Electoral district of Summer Hill

Summer Hill New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location within Sydney
State	New South Wales
Created	2015
MP	Jo Haylen
Party	Australian Labor Party
Electors	54,174 (2015)
Area	15.9 km^2 (6.1 sq mi)

Summer Hill is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Jo Haylen of the Labor Party.

Summer Hill is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner west centred on the suburb of Summer Hill from which it takes its name. It also includes the suburbs of Ashbury, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Haberfield, Lewisham and Marrickville.^[1]

Summer Hill is one of two new electorates (the other being Newtown) created in place of the abolished Marrickville for the 2015 state election. It takes its territory from areas previously belonging to the districts of Balmain, Canterbury, Marrickville and Strathfield.

Members for Summer Hill

Member		Party	Term
	Jo Haylen	Labor	2015–present

Election results

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Jo Haylen	20,370	43.3	+1.5
	Greens	Max Phillips	12,856	27.3	+3.0
	Liberal	Julie Passas	11,216	23.8	−4.4
	No Land Tax	Don Tauriello	855	1.8	+1.8
	Christian Democrats	Kylie French	799	1.7	−0.3
	Socialist Alliance	Susan Price	694	1.5	+1.5
		James Cogan	287	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			47,077	96.7	+0.5
Informal votes			1,625	3.3	−0.5
Turnout			48,702	89.9	−1.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jo Haylen	28,608	70.1	+7.5
	Liberal	Julie Passas	12,183	29.9	−7.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Jo Haylen	22,148	60.5	−2.1
	Greens	Max Phillips	14,440	39.5	+2.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.1

References

1. "Map of electorate of Summer Hill" (PDF). NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
2. State Electoral District of Summer Hill: First Preference Votes, NSWEC.
3. State Electoral District of Summer Hill: Distribution of Preferences, NSWEC.

External links

• "Summer Hill". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 April 2015.