| Liverpool New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1950–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Charishma Kaliyanda | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Liverpool | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 60,875 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 31.7318 km2 (12.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Liverpool is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. It is currently represented byCharishma Kaliyanda of theLabor Party.
The district is located in Western Sydney covering parts ofLiverpool City Council andFairfield City Council.
On its current boundaries, Liverpool takes in the suburbs ofAshcroft,Bonnyrigg,Bonnyrigg Heights,Busby,Cartwright,Cecil Hills,Elizabeth Hills,Green Valley,Heckenberg,Hinchinbrook,Hoxton Park,Len Waters Estate,Liverpool,Miller,Mount Pritchard,Sadleir andWarwick Farm.[1]
Liverpool was created in 1950 and has since always been represented by a member of theLabor Party. It has historically been one of the safestLabor seats inNew South Wales and is considered a part ofLabor's heartland inWestern Sydney.[2][3]To the testament of how safe this seat is, at the 2011 election it became the safest ALP seat with sitting member Paul Lynch winning 64.7% of the two party preferred vote. As virtually all other ALP MPs were reduced to margins less than 55%. ThoughRon Hoenig won a larger vote at the Heffron by-election held in August 2012 but that was achieved in the absence of a Liberal opponent.
| Member | Party | Term | ||
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| James McGirr [4] | Labor | 1950–1952 | ||
| Jack Mannix [5] | Labor | 1952–1971 | ||
| George Paciullo [6] | Labor | 1971–1989 | ||
| Peter Anderson [7] | Labor | 1989–1995 | ||
| Paul Lynch [8] | Labor | 1995–2023 | ||
| Charishma Kaliyanda | Labor | 2023–present | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Charishma Kaliyanda | 22,681 | 47.2 | −7.9 | |
| Liberal | Richard Ammoun | 16,409 | 34.1 | +7.8 | |
| Independent | Michael Andjelkovic | 3,508 | 7.3 | +7.3 | |
| Greens | Amy Croft | 3,039 | 6.3 | +0.9 | |
| Animal Justice | Gabriel Hancock | 1,446 | 3.0 | +3.0 | |
| Linda Harris | 982 | 2.0 | +2.0 | ||
| Total formal votes | 48,065 | 94.0 | −0.8 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,047 | 6.0 | +0.8 | ||
| Turnout | 51,112 | 84.4 | −1.4 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Charishma Kaliyanda | 24,913 | 58.3 | −9.0 | |
| Liberal | Richard Ammoun | 17,783 | 41.7 | +9.0 | |
| Laborhold | Swing | −9.0 | |||