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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Greenway, New South Wales
Named for: Francis Greenway (1777-1837), emancipist architect
North-western Sydney: Glenwood, Kings Langley, Lalor Park, Rouse Hill, Stanhope Gardens
Enrolment at 2019 election: 110,343
Enrolment at 2022 election: 119,876 (+08.7)
1999 republic referendum: No 55.0
2018 same-sex marriage survey: No 53.6
2023 Voice referendum: No 57.0
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Sitting member: Hon Michelle Rowland (Labor): Elected 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Minister for Communications
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2007 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.5%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 0.9%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.0%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.3%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.8%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.5%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 8.0%
Status 2022: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1984-22
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Michelle Rowland
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Division of Greenway
Greenway was created in 1984, and on its original boundaries it was based on the Labor stronghold of
Blacktown, which made it a fairly safe Labor seat. On its current boundaries Greenway has a fairly high
level of median household income, and a high
proportion of households paying mortgages, making it a high-income mortgage belt seat. It has one of
the highest level of families with dependent children of any seat. It also has a high
level of non English-speaking households, and is notably becoming a centre of Indian immigration.
The rapid growth of new middle-class suburbs at the
western end of the seat in the 1990s weakened Labor's position. Labor neglected the seat, allowing old-style members
such as
Russ Gorman and
Frank Mossfield to represent it. In 2004 Labor's candidate was
Ed Husic, a Muslim
of Bosnian parentage. His candidature provoked an anonymous religious smear campaign which undoubtedly
cost Labor votes, and this, combined with the demographic erosion of Labor's position and the negative
impact of
Mark Latham's leadership, was enough to tip the seat to the Liberal candidate
Louise Markus.
The 2006 redistribution removed Blacktown from Greenway and extended the seat out into the affluent
Hawkesbury region, making it much safer for the Liberals. But the 2010 redistribution reversed this,
putting half of Blacktown back into the seat and turning it back into a Labor seat, though not as safe for
Labor as it once was. At the 2010 election Markus followed her Hawkesbury base into the seat of
Macquarie,
and Labor regained Greenway.
Michelle Rowland, Labor MP for Greenway since 2010, was a lawyer
and director of the Western Sydney Area
Health Service before her election. She is of part-Fijian descent. She was also a Blacktown City Councillor. She held Greenway with an
increased majorities 2022 but the 2024 redistribution has weakebed the seat for Labor. Rowland joined the Labor front bench in
2013 and is now Minister for Communications.
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
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