Division of Greenway

Greenway Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Greenway (green) in New South Wales
Created:	1984
MP:	Louise Markus
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	Francis Greenway
Electors:	88,213
Area:	2,886 km² (1,114 sq mi)
Demographic:	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Greenway is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1984 and is named for Francis Greenway, an ex-convict who became a prominent architect in colonial Sydney. The seat was traditionally centred on the Blacktown district, but after the distribution it is mainly located the North-west/Hawkesbury region of Sydney and takes in suburbs such as Stanhope Gardens, Quakers Hill, Windsor and Riverstone.

For most of its history, Greenway was a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party. However, demographic changes in the areas north of Blacktown resulted in a shift away from Labor at the 2001 election. At the 2004 election this trend continued and the seat was won by the Liberal Party following the retirement of the sitting MP and an extensive Liberal campaign. Louise Markus, a Pentecostal social worker and member of Hillsong Church, defeated Ed Husic, a former political advisor and a non-practicing Muslim, to take the seat by a small margin of 0.6%. A large Informal vote of 11.83%, the highest in the 2004 election contributed to this result. On September 13, 2006, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the seat would be redistributed. The Hawkesbury area towns moved to Greenway from the Division of Macquarie, and lost traditional Labor-voting areas such as Blacktown, Dean Park, Lalor Park and Seven Hills as well as the Liberal-leaning areas of Kings Langley and Seven Hills North. This boosted the notional Liberal majority to 11.7%, making it on paper a safe Liberal seat. However, the margin dropped to 4.7% as of the 2007 federal election, when it experienced a 6.9% swing towards Labor and became a marginal Liberal seat.

Following the 2009 redistribution of NSW, Greenway's geography changed dramatically. Under redistribution, the seat of Greenway has lost a major portion of the Liberal voting Hawkesbury region including the cities of Richmond and Windsor. In return, Greenway gained the Labor voting suburbs of Toongabie, Seven Hills and Pendle Hill^[1]. Following the redistribution, the seat is now notionally Labor held on a margin of 5%.^[2]

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References

• Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive
• The Poll Bludger
• ABC Elections
• Australian Electoral Commission
• Current AEC Divisional Profile