Electoral district of Penrith

Penrith New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location within Sydney
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1973–present
MP	Stuart Ayres
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Penrith
Electors	54,184 (2015)
Area	75.61 km^2 (29.2 sq mi)

Penrith is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It has been represented by Stuart Ayres of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 by-election. It was a safe Labor seat for most of its history before 2010, but Ayres won the 2010 by-election with a swing of 25.7 percent--at the time, the biggest swing against a sitting government in New South Wales history.

Penrith includes the suburbs of Penrith, Emu Heights, Emu Plains, Glenbrook, Jamisontown, Lapstone, Lemongrove, Leonay, South Penrith and parts of Blaxland, Caddens, Cambridge Park, Castlereagh, Cambridge Gardens, Cranebrook, Kingswood and Werrington.^[1]

Members for Penrith

Member		Party	Term
	Ron Mulock	Labor	1973–1981
	Peter Anderson	Labor	1981–1988
	Guy Matheson	Liberal	1988–1991
	Faye Lo Po'	Labor	1991–2003
	Karyn Paluzzano	Labor	2003–2010
	Stuart Ayres	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

New South Wales state election, 2015: Penrith^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Stuart Ayres	21,712	45.6	−8.7
	Labor	Emma Husar	15,632	32.9	+7.0
		Jackie Kelly	4,272	9.0	+9.0
	Greens	Mark O'Sullivan	2,633	5.5	−3.7
	Christian Democrats	May Spencer	1,856	3.9	−1.7
	No Land Tax	Angelo Pezzano	949	2.0	+2.0
		Victor Waterson	322	0.7	+0.7
		Carolyn Kennett	202	0.4	+0.4
Total formal votes			47,578	96.0	+0.2
Informal votes			1,995	4.0	−0.2
Turnout			49,573	91.5	−0.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Stuart Ayres	23,212	56.2	−9.9
	Labor	Emma Husar	18,061	43.8	+9.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	−9.9

References

1. "Penrith". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
2. State Electoral District of Penrith: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
3. State Electoral District of Penrith: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.

External links

• "Penrith". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 April 2015.