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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Reid, New South Wales
Named for: Rt Hon Sir George Reid (1845-1918), NSW MP 1880-1901,
Premier 1894-99, federal MP 1901-09, Prime Minister 1904-05.
Inner western Sydney: Concord, Drummoyne, Lidcombe, Silverwater, Strathfield
Enrolment at 2019 election: 108,964
Enrolment at 2022 election: 115,540 (+06.1)
1999 republic referendum: No 51.0
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 52.7
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 50.6
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 16.8%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.7%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.8%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.8%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 3.2%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal 5.2%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal 5.2%
Status: Marginal Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Sally Sitou
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Reid
Reid was created in 1922, and for most of its history it occupied a block of western suburban Sydney, based on
the working-class suburbs of Granville and Auburn. Successive redistributions expanded the seat somewhat without
changing its character. But the 2010 redistribution shifted the seat eastwards following the abolition of
Lowe,
adding Concord and Drummoyne while losing Granville, and becoming a marginal seat for the first time. In fact,
the seat had more Lowe voters than Reid voters, and was only called Reid to preserve the name of a former
Prime Minister. Lowe was the seat of Prime Minister
Bill McMahon.
As a result of this change, the Liberals won Reid for the first time at the 2013 election.
The 2016 redistribution removed most of Auburn from the seat and added parts of Strathfield and Burwood,
increasing the Liberal majority further. The seat has not been changed by the 2024 redistribution.
The old Reid was one of Australia's most heavily multi-cultural seats, with a very low level of median family
income, and a high proportion of families with dependent children. But the new Reid has a much older and more
middle-class demographic profile, taking in old established upper-income areas such as Concord.
The old Reid was held by a succession of Labor luminaries, including NSW Premier
Jack Lang, Whitlam Government
Minister
Tom Uren, and
Laurie Ferguson, who was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Rudd Government. In 2010 Ferguson contested Werriwa so that
John Murphy, Labor MP for Lowe, could stand in Reid. Murphy won easily in 2010, but was defeated on a large swing to the Liberals in 2013.
Craig Laundy, elected in 2013, was a moderate
Liberal and a strong supporter of Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull. Following Turnbull's demise, he announced that he would not stand again. The seat was then won by Dr Fiona Martin,
a child psychologist, who was in turn defeated at the 2022 election.
Sally Sitou, Labor MP for Reid since 2022, was a media adviser and
staffer for Jason Clare before her election. She is of Lao-Chinese descent.
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