Electoral district of Strathfield

Strathfield New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location within Sydney
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1988–present
MP	Jodi McKay
Party	Australian Labor Party
Area	22.80 km2 (8.8 sq mi)

Strathfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Jodi McKay of the Labor Party. It was first created in 1988 and derives its name from the suburb of the same name.

Strathfield is an urban electorate, covering 19 km² and taking in the suburbs of Burwood Heights, Burwood, Burwood Heights, Croydon, Croydon Park, Enfield, Flemington, Homebush, Homebush West, North Strathfield, Strathfield, Strathfield South and parts of Ashbury, Ashfield, Belfield and Concord West.

History

Strathfield was created in 1988. While traditionally a marginal electorate, Strathfield tended to favour the Liberal Party of Australia in its earlier years. It was first won by Liberal Paul Zammit, who later went on to have a short-lived career as a Liberal member of the federal House of Representatives. Zammit later contested the federal seat as an independent on the issue of airports and air traffic over the area. Zammit was succeeded by Liberal Bruce MacCarthy, who was defeated after one term. His successor, Paul Whelan, was a prominent sitting minister in the Carr government who had shifted to Strathfield from the abolished seat of Ashfield, and subsequently served as Police Minister while the member for Strathfield. The seat has tended to lean towards Labor ever since, with Whelan being succeeded by Virginia Judge. Judge lost the seat in 2011 to Liberal candidate Charles Casuscelli, but he was in turn defeated by Labor's Jodi McKay in 2015.

Members for Strathfield

Member		Party	Term
	Paul Zammit	Liberal	1988–1996
	Bruce MacCarthy	Liberal	1996–1999
	Paul Whelan	Labor	1999–2003
	Virginia Judge	Labor	2003–2011
	Charles Casuscelli	Liberal	2011–2015
	Jodi McKay	Labor	2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Strathfield

New South Wales state election, 2015: Strathfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Casuscelli	19,884	42.7	−5.1
	Labor	Jodi McKay	19,721	42.4	+7.4
	Greens	Lance Dale	4,292	9.2	−1.9
	Christian Democrats	David Brook	1,573	3.4	+0.0
	No Land Tax	Stephen Chehab	1,092	2.3	+2.3
Total formal votes			46,562	96.8	+0.1
Informal votes			1,523	3.2	−0.1
Turnout			48,085	90.7	+2.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jodi McKay	22,371	51.8	+8.2
	Liberal	Charles Casuscelli	20,829	48.2	−8.2
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.2