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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Barton, New South Wales
Sitting member: Nickolas Varvakis (Liberal), elected 2013
Southern Sydney: Bexley, Earlwood, Hurstville, Rockdale
Enrolment at close of rolls: 106,566
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.3%
2016 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 4.4%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Rasmus Torkel
Independent |
2. Nickolas Varvakis
Liberal Party |
3. Hon Linda Burney
Australian Labor Party |
4. Sonny Susilo
Christian Democrats |
5. Brent Heber
Australian Greens |
6. Harry Tsoukalas
Online Direct Democracy |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Barton was created in 1922 in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and has been a very stable seat in terms of both its borders and its social composition.
It is relatively wealthy for a Labor-held seat, with a very high proportion of home-owners, its increasing strength for Labor being explained partly by its
high proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. The expansion of the seat to the north by recent redistributions has strengthened
Labor's position. The 2016 redistribution has made these characteristics even stronger by removing the more affluent suburbs along the Georges River.
Barton has usually been held by Labor, its most prominent member being Dr H.V. Evatt, External Affairs Minister under Curtin and Chifley and later
Opposition Leader. Robert McClelland, son of Whitlam government minister Senator Douglas McClelland, won the seat in 1996. McClelland was a minister
in the Rudd and Gillard governments, before retiring in 2013, when the seat fell to the Liberals.
Nickolas Varvaris, Liberal MP for Barton since 2013, was an accountant and twice Mayor of Kogarah before his election. His tenure seems likely to be a short
one, because the 2016 redistribution has removed Kogarah Bay, Sandringham and Sans Souci, the strongest Liberals booths in the seat, and added the Labor
strongholds of South Marrickville and Tempe, as well as some marginal territory around Hurstville. The result has been to turn a Liberal majority of 0.3% into
a Labor majority of 4.4%. Unless there is a strong swing to the Liberals in NSW it is hard to see Varvaris holding the seat.
The Labor candidate will be Linda Burney, who has been the MLA for Canterbury since 2003 and who was a minister in the last NSW Labor government from
2007 to 2011. If elected she will be the first Indigenous woman to sit in the House of Representatives.
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