97.35 | +0.68 | ||
Informal votes | 1,336 | 2.65 | −0.68 | ||
Turnout | 50,402 | 91.73 | −1.54 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Eleni Petinos | 28,414 | 64.57 | +1.61 | |
Labor | Jen Armstrong | 15,593 | 35.43 | −1.61 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.61 |
References[]
- ^ "Miranda". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Miranda State By-election". Antony Green ABC. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
- ^ Labor's Barry Collier returns to NSW Parliament after record swing against O'Farrell Government in Miranda by-election: Antony Green ABC News 19 October 2013
- ^ Collier exits again - Miranda MP calls it quits 'for wife and family' St George Leader 16 October 2014
- ^ "Miranda: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Miranda: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- Electoral districts of New South Wales
- 1971 establishments in Australia
- Constituencies established in 1971