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Australian electorate

Pittwater
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly

Interactive map of district boundaries from the2023 state election

State

New South Wales

Dates current

1973–present

Namesake

57,196 (2024)

Area

190.16 km² (73.4 sq mi)

Demographic

Outer-metropolitan

Electorates around Pittwater:
Hornsby	Gosford	Pacific Ocean
Hornsby	Pittwater	Pacific Ocean
Davidson	Wakehurst	Pacific Ocean

Pittwater is anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly in the Australian state ofNew South Wales. Located inSydney's north-east, it is 175.32 km² in size, and comprises a part of thelocal government area ofNorthern Beaches Council, mostly the portion that was formerlyPittwater Council.

It is named afterPittwater, a body of water the district roughly surrounds.

IndependentJacqui Scruby was elected at the2024 by-election, following the resignation of incumbentLiberal MPRory Amon on 30 August 2024 after he was charged with child sex offences.

History

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The electoral district of Pittwater was created in 1973. Located in the traditionalLiberal stronghold of Sydney's Northern Beaches, it was a comfortably safe Liberal seat for most of the first half-century of its existence. Its first member wasSir Robert William Askin, thenPremier of New South Wales. It had been created out of a large chunk of Askin's old seat ofCollaroy, and was thus a natural place for Askin to transfer when the seat was abolished.

The seat was held by New South Wales Opposition LeaderJohn Brogden until his dramatic resignation in 2005. The Liberal stranglehold on the seat was lost in the resulting by-election when theMayor of Pittwater Council,Alex McTaggart, standing as an Independent candidate, defeated the Liberal Paul Nicolau in a landslide.

The seat reverted to form at the2007 general election, with new Liberal candidateRob Stokes comfortably regaining the seat for his party with 61% of the two-party vote to McTaggart's 39%. Stokes actually won just over 50% of the primary vote, just a few thousand votes over the threshold to win the seat without the need for preferences. Stokes won every booth in the district with the exception ofScotland Island, whose few hundred offshore voters traditionally buck the trend. Stokes held the seat without serious difficulty until the 2023 NSW state election, when he retired on a majority of 20.8 percent, the third-safest in the state for a Coalition-held metropolitan seat.

At the 2023 election, Liberal Party newcomer Rory Amon was nearly defeated byteal independent Jacqui Scruby, surviving by only 606 votes.

WhileLabor usuallyruns dead in northern Sydney, Pittwater is especially unfriendly territory for Labor even by northern Sydney standards. Labor has only come reasonably close to winning the seat once, when it scored a 14-point swing in the "Wranslide" of1978. However, Labor has not won more than 20 percent of the primary vote since 1984, and not placed better than third place since 2007. Underscoring this, even with the large swing against the Liberals in 2023, Amon would retained the seat with a 13.2 percent majority in a "traditional" contest with Labor.

Amon was forced out of politics in 2024 after being charged with child sex offences. Scruby took the seat off the Liberals at the ensuing by-election.

The seat is entirely within the federal seat ofMackellar, which was a longstanding Liberal stronghold until it was won by teal independentSophie Scamps.

Geography

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On its current boundaries, Pittwater includes the suburbs or localities ofAvalon,Bayview,Bilgola,Church Point,Cottage Point,Duffys Forest,Elanora Heights,Ingleside,Ku-ring-gai Chase,Mona Vale,Narrabeen,Newport,North Narrabeen,Palm Beach,Scotland Island,Terrey Hills, andWarriewood.

Members for Pittwater

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Member	Party	Term	Notes
Robert Askin	Liberal	17 November 1973 – 3 January 1975	Premier from 1965 until 1975. Previously the member forCollaroy. Retired^[1]
Bruce Webster	Liberal	8 February 1975 – 21 July 1978	Wonby-election. Resigned several months before1978 state election^[2]
Max Smith	Liberal	7 October 1978 – 1984	Resigned fromLiberal Party sometime after the1984 election. Resigned from parliament^[3]
Max Smith	Independent	1984 – 11 April 1986
Jim Longley	Liberal	31 May 1986 – 20 March 1996	Wonby-election. Resigned^[4]
John Brogden	Liberal	25 May 1996 – 28 September 2005	Wonby-election.Leader of the Opposition from 2002 until 2005. Resigned after asuicide attempt^[5]
Alex McTaggart	Independent	26 November 2005 – 24 March 2007	Wonby-election. Lost seat^[6]
Rob Stokes	Liberal	24 March 2007 – 25 March 2023	Retired^[7]
Rory Amon	Liberal	25 March 2023 – 30 August 2024	Resigned simultaneously from parliament and theLiberal Party after being charged with child sex offences^[8]
Jacqui Scruby	Independent	19 October 2024 – present	Wonby-election. Incumbent

Election results

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This section is an excerpt from2024 Pittwater state by-election § Results.[edit]

2024 Pittwater state by-election^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	25,705	54.17	+18.31
	Liberal	Georgia Ryburn	19,852	41.84	−2.87
	Libertarian	Doug Rennie	1,893	3.99	+3.99
Total formal votes			47,450	97.43	−0.32
Informal votes			1,250	2.57	+0.32
Turnout			48,700	85.15	−5.01
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	26,050	55.94	+6.60
	Liberal	Georgia Ryburn	20,519	44.06	−6.60
	Independentgain fromLiberal		Swing	−6.60

References

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^"Sir Robert (Robin William) Askin (1907–1981)".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved3 May 2019.
^"Mr Bruce Laurence Webster (1927- )".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved13 May 2019.
^"Mr Richard Max Smith".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved11 May 2019.
^"Mr (Jim) James Alan Longley (1958- )".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved8 September 2019.
^"Mr John Gilbert Brogden (1969-)".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved13 May 2019.
^"Mr (Alex) Alexander John McTaggart (1949- )".Former members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved5 May 2019.
^"The Hon. (Rob) Robert Gordon Stokes, MP".Members of theParliament of New South Wales. Retrieved3 April 2019.
^Lewis, Alexander (30 August 2024)."Liberal MP for Pittwater Rory Amon charged with child sex offences". ABC News. Archived from the original on 30 August 2024. Retrieved30 August 2024.The ABC understands Mr Amon has quit the Liberal Party following the charges.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"LA - Check Count Final Results - First Preference Votes - Pittwater".NSW State Election Results 2024. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved7 November 2024.
^"LA Check Count Final Results - Distribution of Preferences - Pittwater".NSW State Election Results 2024. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved7 November 2024.

External links

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"Pittwater".New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved27 September 2011.

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