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Division of Lindsay | Lingiari |
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Location: Sydney: Emu Plains, Glenmore Park, Penrith, St Marys Division named for: Sir Norman Lindsay, painter and author Median weekly family income: $1,074 (37th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 11.4% (67th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 17.7% (132nd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 7.7% (135th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 41.8% (34th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 34.8% (24th highest) Sitting member: David Bradbury (Labor), elected 2007 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 01.6 1996 by-election two-party majority: Liberal 06.6 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 01.3 Effect of 2001 redistribution: 01.0 shift to Liberal 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 05.5 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 05.3 Effect of 2006 redistribution: 02.4 shift to Labor 2007 notional two-party majority: Liberal 02.9 2007 two-party majority: Labor 06.8 
2004 enrolment: 82,793 2007 enrolment: 90,349 (+09.1%) (new boundaries) Lindsay was created in 1984, taking in a stretch of Sydney's outer western suburbs based on Penrith. The seat was one of the most commonly associated with the "Howard battlers": upwardly-mobile skilled workers and contractors with aspirations to join the middle class. The presence of this class in Lindsay can be seen in the relatively high level of median family income, compared with the very low proportion of people in professional occupations. Lindsay is also a mortgage belt seat, with high proportions of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased. Lindsay was held by Labor's Ross Free, formerly member for Macquarie, and a junior minister in the Keating government, until the 1996 Liberal landslide, when he was defeated by Jackie Kelly with an 11% swing. Kelly was a junior minister under Howard but stood down from the ministry after the 2001 election and retired in 2007. The seat was weakened for the Liberals both by the 2006 redistribution and by Kelly's retirement, and the Liberals further harmed their chances by a clumsy attempt to link Labor to radical Muslims by distributing bogus flyers. The result was a 9.7% swing, giving an easy win to Labor's David Bradbury. Labor polled 69% of the two-party vote at St Marys North, and also exceeded 65% at Claremont Meadows, St Marys and Wherrington. The Liberals polled 68% at Orchard Hills. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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