Dubbo is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was first created in 1894, abolished in 1904, and then recreated in 1930. Dubbo is a regional electorate, deriving its name from the town of the same name, covering 16,454.32 km² and encompassing the towns of Dubbo, Parkes, Narromine and Wellington as well as a variety of rural villages. There were 43,533 people enrolled within the electorate as of April 1999.
Dubbo has been generally conservative leaning throughout its history, with the Country/National and Liberal parties holding it for most of its lifetime. This grew stronger during the 1980s and 1990s, and the seat was widely seen as National Party heartland until 1999, when Dubbo became one of a number of key National Party seats to fall to rural independents, with the narrow victory of Tony McGrane. He was returned with a much larger majority at the 2003 election, and when he died in 2004, was replaced by another independent, Dawn Fardell, who won the resulting by-election.
It appears likely that future contests in Dubbo will remain between the National Party and independent candidates; while the Australian Labor Party did manage to hold Dubbo for three short stints between the 1930s and 1950s, they have not held the seat since 1959, and show no sign of doing so in the foreseeable future; the party did not even field a candidate at the 2004 by-election.
According to the report for the 2004 redistribution of electoral districts, it is estimated that the electoral district will have 48,373 electors on 29 April 2007.[1] At the 2007 election it will include the City of Dubbo (including Dubbo), most of Narromine Shire (including Narromine), Parkes Shire (including Parkes, Peak Hill, Alectown, Bogan Gate, Trundle and Tullamore), Forbes Shire (including Forbes) and part of Cabonne Shire (including Canowindra and Eugowra).[2]
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Members for Dubbo
| First incarnation (1895—1904) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| James Morgan | Protectionist | 1894—1895 | |
| Simeon Phillips | Free Trade | 1895—1901 | |
| Liberal Reform | 1901—1904 | ||
| Second incarnation (1930—present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Alfred McClelland | Labor | 1930—1932 | |
| George Wilson | Country | 1932—1942 | |
| Clarrie Robertson | Labor | 1942—1950 | |
| Robert Medcalf | Country | 1950—1953 | |
| Clarrie Robertson | Labor | 1953—1959 | |
| Leslie Ford | Liberal | 1959—1964 | |
| John Mason | Liberal | 1965—1981 | |
| Gerry Peacocke | National | 1981—1999 | |
| Tony McGrane | Independent | 1999—2004 | |
| Dawn Fardell | Independent | 2004—present | |
Election results
| New South Wales state election, 2007: Dubbo | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National | Greg Matthews | 18,702 | 42.6 | -1.2 | |
| Independent | Dawn Fardell | 18,296 | 41.7 | +8.0 | |
| Labor | Adrian Hough | 4,889 | 11.1 | -4.6 | |
| Greens | Jan McDonald | 1,074 | 2.4 | -0.3 | |
| Christian Democrats | Michael Sichel | 952 | 2.2 | +2.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 43,913 | 97.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 988 | 2.2 | |||
| Turnout | 44,901 | 94.2 | |||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Independent | Dawn Fardell | 20,584 | 50.9 | +0.6 | |
| National | Greg Matthews | 19,877 | 49.1 | -0.6 | |
| Independent hold | Swing | +0.6 | |||
References
- ^ "Redistribution Commissioners' Report" (PDF). Election Funding Authority of New South Wales. 21 December 2004. http://efa.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/2105/pagesivtovii300.pdf. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "Dubbo Electoral District (new boundaries)". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/dubbo. Retrieved 2006-11-28.
External links
- "State Electoral District - Dubbo By-election Results 2004". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/dubbo/results/2004_byelection. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
- "State Electoral District - Dubbo Results 2007". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/lapreferential.dubbo.aspx. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
- "State Electoral District - Dubbo Results 2003". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/dubbo/results/2003. Retrieved 2007-01-21.
- "State Electoral District - Dubbo Results 1999". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/election_results/district_index/dubbo/results/1999. Retrieved 2007-01-21.
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