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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of New England, New South Wales
Named for: New England region of NSW (named by John Oxley in 1818)
Northern New South Wales: Armidale, Glen Innes, Scone, Tamworth, Tenterfield
Enrolment at 2019 election: 111,979
Enrolment at 2022 election: 113,303 (+01.3)
1999 republic referendum: No 67.4
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 52.5
2023 Voice referendum: No 75.3
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Sitting member: Hon Barnaby Joyce (Nationals): Senator 2005-13. Elected 2013, 2016. Resigned 2017. Elected 2017 by-election, 2019, 2022
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2007 Independent majority over Nationals: 24.3%
2010 Independent majority over Nationals: 21.5%
2013 Nationals majority over Independent: 14.5%
2016 Nationals majority over independent: 8.5%
2017 by-election Nationals majority over Labor: 26.4%
2019 Nationals majority over independent: 14.4%
2022 Nationals majority over Labor: 16.4%
2025 notional Nationals majority over Labor: 15.2%
Status: Very safe Nationals
Nationals two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Barnaby Joyce
The Nationals |
Division of New England
New England has existed since Federation, and has changed very little in its boundaries or in its social and economic
character since. It has always occupied the New England plateau, based on Armidale and Tamworth, and since New England is
a major woolgrowing region it has always been a highly agricultural seat. It has the relatively low level of median
family income and the very low proportion of people in non English speaking households typical of rural seats, although
its proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations is higher than in most rural seats, possibly because of
the presence
of the University of New England and various regional government offices in Armidale.
New England has nearly always been a strongly conservative seat, and has elected a Labor member only twice, in 1906 and
1910. The farmers and woolgrowers of New England were among the earliest supporters of the Country Party, and the party
and its successors the Nationals held the seat continuously from 1919 to 2001. From 1963 to 1998 it was held by
Ian Sinclair, who was Nationals Leader from 1984 to 1989. The loss
of the seat in 2001 to an independent,
Tony Windsor, was therefore a great shock to the Nationals.
Tony Windsor was the independent state MP for Tamworth from 1991 and easily defeated the sitting National member for
New England when he decided to switch to federal politics. He was re-elected without difficulty until 2013, when he
retired and the seat was reclaimed by Barnaby Joyce for the Nationals.
Barnaby Joyce, Nationals MP for New England since 2013, was a
Senator for Queensland from 2005 to 2013, before changing both House and state at the 2013 election - the first member of the
federal Parliament to do both. The move was not as strange as it seemed. Joyce was born in Tamworth and went to university at
UNE, so he could claim local roots. He became Minister for Agriculture in 2013 and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
in 2015. In February 2016 he succeeded
Warren Truss as Leader of the Nationals and Deputy Prime Minister.
At the 2016 election Windsor again contested the seat, but Joyce was re-elected without difficulty. He then became Minister for
Infrastructure and Transport.
In October 2017 the High Court ruled that Joyce's election in 2016 had been invalid because he was a New Zealand citizen
by virtue of his father's birth in New Zealand. Joyce resigned his portfolios and successfully contested the December 2017
by-election. He returned to office, but was soon embroiled in scandal when it was revealed that he had separated from his
wife after fathering a child with a member of his staff. In February 2018 he resigned all his positions. He then spent the
next three years fomenting discontent with his successor as Nationals leader
Michael McCormack. In June 2021 he
sucessfully reclaimed the leadership from McCormack and once again became Deputy Prime Minister, and also
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Regional Development.
After the 2022 election Joyce was challenged for the Nationals leadeship and defeated by David Littleproud. He is now Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs. In
February 2024 Joyce was filmed while severely intoxicated in a Canberra street. He subsequently said that he has given up
alcohol.
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
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