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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Farrer, New South Wales
Southern New South Wales: Albury, Balranald, Deniliquin, Griffith
Sitting member: Hon Sussan Ley (Liberal), elected 2001
Enrolment at close of rolls: 111,466
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 17.3%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 21.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Ron Pike
Australian Liberty Alliance |
2. Amanda Cohn
Australian Greens |
3. Paul Rossetto
Christian Democrats |
4. Brian Mills
Independent |
5. Hon Sussan Ley
Liberal Party |
6. Christian Kunde
Australian Labor Party |
7. Trevor O'Brien
Mature Australia |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Farrer was created in 1949, as a rural seat in southern NSW based on Albury and Wagga Wagga, both Liberal strongholds - the Liberal Party was founded in Albury in 1944. In 1984 it was extended westwards along the Murray to the South Australian border, and Wagga Wagga was removed, and on these boundaries it was won by the National Party, although the Liberals reclaimed it in 2001. The 2006 redistribution changed the seat again, extending it northwards to the Queensland border, and including the mining centre of Broken Hill, a Labor bastion for more than a century. The inclusion of Broken Hill reduced the Liberal majority in Farrer considerably, but not enough to put the seat at risk.
The 2016 redistribution has again changed the seat, removing Broken Hill and extending it north-eastwards to take in Griffith and Narrandera, so that it now has more of the Riverina in it than the seat of Riverina does. The effect has been to increase the Liberal majority to 21.8%. Members for Farrer have included Liberal ministers Sir David Fairbairn and Wallace Fife, and National Party Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer. Every member for Farrer has been a Cabinet minister.
Sussan Ley (pronounced Lee), Liberal MP for Farrer since 2001, was an air traffic controller, commercial pilot and a wool and beef farmer before her election. She was a parliamentary secretary in the last term of Howard Government, and again in the Abbott Government, and has been Minister for Health, for Sport and for Aged Care since September 2015. This seat is very safe for her, but on these boundaries it might revert to the Nationals when she retires.
The Labor candidate is Christian Kunde, a medical student.
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