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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales
Eastern Sydney: Botany, Coogee, Maroubra, Mascot
Sitting member: Hon Matt Thistlethwaite (Labor), Senator 2011-13, elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 108,701
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.7%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.7%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Hon Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party |
2. James MacDonald
Australian Greens |
3. Andrew Weatherstone
Australian Christians |
4. Dr Michael Feneley
Liberal Party |
5. Andrea Leong
Science Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Kingsford Smith (until 2001 spelled Kingsford-Smith) was created in 1949, originally based on the beachside suburbs around Coogee, but expanding south to Maroubra and west to Mascot at successive redistributions. Originally a middle-class marginal, it became a safe Labor working-class seat in the 1960s and '70s. Since the 1980s it has become increasingly wealthy and multicultural, and now has a median family income level and a proportion of people in professional occupations in the top 25% of electorates. It also has the very low levels of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased typical of inner-city seats.
The social change in this area has not much changed the seat's politics, however: it remains a fairly safe Labor seat. Labor's strongest areas are in Kensington and Randwick, while there are pockets of Liberal strength in Coogee and Kensington. Members for Kingsford Smith have included Labor luminaries Lionel Bowen (Deputy Prime Minister in the Hawke government), Laurie Brereton, (Cabinet minister in the Keating government), and rock-star-turned-politician Peter Garrett, who had an unhappy time as a minister in the Rudd- Gillard Government. Garrett resigned in 2013 rather than serve under the second Rudd regime, and retired at the 2013 election.
Matt Thistlethwaite, MP for Kingsford Smith since 2013, was an industrial officer with the Australian Workers' Union and deputy secretary of Unions NSW before being elected to the Senate in 2010. He was a parliamentary secretary in the last year of the Rudd-Gillard Government. In 2013 he transferred to the House, retaining Kingsford Smith for Labor by a narrow margin. He is now shadow parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs and for immigration. The seat has not been changed by the 2016 redistribution.
The Liberal candidate is Dr Michael Feneley, a cardiologist.
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