Electoral district of Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Trish Doyle of the Labor Party.

Blue Mountains
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location in New South Wales
StateNew South Wales
Created1968
MPTrish Doyle
PartyLabor Party
Electors54,885 (2019)
Area1,422.63 km2 (549.3 sq mi)

The 2004 redistribution of electoral districts estimated that the electoral district would have 45,289 electors on 29 April 2007.[1][2][3][4] Since the 2007 election it has encompassed all of the City of Blue Mountains, except Glenbrook and Lapstone.[5]

Members for Blue Mountains
MemberPartyPeriod
  Harold Coates [6] Independent 1968–1976
  Mick Clough [7] Labor 1976–1981
  Bob Debus [8] Labor 1981–1988
  Barry Morris [9] Liberal 1988–1994
  Independent 1994–1995
  Bob Debus [8] Labor 1995–2007
  Phil Koperberg [10] Labor 2007–2011
  Roza Sage [11] Liberal 2011–2015
  Trish Doyle [12] Labor 2015–present

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Blue Mountains
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Blue Mountains[edit]
2019 New South Wales state election: Blue Mountains [13][14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Trish Doyle 23,022 46.77 +5.58
Liberal Owen Laffin 13,982 28.40 −7.11
Greens Kingsley Liu 5,993 12.17 −4.07
Animal Justice Gregory Keightley 2,008 4.08 +4.08
Christian Democrats Cameron Phillips 1,786 3.63 +0.52
Sustainable Australia Richard Marschall 1,496 3.04 +3.04
Keep Sydney Open Mark Pigott 941 1.91 +1.91
Total formal votes 49,228 97.52 +0.04
Informal votes 1,250 2.48 −0.04
Turnout 50,478 91.97 −1.33
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Trish Doyle 28,834 64.86 +6.71
Liberal Owen Laffin 15,620 35.14 −6.71
Labor hold Swing+6.71

See also
  • List of Blue Mountains articles

References
  1. "Redistribution Commissioners' Report" (PDF). Election Funding Authority of New South Wales. 21 December 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2006.
  2. "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Blue Mountains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  5. "Blue Mountains". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  6. "Mr Harold George Coates (1917-2002)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  7. "Mr (Mick) Ralph James Clough (1927-2008)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  8. "The Hon. (Bob) Robert John Debus (1943- )". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  9. "Mr Barry John Morris (1935-2001)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  10. "Mr (Phil) Philip Christian Koperberg (1943- )". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  11. "Mrs Roza Eva Maria Sage". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  12. "Ms (Trish) Trisha Lee Doyle". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  13. "Blue Mountains: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  14. "Blue Mountains: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
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