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Wahroonga New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Created | 2023 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Alister Henskens | ||||||||||||||
Party | Liberal | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Wahroonga | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 58,521 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 50.28 km2 (19.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°43′44″S 151°6′36″E / 33.72889°S 151.11000°E | ||||||||||||||
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Wahroonga is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was contested for the first time at the 2023 election.[1]
It is an urban electorate on Sydney's upper North Shore.
Wahroonga was created as a result of the 2021 redistribution and largely replaced the abolished electorate of Ku-ring-gai. Based on the results of the 2019 election, it is a safe seat for the Liberal Party with an estimated notional margin of 19.0 percent.[2]
On its current boundaries, Wahroonga takes in the suburbs of Normanhurst, North Wahroonga, South Turramurra, Thornleigh, Wahroonga, Waitara, Warrawee, West Pymble, Westleigh and parts of Hornsby, Pennant Hills, Pymble and Turramurra.[3]
Member | Party | Term | |
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Alister Henskens | Liberal | 2023–present |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alister Henskens | 26,727 | 50.5 | −7.7 | |
Labor | Parsia Abedini | 12,242 | 23.1 | +3.9 | |
Greens | Tim Dashwood | 7,387 | 13.9 | +1.1 | |
Independent | Kristyn Haywood | 4,927 | 9.3 | +9.3 | |
Sustainable Australia | Stephen Molloy | 1,676 | 3.2 | +0.2 | |
Total formal votes | 52,959 | 97.9 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 1,116 | 2.1 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 54,075 | 91.5 | +2.5 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Alister Henskens | 28,940 | 60.6 | −8.4 | |
Labor | Parsia Abedini | 18,849 | 39.4 | +8.4 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | −8.4 |