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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Reid, New South Wales
Inner western Sydney: Concord, Drummoyne, Lidcombe, Strathfield
Sitting member: Hon Craig Laundy (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,496
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 00.8%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 3.4%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Marylou Carter
Family First |
2. Hon Craig Laundy
Liberal Party |
3. Angelo Tsirekas
Australian Labor Party |
4. Ju Kang
Christian Democrats |
5. Alice Mantel
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Reid was created in 1922, and for most of its history it occupied a block of western suburban Sydney, based on the working-class suburbs of
Granville and Auburn. Successive redistributions expanded the seat somewhat without changing its character. But the 2010 redistribution
shifted the seat eastwards following the abolition of Lwe, adding Concord and Drummoyne while losing Granville, and becoming a marginal
seat for the first time. In fact, the seat had more Lowe voters than Reid voters, and was only called Reid to preserve the name of a former
Prime Minister. As a result of this change, the Liberals won Reid for the first time at the 2013 election.
The old Reid was one of Australia's most heavily multi-cultural seats, with a very low level of median family income, and a high proportion
of families with dependent children. But the new Reid has a much older and more middle-class demographic profile, taking in old established
upper-income areas such as Concord.
Reid has been held by a succession of Labor luminaries, including NSW Premier Jack Lang, Whitlam Government Minister Tom Uren and Laurie
Ferguson, who was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Rudd Government. In 2010 Ferguson contested Werriwa so that John Murphy, Labor MP for Lowe,
could stand in Reid. Murphy won easily in 2010, but was defeated on a large swing to the Liberals in 2013.
Craig Laundy, Liberal MP for Reid since 2013, comes from a prominent family of Sydney hoteliers, and worked for his family business before
entering politics. A moderate Liberal, he is a favourite of Prime Minister Turnbull. In February 2016 Turnbull appointed him Assistant Minister
for Multicultural Affairs.
The 2016 redistribution has removed most of Auburn from the seat and added parts of Strathfield and Burwood, increasing the Liberal majority from
0.8% to 3.4%. Given that Laundy now has the advantage of incumbency, Labor is unlikely to defeat him unless there is a big swing against the
government in NSW. The Labor candidate is Angelo Tsirekas, Mayor of Canada Bay, and an environmental health and building surveyor.
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