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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Chifley, New South Wales
Named for: Rt Hon Ben Chifley (1885-1951), federal MP 1928-31, 1940-
51, Prime Minister 1945-49, Leader of the Opposition 1949-51
North-western Sydney: Dharruk, Marayong, Marsden Park, Mt Druitt, Rooty Hill
Enrolment at 2019 election: 112,069
Enrolment at 2022 election: 121,280 (+08.3)
1999 republic referendum: No 57.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: No 58.7
2023 Voice referendum: No 59.6
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Sitting member: Hon Ed Husic (Labor): Elected 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Minister for Industry and Science
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 20.7%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.3%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 10.6%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 19.4%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.5%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 13.7%
Status 2022: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Chifley
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 one of the lowest proportion of people in professional
and managerial occupations of any electorate in Australia, nearly half (47.3%) of its population live in non English
speaking households, and it has the highest proportion (4%) of Indigenous people of any urban electorate.* All these
factors make Chifley a safe seat for the Labor Party. It has not been significantly changed by the 2024 redistribution.
As with several other 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 was 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 Minister for Industry and Science.
* Blacktown was originally called Blacks Town and was the site of an internment camp and school for Sydney-area Aboriginal
people.
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