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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Macquarie, New South Wales
Named for: Col Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), Governor of NSW 1809-21
West of Sydney: Emu Plains, Katoomba, Richmond, Springwood, Windsor
Enrolment at 2019 election: 107,962
Enrolment at 2022 election: 108,054 (+00.2)
1999 republic referendum: No 55.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 63.9
2023 Voice referendum: No 56.6
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.0%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 1.3%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.5%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.2%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 0.2%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.8%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 6.3%
Status: Marginal Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Susan Templeman
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Macquarie
Macquarie has existed since Federation, and from 1901 to 1977 it was a regional seat based on
Bathurst, Australia's oldest inland city. On these boundaries it was a Labor seat more often
than not - its most distinguished member was Labor Prime Minister
Ben Chifley. The 1977
redistribution made it a Blue Mountains and Penrith seat, and the 1984 redistribution removed
Penrith and added the Hawkesbury, a strong Liberal area. The 2007 redistribution turned it briefly back
into a Bathurst-based seat, but the 2010 redistribution reversed this change.
Macquarie has a high level of median family income and a fairly high proportion of people in
professional occupations, reflecting the popularity of the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury for
affluent exurbanites. It also has fairly high levels of families with dependent children and of
dwellings being purchased, making it to some extent a mortgage belt seat.
Macquarie is one of the most sharply polarised seats in Australia. The Liberals dominate
the Hawkesbury area around Richmond and Windsor, polling over 60% of the two-party vote in most booths, while
Labor wins every polling place in the Blue Mountains by wide margins, polling over 70% of the two-party vote
in Katoomba.
Kerry Bartlett won Macquarie in 1996 and was Government Whip in the Howard
Government. The 2007
redistribution rendered his position hopeless and he was defeated by
Bob Debus, a former long-serving
state MP and minister. Debus was a minister in the first Rudd government, but following the 2010
redistribution he retired, and the seat went to the Liberal
Louise Markus, who had been elected for
Greenway in
2004. She was a member of the Opposition Shadow ministry from 2007 to 2010 but was not promoted
during the Abbott-Turnbull Government. In 2016 she was defeated in that year's sharp swing to Labor in
western Sydney.
Susan Templeman, Labor MP for Macquarie since 2016, also contested the seat in 2010 and 2013. She is
a former journalist who ran a media training consultancy. In 2019 she suffered a 2% swing and was nearly
defeated, but she bounced back in 2022 and won comfortably. The 2024 redistribution has weakened her position by adding Liberal-inclined
Emu Plains.
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
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