Gordon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. Originally created in 1904, replacing Willoughby. With the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the five-member electorate of Ryde, along with Burwood and Willoughby. It was recreated in 1927, but was abolished in 1999. It originally covered most of the suburbs of the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area (then known as Ku-ring-gai Municipality), including the suburbs of Lindfield and Gordon. [1] [2] [3]
Recent Member of Parliament representing Gordon included:
At the redistribution prior to the 1995 State election, the electorate of Gordon was abolished. The suburbs previously included in the Gordon electorate were mostly reassigned to Ku-ring-gai, with some other sections to Willoughby and some smaller ones to Davidson. Subsequent redistributions have resulted in most of the suburbs formerly in Gordon electorate now being within the Davidson electorate.
First incarnation (1904–1920) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Charles Wade | Liberal Reform | 1904–1917 | |
Thomas Bavin | Nationalist | 1917–1920 | |
Second incarnation (1927–1999) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
(Sir) Thomas Bavin | Nationalist | 1927–1931 | |
United Australia | 1931–1935 | ||
Sir Philip Goldfinch | United Australia | 1935–1937 | |
Harry Turner | United Australia | 1937–1945 | |
Liberal | 1945–1952 | ||
Stewart Fraser | Liberal | 1953–1962 | |
Independent | 1962 | ||
Harry Jago | Liberal | 1962–1973 | |
Kevin Harrold | Democratic Labor | 1973–1976 | |
Tim Moore | Liberal | 1976–1992 | |
Jeremy Kinross | Liberal | 1992–1999 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Jeremy Kinross | 22,928 | 68.0 | -6.5 | |
Labor | Jan Butland | 4,174 | 12.4 | +1.1 | |
Democrats | Ann Barry | 2,635 | 7.8 | -2.6 | |
Greens | Ross Knowles | 2,009 | 6.0 | +6.0 | |
Stop Dual Occupancy | Tanya Wood | 1,102 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Call to Australia | Margaret Ratcliffe | 700 | 2.1 | -1.8 | |
CEC | Leone Hay | 156 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Total formal votes | 33,704 | 96.8 | +2.7 | ||
Informal votes | 1,106 | 3.2 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 34,810 | 93.4 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Jeremy Kinross | 25,108 | 80.3 | -3.3 | |
Labor | Jan Butland | 6,171 | 19.7 | +3.3 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | -3.3 |
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