Electoral district of Vaucluse

Vaucluse is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, located east of Sydney CBD. The electorate gets its name from the suburb of Vaucluse in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. Vaucluse is one of two original (post 1927 redistribution) electorates to have never been held by the opposing Labor party and always by the Liberal Party or its predecessors, the other district being Hornsby. It has been represented in the past by former Leaders of the Opposition Murray Robson and Peter Debnam of the Liberal Party.

Vaucluse
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
StateNew South Wales
Dates current1927–present
MPKellie Sloane
PartyLiberal Party
NamesakeVaucluse
Electors56,448 (2019)
Area24.62 km2 (9.5 sq mi)
DemographicInner-metropolitan
Electorates around Vaucluse:
North Shore North Shore Manly
Sydney Vaucluse Pacific Ocean
Heffron Coogee Pacific Ocean

Members for Vaucluse
Member Party Period
  William Foster United Australia 1927–1936
  Murray Robson Independent UAP 1936–1938
  United Australia 1938–1945
  Liberal 1945–1957
  Geoffrey Cox Liberal 1957–1964
  Keith Doyle Liberal 1965–1978
  Rosemary Foot Liberal 1978–1986
  Ray Aston Liberal 1986–1988
  Michael Yabsley Liberal 1988–1994
  Peter Debnam Liberal 1994–2011
  Gabrielle Upton Liberal 2011–2023
  Kellie Sloane Liberal 2023–present

Election results
See also: Electoral results for the district of Vaucluse
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Vaucluse.[edit]
2023 New South Wales state election: Vaucluse[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Kellie Sloane 24,184 50.1 −6.8
Independent Karen Freyer 8,236 17.1 +17.1
Labor Margaret Merten 7,336 15.2 +2.5
Greens Dominic Wy Kanak 5,632 11.7 −2.1
Liberal Democrats Gail Stevens 1,166 2.4 +2.4
Sustainable Australia Kay Dunne 863 1.8 +0.4
Animal Justice Edward Cameron 846 1.8 +0.4
Total formal votes 48,263 97.9 −0.3
Informal votes 1,055 2.1 +0.3
Turnout 49,318 83.1 −0.7
Notional two-party-preferred count
Liberal Kellie Sloane 26,574 65.6 −5.0
Labor Margaret Merten 13,960 34.4 +5.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Kellie Sloane 25,763 62.9 −6.5
Independent Karen Freyer 15,206 37.1 +37.1
Liberal hold  

References
  1. LA First Preference: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  2. LA Two Candidate Preferred: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  • "Vaucluse". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
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