| Kogarah New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1930–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Chris Minns | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Kogarah | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 53,226 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 18.13 km2 (7.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Kogarah is anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly in the Australian state ofNew South Wales. The electorate is located inSt George. It is represented byChris Minns of theAustralian Labor Party, the state'spremier.
On its current boundaries, Kogarah takes in the suburbs ofAllawah,Beverly Hills,Carlton,Carss Park,Kogarah and parts ofBexley,Bexley North,Blakehurst,Hurstville,Kingsgrove,Penshurst andSouth Hurstville.[1]
Kogarah was created for the1930 election, partly replacing the abolished districts ofOatley andSt George. It was a marginal seat in the 1930s and 1940s but, since1953, it became increasingly safe forLabor.
The seat was first won by former state MP forSt George andOatley,Mark Gosling of the Labor Party.[2] However, following factionalism, splits and sectarianism within the state and federal Labor parties, theUnited Australia Party, later theLiberal Party, won the seat at the1932 election. Winning back the seat in1941, the Labor Party have since held the seat for seventy-eight of the seats ninety-three years of its existence.
Kogarah has one of the biggestChinese-Australian communities in Australia, with around 29,000 of the electorate's residents having a Chinese background.[3]
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Gosling [4] | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
| James Ross [5] | United Australia | 1932–1941 | |
| William Currey [6] | Labor | 1941–1948 | |
| Douglas Cross [7] | Liberal | 1948–1953 | |
| Bill Crabtree [8] | Labor | 1953–1983 | |
| Brian Langton [9] | Labor | 1983–1999 | |
| Cherie Burton [10] | Labor | 1999–2015 | |
| Chris Minns [11] | Labor | 2015–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Chris Minns | 30,916 | 60.6 | +19.7 | |
| Liberal | Craig Chung | 14,380 | 28.2 | −15.4 | |
| Greens | Tracy Yuen | 3,511 | 6.9 | +0.5 | |
| Independent | Troy Stolz | 2,186 | 4.3 | +4.3 | |
| Total formal votes | 50,993 | 96.0 | +0.3 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,145 | 4.0 | −0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 53,138 | 89.2 | +0.4 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Chris Minns | 33,393 | 68.3 | +18.1 | |
| Liberal | Craig Chung | 15,523 | 31.7 | −18.1 | |
| Laborhold | Swing | +18.1 | |||