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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales
Named for: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), pioneer aviator
Eastern Sydney: Botany, Brighton-le-Sands, Eastlakes, Kensington, Maroubra
Enrolment at 2019 election: 111,170
Enrolment at 2022 election: 115,299 (+03.7)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 55.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 64.1
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 55.6
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Sitting member: Hon Matt Thistlethwaite (Labor): Senator 2011-13. Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Assistant Minister for Immigration
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.3%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.2%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.7%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.6%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.8%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.5%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 13.3%
Status: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Kingsford Smith
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 and managerial 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 Eastlakes 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 Assistant Minister for Immigration. The 2024 redistribution
has extened the seat down the western shore of Botany Bay and slightly weakened Labor's position.
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
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