Division of Greenway

Greenway Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Greenway in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1984
MP	Michelle Rowland
Party	Australia Labor Party
Namesake	Francis Greenway
Electors	104,410 (2016)
Area	81 km² (31.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Greenway is an Australian electoral division in the state of 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 division is located in the west and north-west suburbs of Sydney, traditionally been north and east portions of the Blacktown district. It currently also includes small portions of Holroyd and Parramatta Council areas. Suburbs and towns include Acacia Gardens, Girraween, Glenwood, Kellyville Ridge, Kings Langley, Kings Park, Lalor Park, Parklea, Seven Hills, Stanhope Gardens, and The Ponds; as well as parts of Blacktown, Pendle Hill, Prospect, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Rouse Hill, Schofields, Toongabbie, New South Wales, and Vineyard.

The current Member for Greenway, since the 2010 federal election, is Michelle Rowland, a member of the Australian Labor Party.

History

Volunteer-run sausage sizzle fundraiser at Metella Road Public School in Toongabbie at the 2016 election

For most of its history, Greenway was a safe seat for Labor. However, demographic changes in the areas north of Blacktown, specifically Kellyville Ridge, Stanhope Gardens and Glenwood, 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 member, Frank Mossfield and an extensive Liberal campaign. Louise Markus, a Pentecostal social worker and member of Hillsong Church, defeated Ed Husic, a former political adviser and a non-practising 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 the closeness of this result, the vast majority indicating a first preference for Louise Markus.

A redistribution of the seat ahead of the 2007 federal election resulted in the Hawkesbury area towns moving to Greenway from the Division of Macquarie, and the loss of 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, at the 2007 federal election, Markus suffered a 6.9% swing towards Labor that turned Greenway into a marginal Liberal seat.

The seat was redistributed again in 2009, causing a large change in its demographics. Under redistribution, most of the Hawkesbury region, including Richmond and Windsor, were shifted back to Macquarie. In return, it regained the Labor voting suburbs of Blacktown, Toongabbie, Seven Hills and Pendle Hill.^[1] Following the redistribution, the seat was notionally Labor held on a margin of 5%.^[2]

The division is a demographically diverse population that includes the working class suburbs of Blacktown, Lalor Park and Toongabbie which are Labor leaning, as well as the high income, Liberal leaning suburbs of Kellyville Ridge, Stanhope Gardens, Glenwood, The Ponds and Kings Langley.

Members

	Party	Term
Russ Gorman	Labor	1984–1996
Frank Mossfield	Labor	1996–2004
Louise Markus	Liberal	2004–2010
Michelle Rowland	Labor	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Greenway

Australian federal election, 2016: Greenway^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Michelle Rowland	43,722	49.08	+4.60
	Liberal	Yvonne Keane	30,657	34.41	−5.55
	Christian Democrats	Aaron Wright	4,484	5.03	+1.27
	Greens	Chris Winslow	3,351	3.76	+0.11
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Mak	2,923	3.28	+3.28
	Independent	Avtar Singh Billu	1,749	1.96	+1.96
	Family First	Rohan Salins	1,273	1.43	+1.43
	Science	Vivek Singha	924	1.04	+1.04
Total formal votes			89,083	92.44	+2.42
Informal votes			7,282	7.56	−2.42
Turnout			96,365	92.29	−0.29
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Michelle Rowland	50,163	56.31	+3.33
	Liberal	Yvonne Keane	38,920	43.69	−3.33
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.33

References

↑ "Greenway: Proposed boundaries" (PDF map). NSW redistribution. Australian Electoral Commission. 2009.
↑ http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2009/08/federal-redistribution-nsw-draft-electoral-boundaries.html#more
↑ Greenway, NSW, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Greenway - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales

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Coordinates: 33°43′59″S 150°54′47″E / 33.733°S 150.913°E / -33.733; 150.913

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