Electoral district of Strathfield

Location within Sydney

Strathfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was first created in 1988, and derives its name from the suburb of the same name. Strathfield is an urban electorate, covering 17.94 km² and taking in the suburbs of Strathfield, Homebush, Burwood, Burwood Heights, Enfield, Croydon, Ashfield and Summer Hill. There were 44,861 people enrolled within the electorate as of April 1999.

Strathfield, while traditionally a marginal electorate, 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 and unremarkable career as a Liberal member of the federal House of Representatives. Zammit later contested the federal seat as an independent and was badly defeated 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 then Judge being defeated at the 2011 State election by Liberal and current member Charles Casuscelli.

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—present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Strathfield

New South Wales state election, 2011: Strathfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Casuscelli	20,001	45.6	+16.3
	Labor	Virginia Judge	15,581	35.6	-16.6
	Greens	Lance Dale	5,805	13.2	+3.9
	Christian Democrats	Bill Shailer	1,268	2.9	-0.4
	Independent	Mark Sharma	1,173	2.7	+2.7
Total formal votes			43,828	97.3	0.0
Informal votes			1,209	2.7	0.0
Turnout			45,037	91.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Charles Casuscelli	21,487	54.4	+19.5
	Labor	Virginia Judge	18,014	45.6	-19.5
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+19.5

External links

• "Strathfield". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2011-10-03.