| Parramatta New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the2023 state election | |||||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1856–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Donna Davis | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Parramatta | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 57,995 (2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 36 km2 (13.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Parramatta is anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly in the Australian state ofNew South Wales. It was won byDonna Davis of theLabor Party in the2023 NSW state election.
Parramatta is an urban electorate inSydney's inner north-west, roughly analogous to theCity of Parramatta.
On its current boundaries, Parramatta takes in the suburbs ofCamellia,Carlingford,Dundas,Dundas Valley,Ermington,Granville,Harris Park,Melrose Park,North Parramatta,North Rocks,Oatlands,Parramatta,Rosehill,Rydalmere,Telopea andWestmead, as well as part ofMays Hill.[1]

Parramatta is the only electorate to haveexisted continuously since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856. It elected two members simultaneously from 1856 to 1880. In 1920, it absorbedGranville and elected three members underproportional representation. In 1927, it was divided into the single-member electorates of Parramatta,Granville andAuburn.
For most of its single member history since 1927 and prior to 2011 Parramatta was a safeLabor Party seat. Prior to 2011 it was last held by the Liberals byJohn Books from 1988 to 1991. The Liberal Party had hopes of winning back the seat at the 1994 by-election when it was a marginal ALP seat but the ALP retained the seat with a huge swing towards it.
Labor went into the 2011 election holding the seat with a margin of 13.1 percent, but Liberal challengerGeoff Lee won it on a swing of 25.8 percent, turning it into a safe Liberal seat in one stroke. He was reelected in 2015, the first time in over 60 years that the Liberals (or their predecessors) have been reelected in the seat's single member incarnation.
| Two members (1856–1880) | |||||||
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| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Henry Parker | None | 1856–1857 | George Oakes | None | 1856–1860 | ||
| James Byrnes | None | 1858–1861 | |||||
| John Lackey | None | 1860–1864 | |||||
| Arthur Holroyd | None | 1861–1864 | |||||
| James Byrnes | None | 1864–1872 | James Farnell | None | 1864–1874 | ||
| Hugh Taylor | None | 1872–1880 | |||||
| Charles Byrnes | None | 1874–1877 | |||||
| William Long | None | 1877–1880 | |||||
| Single-member (1880–1920) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Charles Byrnes | None | 1880–1882 | |
| Hugh Taylor | None | 1882–1887 | |
| Free Trade | 1887–1894 | ||
| Dowell O'Reilly | Ind. Free Trade | 1894–1895 | |
| Free Trade | 1895–1898 | ||
| William Ferris | Protectionist | 1898–1901 | |
| Tom Moxham | Liberal Reform | 1901–1916 | |
| Albert Bruntnell | Liberal Reform | 1916–1917 | |
| Nationalist | 1917–1920 | ||
| Three members (1920–1927) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| Albert Bruntnell | Nationalist | 1920–1927 | Bill Ely | Labor | 1920–1922 | Jack Lang | Labor | 1920–1927 | |||
| Thomas Morrow | Nationalist | 1922–1925 | |||||||||
| Bill Ely | Labor | 1925–1927 | |||||||||
| Single-member (1927–present) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Albert Bruntnell | Nationalist | 1927–1929 | |
| Herbert Lloyd | Nationalist | 1929–1930 | |
| Joseph Byrne | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
| George Gollan | United Australia | 1932–1945 | |
| Liberal | 1945–1953 | ||
| Kevin Morgan | Labor | 1953–1956 | |
| Jim Clough | Liberal | 1956–1959 | |
| Dan Mahoney | Labor | 1959–1976 | |
| Barry Wilde | Labor | 1976–1988 | |
| John Books | Liberal | 1988–1991 | |
| Andrew Ziolkowski | Labor | 1991–1994 | |
| Gabrielle Harrison | Labor | 1994–2003 | |
| Tanya Gadiel | Labor | 2003–2011 | |
| Geoff Lee | Liberal | 2011–2023 | |
| Donna Davis | Labor | 2023–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Donna Davis | 22,704 | 47.0 | +13.0 | |
| Liberal | Katie Mullens | 17,152 | 35.5 | −14.5 | |
| Greens | Ben Hammond | 4,852 | 10.0 | +2.1 | |
| One Nation | Mritunjay Singh | 2,464 | 5.1 | +5.1 | |
| Sustainable Australia | David Moll | 1,109 | 2.3 | +1.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 48,281 | 96.9 | +0.2 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,519 | 3.1 | −0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 49,800 | 85.9 | +2.4 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Donna Davis | 26,355 | 58.6 | +15.0 | |
| Liberal | Katie Mullens | 18,655 | 41.4 | −15.0 | |
| Laborgain fromLiberal | Swing | +15.0 | |||