Electoral district of Albury

Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently held by Gregory Aplin.

Albury has generally been considered as a heartland seat for the conservative parties, and the Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors have held the seat for almost all of its history. While there have been several instances of the Australian Labor Party breaking the conservative hold on the seat, these have typically been short-lived and have occurred only at the peak of a popular government. There has been only one major exception to this: former Albury mayor Harold Mair won the seat for Labor in 1978 and held it for a decade before being swept away in the landslide Labor defeat of 1988. The Albury electorate has since reverted to its traditional tendencies - the current Liberal member, Greg Aplin, was returned with more than 60% of the vote in 2003, and Labor finished fourth behind Aplin and two independents. It is thus likely that the main potential concern for Liberal candidates in Albury in the immediate future will come from rural independent candidates^{[citation needed]}.

Albury includes both urban and rural areas, covering 5,778.53 km². There were 42,635 people enrolled within the electorate as of April 1999. The 2004 redistribution of electorates estimated that the electorate would have 48,988 electors on 29 April 2007. Albury currently encompassed the local government areas of the City of Albury (including Albury), Greater Hume Shire (Culcairn and Holbrook), Corowa Shire (Corowa and Howlong) and Tumbarumba Shire (Tumbarumba) and a small part of Tumut Shire (Cabramurra).

History

Albury was first created in 1880 from part of Hume and is named after the city of Albury. In 1920, Albury, Wagga Wagga and Corowa was absorbed into Murray and elected four members under proportional representation. At the end of proportional representation in 1927, Albury was recreated.

Members

Election results

External links

• "Albury Electoral District (new boundaries)". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/albury. Retrieved 2006-12-05. 
• "State Electoral District - Albury Results 2007". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/lapreferential.albury.aspx. Retrieved 2007-05-02. 
• "State Electoral District - Albury Results 2003". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/albury/results/2003. Retrieved 2007-01-23. 
• "State Electoral District - Albury Results 1999". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/albury/results/1999. Retrieved 2007-01-23.