2011 New South Wales state election

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2011 New South Wales state election
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All 93 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
and 21 (of the 42) seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council
47 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
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Leader Barry O'Farrell Kristina Keneally no leader
Party Liberal/National coalition Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) Greens
Leader since 4 April 2007 4 December 2009
Leader's seat Ku-ring-gai Heffron
Last election 35 seats 52 seats 0 seats
Seats won 69 seats 20 seats 1 seats
Seat change Increase34 Decrease32 Increase 1
Popular vote 2,124,321 1,061,352 427,144
Percentage 51.15% 25.55% 10.29%
Swing Increase14.16% Decrease13.43% Increase 1.33%
TPP 64.22% 35.78%
TPP swing Increase16.48 Decrease16.48
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The top map shows the first party preference by electorate. The bottom map shows the final two-party preferred vote result by electorate.
Premier before election

Kristina Keneally
Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)

 Elected Premier

Barry O'Farrell
Liberal/National coalition

Elections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 26 March 2011. The 16-year-incumbent Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal–National Coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell. Labor suffered a two-party swing of 16.4 points, the largest against a sitting government at any level in Australia since World War II. From 48 seats at dissolution, Labor was knocked down to 20 seats—the worst defeat of a sitting government in New South Wales history, and one of the worst of a state government in Australia since federation. The Coalition picked up a 34-seat swing to win a strong majority, with 69 seats–the largest majority government, in terms of percentage of seats controlled, in NSW history. It is only the third time since 1941 that a NSW Labor government has been defeated.

New South Wales has compulsory voting, with an optional preferential ballot in single-member seats for the lower house and single transferable vote with optional preferential above-the-line voting in the proportionally represented upper house. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).

Results

Lower house

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See also: Results of the 2011 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly)

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For pendulum immediately after the 2011 election, see Post-election pendulum for the New South Wales state election, 2011.

New South Wales state election, 26 March 2011[1][2][3]
Legislative Assembly
<< 2007 — 2015 >>
Enrolled voters 4,635,810
Votes cast 4,290,595 Turnout 92.55% –0.09%
Informal votes 137,260 Informal 3.20% +0.43%
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes  % Swing Seats Change
  Template:Australian politics/name/Liberal NSW 1,602,457 38.58 +11.64 51 +29
  Template:Australian politics/name/Labor NSW 1,061,352 25.55 –13.43 20 –32
  Template:Australian politics/name/Nationals NSW 521,864 12.56 +2.51 18 +5
  Greens 427,144 10.28 +1.33 1 +1
  Independent 367,493 8.85 –0.33 3 –3
  Christian Democrats 129,431 3.12 +0.65 0 0
  Family First 18,576 0.45 +0.45 0 0
  Other 25,018 0.60 0 0
Total 4,153,335     93  
Two-party-preferred
  Coalition 2,324,226 64.22 +16.48
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor NSW |  Template:Australian politics/name/Labor NSW 1,294,824 35.78 –16.48
Popular vote
Liberal
  
 38.58%
Labor
  
 25.55%
National
  
 12.56%
Greens
  
 10.28%
Independent
  
 8.85%
Christian Democrats
  
 3.12%
Family First
  
 0.45%
Others
  
 0.60%
Two-party-preferred vote
Coalition
  
 64.22%
Labor
  
 35.78%
Seats
Liberal
  
 54.84%
Labor
  
 21.51%
National
  
 19.35%
Independent
  
 3.23%
Greens
  
 1.08%

Upper house

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See also: Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2011–2015

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See also: Results of the 2011 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council)
Legislative Council election, 2011[4][5][6]
Party Votes  % won Swing 2011 seats 2007 seats Total seats Change
Liberal/National Coalition 1,943,246 47.7 ↑13.5 11 8 19 ↑4
Labor Party 967,242 23.7 ↓15.4 5 9 14 ↓5
Greens 453,125 11.1 ↑2.0 3 2 5 ↑1
Shooters and Fishers Party 150,741 3.7 ↑0.9 1 1 2 0
Christian Democratic Party 127,233 3.1 ↓1.3 1 1 2 0
Other 434,437 10.7 ↑0.3 0 0 0 0
Total 4,076,024     21 21 42  

Seats changing hands

Seat Pre-2011 Swing Post-2011
Party Member Margin Margin Member Party
Balmain   Labor Verity Firth 3.7 –7.2 3.5* Jamie Parker Greens  
Bathurst   Labor Gerard Martin 13.0 –36.7 23.7 Paul Toole National  
Blue Mountains   Labor Phil Koperberg 11.1 –15.8 4.7 Roza Sage Liberal  
Camden   Labor Geoff Corrigan 3.9 –22.8 18.9 Chris Patterson Liberal  
Campbelltown   Labor Graham West 18.5 –21.9 3.4 Bryan Doyle Liberal  
Charlestown   Labor Matthew Morris 14.6 –24.5 9.9 Andrew Cornwell Liberal  
Coogee   Labor Paul Pearce 7.2 –15.4 8.2 Bruce Notley-Smith Liberal  
Dubbo   Independent Dawn Fardell 0.9 –14.6 13.7 Troy Grant National  
Drummoyne   Labor Angela D'Amore 7.6 –24.3 16.7 John Sidoti Liberal  
East Hills   Labor Alan Ashton 14.1 –14.7 0.6 Glenn Brookes Liberal  
Gosford   Labor Marie Andrews 4.9 –16.7 11.9 Chris Holstein Liberal  
Granville   Labor David Borger 11.1 –13.7 2.6 Tony Issa Liberal  
Heathcote   Labor Paul McLeay 8.8 –21.4 12.7 Lee Evans Liberal  
Kiama   Labor Matt Brown 12.0 –19.5 7.5 Gareth Ward Liberal  
Londonderry   Labor Allan Shearan 6.9 –19.2 12.3 Bart Bassett Liberal  
Maitland   Labor Frank Terenzini 9.7 –16.0 6.3 Robyn Parker Liberal  
Menai   Labor Alison Megarrity 2.7 –27.1 24.4 Melanie Gibbons Liberal  
Miranda   Labor Barry Collier 0.8 –21.8 21.0 Graham Annesley Liberal  
Monaro   Labor Steve Whan 6.3 –8.3 2.0 John Barilaro National  
Mulgoa   Labor Diane Beamer 11.1 –23.2 12.0 Tanya Davies Liberal  
Newcastle   Labor Jodi McKay 1.2 –3.6 2.4 Tim Owen Liberal  
Oatley   Labor Kevin Greene 14.4 –14.9 0.5 Mark Coure Liberal  
Parramatta   Labor Tanya Gadiel 13.7 –25.8 12.1 Geoff Lee Liberal  
Port Macquarie   Independent Peter Besseling 28.2** –35.1 6.9 Leslie Williams National  
Riverstone   Labor John Aquilina 10.1 –30.3 20.2 Kevin Conolly Liberal  
Rockdale   Labor Frank Sartor 10.3 –13.9 3.6 John Flowers Liberal  
Smithfield   Labor Ninos Khoshaba 15.5 –20.3 4.8 Andrew Rohan Liberal  
Strathfield   Labor Virginia Judge 15.1 –19.3 4.3 Charles Casuscelli Liberal  
Swansea   Labor Robert Coombs 10.8 –11.9 1.1 Garry Edwards Liberal  
Tamworth   Independent Peter Draper 4.8 –12.5 7.8 Kevin Anderson National  
The Entrance   Labor Grant McBride 4.9 –17.3 12.5 Chris Spence Liberal  
Wollondilly   Labor Phil Costa 3.3 –18.0 14.7 Jai Rowell Liberal  
Wyong   Labor David Harris 6.9 –9.4 2.5 Darren Webber Liberal  
  • *Figure is Greens vs Liberal
  • **Figure is from the 2007 state election, where Rob Oakeshott was the independent candidate.
  • In addition, the Liberals retained Ryde and Penrith, which were gained from Labor at by-elections.
  • Members in italics did not contest their seat at this election.

Background

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See also: Post-election pendulum for the New South Wales state election, 2007
File:NSW Election Map pre-2011.png
New South Wales electorates by party before the election
File:NSW Election Map 2011.png
New South Wales electorates by party after the election

The centre-left Labor Party, led by Premier Kristina Keneally, and the centre-right Liberal Party, led by Leader of the Opposition Barry O'Farrell, were the two main parties in New South Wales. In the 2007 state election, of 93 seats total, Labor won 52 seats, the Liberals won 22 seats and the Nationals, led by Andrew Stoner, who are in coalition with the Liberals, won 13 seats. Six seats were retained by independents. Smaller parties which hold no seats in the lower house but achieved significant votes in 2007 include The Greens and the Christian Democratic Party.

On 18 October 2008, four state electorates (Lakemba, Ryde, Cabramatta, Port Macquarie) went to by-elections as a result of the resignation of the Premier, two of his ministers, and an independent who left after winning a federal by-election. The results in Ryde, Cabramatta, and Lakemba showed the largest by-election swing against Labor in its history.[7] The results showed a significant swing towards the Liberal Party with a swing of 22.7 percentage points in former health minister Reba Meagher's seat of Cabramatta, but it was retained by ALP candidate Nick Lalich,[7] and a swing of 13 points against Labor in former premier Morris Iemma's seat of Lakemba, also retained by an ALP candidate, Robert Furolo.[7] Ryde, once a safe Labor seat, with a swing of 23.1 points delivered former deputy premier John Watkins' seat to Victor Dominello. Peter Besseling, the independent candidate, won Port Macquarie, left vacant after the resignation of Nationals-turned-independent member Rob Oakeshott, over the Nationals by a two-party margin of 54.5–45.5%, despite a swing of 23.7 points to the Nationals. On 19 June 2010 a by-election in the electoral district of Penrith[8] was triggered as a result of the resignation of Labor Party MP Karyn Paluzzano, with Liberal candidate Stuart Ayres winning the seat with a two-party-preferred swing of more than 25 points, the biggest swing against an incumbent government in New South Wales history, until the 2013 Miranda by-election which eclipsed it with a 26-point two-party swing against the Liberal/National government.[9]

Key dates

  • Expiry of 54th Parliament: 12am on Friday, 4 March 2011
  • Issue of Writs: 5 March 2011
  • Close of Nominations: 10 March 2011
  • Polling Day: Saturday 26 March 2011
  • Return of the Writs: 30 April 2011[10]
  • Meeting of 55th Parliament: By Monday, 16 May 2011

Campaign

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See also: Candidates of the 2011 New South Wales state election

The Labor Party launched their campaign on 5 February 2011[11] in Liverpool within the electoral district of Macquarie Fields.[12] Premier Keneally launched the Labor Party's campaign slogan "Protecting jobs – Supporting families". In attendance for the launch were former Prime Minister Bob Hawke and former Premiers Wran and Carr.

The Liberal and Nationals Coalition launched their campaign on 20 February 2011 at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith within the electoral district of Penrith with the slogan: "Real Change for NSW". In attendance for the launch were both Liberal and Nationals Leaders O'Farrell and Stoner as well as federal Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott, former Liberal Premiers and Leaders Greiner, Fahey, and Chikarovski.[13]

The Coalition had been leading in opinion polling for almost three years, and were unbackable favourites throughout the campaign to win the election. The final Newspoll had support for Labor at an all-time low with 23 percent of the primary vote and 35.9 percent of the two-party vote. Bookmakers were paying $1.01 for a Coalition win with Labor getting as much as $36 and one agency even paid out the winnings and declared the winner a week earlier.[14] At one point, Labor was widely predicted to win as few as 13 seats, seven less than the actual result.[15] According to several pollsters, Labor was in danger of losing several seats where it had not been seriously threatened in decades, as well as several that it had held for a century or more. Indeed, there were concerns that Labor would not win enough seats to form a credible shadow cabinet.

Resulting parliament

The Liberal/National Coalition won the largest proportional number of seats in NSW state history with 69 of 93 seats in the lower house (74.2 percent of the chamber)—in contrast, Labor won 69 of 99 seats (69.7 percent of the chamber) at Neville Wran's second "Wranslide" in 1981 election. Labor won 20 seats, the lowest for Labor in NSW Parliament in over a century, and the worst defeat that a sitting government in NSW has ever suffered. Many prominent Labor MPs and ministers lost their seats including Verity Firth, David Borger, Matt Brown, Jodi McKay, Virginia Judge, Phil Costa and Kevin Greene.[16] In the process, the Coalition took dozens of seats in areas considered Labor heartland, such as western Sydney and the Upper Hunter—some on swings of well over 10 per cent. The Liberals actually won 51 seats, enough for a majority in their own right—the first time the main non-Labor party in the state had achieved this since adopting the Liberal banner in 1945. Although O'Farrell thus had no need for the support of the Nationals, he opted to retain the Coalition.

In the upper house however, where half of the chamber was up for election, the landslide was not enough to deliver a Coalition majority. Three additional votes outside of the Liberal/National Coalition were required to pass legislation. The balance of power shifted from the Greens to the Shooters and Fishers Party and Christian Democratic Party. With two seats each held by the latter two parties, both needed to give legislative support if Labor and the Greens opposed legislation.[4][5]

Retiring members

Where a Member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council did not renominate to contest the election, their term ended at the dissolution of the parliament. Members who confirmed their retirement were:

Legislative Assembly

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Labor (22)

Liberal (5)

Nationals (2)

Legislative Council

Labor (4)

Greens (1)

Polling

Newspoll polling is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes consist of around 1200–1300 electors. The declared margin of error is ±3 percentage points.

Better Premier ratings
Date Labor
Keneally		 Liberal
O'Farrell		 Uncommitted
2011 election – – –
21–24 March 2011 32% 48% 20%
9–11 March 2011 35% 48% 17%
Jan–Feb 2011 32% 47% 21%
Nov–Dec 2010 35% 40% 25%
Sep–Oct 2010 35% 42% 23%
Jul–Aug 2010 39% 39% 22%
May–Jun 2010 44% 36% 20%
Mar–Apr 2010 45% 30% 25%
Jan–Feb 2010 40% 31% 29%
Nov–Dec 2009 35% 34% 31%
Sep–Oct 2009 31%2 36% 33%
Jul–Aug 2009 32%2 33% 35%
May–Jun 2009 33%2 32% 35%
Mar–Apr 2009 33%2 31% 36%
Jan–Feb 2009 34%2 29% 37%
Nov–Dec 2008 30%2 33% 37%
Sep–Oct 2008 35%2 28% 37%
Jul–Aug 2008 32%1 39% 29%
May–Jun 2008 32%1 39% 29%
Mar–Apr 2008 36%1 33% 31%
Jan–Mar 2008 37%1 30% 33%
2007 election – – –
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.
1 Morris Iemma, 2 Nathan Rees
Legislative Assembly opinion polling
Primary vote 2PP vote
Date ALP LIB NAT GRN OTH ALP L/NP
2011 election 25.6% 38.6% 12.6% 10.3% 13.0% 35.8% 64.2%
21–24 March 2011 23% 41% 9% 12% 15% 35.9% 64.1%
9–11 March 2011 26% 43% 7% 11% 13% 37% 63%
Jan–Feb 2011 23% 40% 6% 17% 14% 38% 62%
Nov–Dec 2010 24% 40% 5% 15% 16% 39% 61%
Sep–Oct 2010 23% 41% 5% 17% 14% 37% 63%
Jul–Aug 2010 25% 41% 5% 14% 15% 39% 61%
May–Jun 2010 25% 41% 5% 16% 12% 39% 61%
Mar– Apr 2010 31% 37% 5% 14% 13% 45% 55%
Jan–Feb 2010 30% 39% 3% 12% 14% 43% 57%
Nov–Dec 2009 26% 39% 5% 17% 13% 41% 59%
Sep–Oct 2009 30% 36% 6% 12% 16% 45% 55%
Jul–Aug 2009 32% 37% 4% 14% 13% 46% 54%
May–Jun 2009 31% 36% 5% 14% 14% 45% 55%
Mar–Apr 2009 33% 36% 4% 13% 14% 47% 53%
Jan–Feb 2009 30% 38% 4% 15% 13% 44% 56%
Nov–Dec 2008 26% 38% 5% 14% 17% 41% 59%
Sep – Oct 2008 29% 38% 4% 11% 18% 44% 56%
Jul–Aug 2008 33% 36% 4% 13% 14% 48% 52%
May–Jun 2008 32% 36% 5% 13% 14% 48% 52%
Mar–Apr 2008 35% 35% 3% 14% 13% 51% 49%
Jan–Mar 2008 34% 34% 5% 14% 13% 50% 50%
2007 election 39.0% 26.9% 10.1% 9.0% 15.0% 52.3% 47.7%
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.

Newspaper endorsements

Newspaper Endorsement
The Australian style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)" | [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/shortname]][17]
The Australian Financial Review style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)" | [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/shortname]][citation needed]
Newcastle Herald style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)" | [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/shortname]][citation needed]
The Daily Telegraph style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)" | [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/shortname]][18]
The Sydney Morning Herald style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)" | [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Template:Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)/meta/shortname]][19]

See also

References

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