Electoral district of Miranda

Miranda is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Eleni Petinos of the Liberal Party.

Miranda
New South WalesLegislative Assembly
Location of Miranda in Sydney
StateNew South Wales
Created1971
MPEleni Petinos
PartyLiberal Party
Electors54,949 (2019)
Area38.87 km2 (15.0 sq mi)
DemographicInner metropolitan
Coordinates34°1′38″S 151°5′1″E
Electorates around Miranda:
East Hills Oatley Rockdale
Holsworthy Miranda Cronulla
Heathcote Cronulla
Heathcote
Cronulla

Miranda is located in the north of Sutherland Shire on the south shore of Georges River. It includes the suburbs of Alfords Point, Bonnet Bay, Como, Gymea, Illawong, Jannali, Kangaroo Point, Kareela, Kirrawee, Miranda, Oyster Bay, Sylvania, Sylvania Waters, Taren Point and parts of Caringbah and Sutherland.[1]

History

Created in 1971, Miranda had traditionally been a Liberal electorate, being won by Labor only at landslide elections, two under Neville Wran in 1978 and 1981, and again under Bob Carr in 1999 and 2003. According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in 2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor. On a margin of 0.8 percent it was the Labor government's most marginal seat. In 2011 the Liberals won government in a landslide, and the seat of Miranda on a very safe 21.0 percent margin, with 39 seats held by the Coalition on smaller margins.[2]

The seat was made vacant following the resignation of Liberal MP Graham Annesley. The 2013 Miranda by-election was conducted on 19 October, Labor's Barry Collier won the seat with a two-party swing of 26 percent in the largest by-election swing in the state's history.[3] He did not stand for re-election at the 2015 NSW State election and the seat was subsequently won by the Liberal Party's Eleni Petinos.[4]

Members for Miranda

MemberPartyTerm
  Tim Walker Liberal 1971–1978
  Bill Robb Labor 1978–1984
  Ron Phillips Liberal 1984–1999
  Barry Collier Labor 1999–2011
  Graham Annesley Liberal 2011–2013
  Barry Collier Labor 2013–2015
  Eleni Petinos Liberal 2015–present

Election results

2019 New South Wales state election: Miranda[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Eleni Petinos 26,417 53.84 −1.41
Labor Jen Armstrong 13,213 26.93 −2.70
One Nation Gaye Cameron 3,461 7.05 +7.05
Greens Nathan Hunt 3,333 6.79 −0.18
Christian Democrats George Capsis 1,604 3.27 −1.06
Sustainable Australia Nick Hughes 1,038 2.12 +2.12
Total formal votes 49,066 97.35 +0.68
Informal votes 1,336 2.65 −0.68
Turnout 50,402 91.73 −1.54
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Eleni Petinos 28,414 64.57 +1.61
Labor Jen Armstrong 15,593 35.43 −1.61
Liberal hold Swing+1.61

References

  1. "Miranda". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. "Miranda State By-election". Antony Green ABC. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  3. Labor's Barry Collier returns to NSW Parliament after record swing against O'Farrell Government in Miranda by-election: Antony Green ABC News 19 October 2013
  4. Collier exits again - Miranda MP calls it quits 'for wife and family' St George Leader 16 October 2014
  5. "Miranda: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  6. "Miranda: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
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