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Division of Chifley | Chisholm |
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Location: Sydney: Blacktown, Doonside, Mt Druitt, Rooty Hill Division named for: Rt Hon Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia 1945-49 Median weekly family income: $915 (73rd highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 28.3% (17th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 14.2% (150th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 7.5% (137th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 44.1% (23rd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 31.9% (37th highest) Sitting member: Hon Roger Price (Labor), elected 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 26 November 1945, Sydney. Career: Account Manager, Telecom Australia. Alderman, Blacktown City Council 1981-87. Deputy Mayor 1984-85. Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister 1991, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence 1991-93. Chief Opposition Whip 2004-07. Chief Government Whip since 3 December 2007 1996 two-party majority: Labor 14.5 1998 two-party majority: Labor 20.9 Effect of 2001 redistribution: 00.4 shift to Labor 2001 two-party majority: Labor 15.3 2004 two-party majority: Labor 13.0 Effect of 2006 redistribution: 00.9 shift to Liberal 2007 notional two-party majority: Labor 12.1 2007 two-party majority: Labor 20.7 
2004 enrolment: 84,413 2007 enrolment: 92,506 (+09.6%) (new boundaries) Chifley was created in 1969, in Sydney's fast-growing and heavily working-class western suburbs, based on Blacktown. Its character has not changed since its creation: it has the lowest proportion of people in professional occupations of any electorate in Australia, a quarter of its population were born in non English speaking countries, and it has the highest proportion (3.1%) of Indigenous people of any urban electorate. All these factors make Chifley a very safe seat for the Labor Party. Roger Price has held the seat since 1984. Price was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Hawke and Keating governments, and has been Chief Government Whip since 2007. At 62 he is the longest-serving Labor member in the Parliament. In 2007 there was a massive 8.7% swing to Labor, and Labor won every booth, all but one with more than 60% of the two-party vote. The Labor vote topped 80% of the two-party vote at Bidwill and Madang. The Liberals managed 40% only at Lawson Park. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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