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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Richmond, New South Wales
Northern New South Wales: Ballina, Byron Bay, Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads
Sitting member: Hon Justine Elliott (Labor), elected 2004
Enrolment at close of rolls: 112,820
2013 Labor majority over Nationals 3.0%
2016 notional Labor majority over Nationals 1.6%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Angela Pollard
Animal Justice Party |
2. Neil Smith
One Nation |
3. Dawn Walker
Australian Greens |
4. Hon Justine Elliott
Australian Labor Party |
5. Russell Kilarney
Christian Democrats |
6. Matthew Fraser
The Nationals |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Richmond has existed since Federation, occupying the north-eastern corner of NSW against the Queensland border. For most of its history it
was a safe seat for the Country Party and its heir the Nationals, but from the 1980s rapid urbanisation of the coastal strip has caused the
seat to be sharply reduced in size and changed in character, and made it politically marginal. Richmond has one of the lowest levels of
median family income of any electorate, because of its population mix of retirees, hippies and low-paid tourism and service workers. Richmond
has also been colonised by affluent urban refugees, as is shown by its fairly high rate of people in professional occupations. Only 6% of
Richmond's workforce works in agriculture, which is why the Nationals have lost their grip on a seat which the Country Party held from 1922
to 1990.
Richmond was dominated for many years by the Anthony family, the only three-generation dynasty in the history of the House of Representatives.
Larry Anthony senior was a minister in the 1940s and '50s, his son Doug was Leader of the Country Party and twice Deputy Prime Minister, and
Doug's son Larry junior was a minister in the Howard until his defeat in 2004. Since then the Nationals have not looked like regaining what was
once one of their safest seats.
Justine Elliot, Labor MP for Richmond since 2004, was a police officer and state public servant before her election. She was a minister and a
parliamentary secretary in the Rudd-Gillard Government, but was dropped in early 2013 and is now on the backbench. The Nationals candidate in
2016 will be Matthew Fraser, a food retailer.
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