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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Chifley, New South Wales
North-western Sydney: Arndell Park, Marayong, Mt Druitt, Rooty Hill
Sitting member: Hon Ed Husic (Labor), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 103,908
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 10.6%
2016 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 10.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Joshua Green
Christian Democrats |
2. Mohit Kumar
Liberal Party |
3. Ammar Khan
Independent |
4. Eliza James
Australian Greens |
5. Hon Ed Husic
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Chifley was created in 1969, in Sydney's fast-growing and heavily working-class western suburbs, based on Blacktown. Its character has not changed much 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.
As with several safe Labor seats in western Sydney, Chifley has been held mainly by backbenchers distinguished more for loyalty than for ability. Roger Price won the seat in 1984, and was a parliamentary secretary in the Hawke and Keating governments, and later Labor Chief Whip. He retired in 2010.
Ed Husic, Labor MP for Chifley since 2010, was national president of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union before his election. He was the Labor candidate for Greenway in 2014, and was subjected to an anonymous smear campaign based on the fact that he is a Muslim - he is the son of Bosnian immigrants, and the first Muslim to be a member of the Australian Parliament. He was a parliamentary secretary in the last months of the Rudd-Gillard Government. He is now shadow parliamentary secretary to the shadow treasurer.
The 2016 redistribution has made only minor changes to this seat, slightly increasing the Labor majority.
The Liberal candidate is Mohit Kumar, a former police prosecutor.
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Other seats of interest
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