Electoral district of Blacktown explained

Blacktown
State:	nsw
Created:	1941
Mp:	Stephen Bali
Mp-Party:	Labor Party
Namesake:	Blacktown
Electors:	55013
Electors Year:	2019
Area:	33.03
Class:	Outer metropolitan
Near-N:	Riverstone
Near-Ne:	Riverstone Winston Hills
Near-E:	Winston Hills Prospect
Near-Se:	Prospect
Near-S:	Prospect
Near-Sw:	Badgerys Creek
Near-W:	Mount Druitt
Near-Nw:	Londonderry

Blacktown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The current member is '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. 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

Member		Party	Period
		Frank Hill^[2]		1941–1945
		John Freeman^[3]		1945–1959
		Alfred Dennis^[4]		1959–1962
				1962
		Jim Southee^[5]		1962–1971
		Gordon Barnier^[6]		1971–1981
		John Aquilina^[7]		1981–1991
		Pam Allan^[8]		1991–1999
		Paul Gibson^[9]		1999–2011
		John Robertson^[10]		2011–2017
		Stephen Bali^[11]		2017–present

Election results

See main article: Electoral results for the district of Blacktown.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Blacktown . . 23 November 2019.
2. Mr Francis Hill (1883-1945) . 1391 . Yes . 4 May 2019.
3. Mr John Stanley Freeman (1894-1970) . 1560 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
4. Mr Alfred Hugh Dennis (1924-) . 1839 . Yes . 26 September 2019.
5. Mr James Bernard Southee (1902-1979) . 1636 . Yes . 10 May 2019.
6. Mr Gordon Arthur Barnier (1928-2000) . 1873 . Yes . 3 May 2019.
7. 2143 . The Hon. John Joseph Aquilina (1950-) . Yes . 27 April 2019.
8. The Hon. Pamela Diane Allan (1953-) . 2079 . Yes . 27 April 2019.
9. Mr Paul Bernard Gibson (1944-) . 2124 . Yes . 10 September 2019.
10. Mr John Robertson (1962-) . 49 . Yes . 3 April 2019.
11. Mr Stephen Bali . 2233 . 3 May 2019.