DIVISION OF GRAYNDLER

The 'Division of Grayndler' is an Australian Electoral Division in inner Metropolitan Sydney, New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Edward Grayndler (1867-1943), a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1921 to 1934 and 1936 to 1943, and General Secretary of the Australian Workers Union from 1912 to 1941. It is Australia's second-smallest electorate, covering an area of just 29.3 square kilometres in the inner-southern Sydney metropolitan area, including parts of the inner-west, and today takes in the suburbs of Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown and Petersham. Containing manufacturing and service industries and engineering works, it was originally a solidly working-class area. Although migration and gentrification have since radically changed its demography, it has always been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, currently enjoying a margin of 22.6%, the safest Federal Labor margin in the country. The seat has for a number of years maintained the strongest vote in the country for the Greens, currently at 21.1%, and until 2001 had a strong Democrat vote as well.
Its most prominent member has been Fred Daly, who was a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government. Daly was succeeded by Gough Whitlam's son, Tony Whitlam, who served only one term before losing his Labor preselection. According to the ABC, "When Graham Richardson resigned from the Ministry over the Marshall Islands affair before the 1993 election, left-wing power-broker Anthony Albanese organised for Jeannette McHugh to replace him in the Ministry. Being a Minister entitled her to a seat, and as her own seat of Phillip had been abolished, she moved to Grayndler, forcing Leo McLeay to move to the neighbouring seat of Watson. Having delivered the seat to the left, Albanese was rewarded with pre-selection in 1996, winning despite a high profile campaign by No Aircraft Noise, ^[1] and is still the sitting MP today.

Contents

Members

Election results

Suburbs totally or partially covered

References

Previous election results (external links)

External links

Notes

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Fred Daly	Labor	1949—1975
	Tony Whitlam	Labor	1975—1977
	Frank Stewart	Labor	1977—1979
	Leo McLeay	Labor	1979—1993
	Jeannette McHugh	Labor	1993—1996
	Anthony Albanese	Labor	1996—present

Election results

Suburbs totally or partially covered

★ Annandale

★ Ashbury

★ Ashfield

★ Camperdown

★ Canterbury

★ Croydon Park

★ Dulwich Hill

★ Enmore

★ Haberfield

★ Hurlstone Park

★ Leichhardt

★ Lewisham

★ Lilyfield

★ Marrickville

★ Newtown

★ Petersham

★ St Peters

★ Stanmore

★ Summer Hill

★ Sydenham

★ Tempe

References

★ Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive

★ The Poll Bludger

★ ABC Elections

★ Australian Electoral Commission

Previous election results (external links)

★ 2001 Election Results

★ 1998 Election Results

★ 1996 Election Results

★ 1993 Election Results

★ 1990 Election Results

★ 1987 Election Results

★ 1984 Election Results

★ 1983 Election Results

★ 1980 Election Results

★ 1977 Election Results

★ 1975 Election Results

★ 1974 Election Results

★ 1972 Election Results

★ 1969 Election Results

★ 1966 Election Results

★ 1963 Election Results

★ 1961 Election Results

★ 1958 Election Results

★ 1955 Election Results

★ 1954 Election Results

★ 1951 Election Results

★ 1949 Election Results

External links

★ Australian Electoral Commission Electorate Boundary Map

Notes

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