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Albury New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Dates current | 1880–1920 1927–present | ||||||||||||||
MP | Justin Clancy | ||||||||||||||
Party | Liberal | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Albury, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 59,834 (2023) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 16,286.87 km2 (6,288.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Provincial and rural | ||||||||||||||
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Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is currently held by Justin Clancy of the Liberal Party.
Albury is a regional electorate in the state's south. It encompasses the local government areas of the City of Albury, Greater Hume Shire, Federation Council, part of Snowy Valleys Council that includes the town of Cabramurra. Its significant population centres include Albury, Culcairn, Jindera, Corowa, Howlong, Holbrook and Tumbarumba. [1]
Albury was first created in 1880 from part of Hume and is named after the city of Albury. In 1920, Albury, Wagga Wagga and Corowa were absorbed into Murray, and four members were elected under proportional representation. At the end of proportional representation in 1927, Albury was recreated.
Albury has generally been considered as a heartland seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors. While Labor has occasionally managed to break the conservative hold on the seat, these have typically occurred only at the peak of a popular government. [2] For instance, former Albury mayor Harold Mair won the seat for Labor in 1978 and held it for a decade–only the second Labor member ever to win it in its present incarnation, and the only one to hold it for more than one term. However, Mair's name recognition in the area was not enough to keep him from being swept out in the landslide Labor defeat of 1988. Liberal Ian Glachan, who had been Mair's opponent in 1984, actually turned Albury into a safe seat in one stroke.
Since then, Labor has never come close to retaking the seat. Labor candidates are usually fortunate to get much more than 30 percent of the primary vote. The Liberal hold on the seat has only been seriously threatened once since then. In 1999, Glachan suffered a 16-point swing and bested independent Claire Douglas by only 687 votes. At that election, Labor was pushed into third place. However, Glachan would have easily retained the seat with a 15 percent majority in a "traditional" two-party contest with Labor. The seat reverted to form in 2003 upon Glachan's retirement. His successor, Greg Aplin, won 61.5 percent of the two-party vote, and Labor was pushed to fourth place on the primary vote behind Aplin and two independents. Aplin held the seat without serious difficulty until 2019, when he was succeeded by fellow Liberal Justin Clancy.
First incarnation (1880–1920) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
George Day [3] | None | 1880–1887 | |
Protectionist | 18871889 | ||
John Wilkinson [4] | Protectionist | 1889–1895 | |
Richard Ball [5] | Free Trade | 1895–1898 | |
Thomas Griffith [6] | Protectionist | 1898–1901 | |
Independent | 1901–1904 | ||
Gordon McLaurin [7] | Progressive | 1904–1907 | |
Independent | 1907–1913 | ||
John Cusack [8] | Labor | 1913–1917 | |
Independent Labor | 1917–1917 | ||
Arthur Manning [9] | Nationalist | 1917–1920 | |
Second incarnation (1927—present) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
John Ross [10] | Nationalist | 1927–1930 | |
Independent | 1930–1930 | ||
Joseph Fitzgerald [11] | Labor | 1930–1932 | |
Alexander Mair [12] | United Australia | 1932–1943 | |
Democratic | 1943–1945 | ||
Liberal | 1945–1946 | ||
John Hurley [13] | Labor | 1946–1947 | |
Doug Padman [14] | Liberal | 1947–1965 | |
Gordon Mackie [15] | Liberal | 1965–1978 | |
Harold Mair [16] | Labor | 1978–1988 | |
Ian Glachan [17] | Liberal | 1988–2003 | |
Greg Aplin [18] | Liberal | 2003–2019 | |
Justin Clancy [19] | Liberal | 2019–present |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Justin Clancy | 26,368 | 53.0 | −3.7 | |
Labor | Marcus Rowland | 11,081 | 22.3 | −2.6 | |
Greens | Eli Davern | 4,672 | 9.4 | +0.0 | |
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Peter Sinclair | 4,009 | 8.1 | +8.1 | |
Animal Justice | Asanki Fernando | 1,263 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Geoffrey Robertson | 1,224 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
Sustainable Australia | Ross Hamilton | 1,171 | 2.4 | −4.6 | |
Total formal votes | 49,788 | 96.5 | +1.3 | ||
Informal votes | 1,795 | 3.5 | −1.3 | ||
Turnout | 51,583 | 86.2 | −0.1 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Justin Clancy | 28,811 | 66.3 | +0.5 | |
Labor | Marcus Rowland | 14,626 | 33.7 | −0.5 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.5 |
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