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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Richmond, New South Wales
Named for: Richmond River (named by Captain John Rous in 1828, after Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond.)
Northern New South Wales: Ballina, Brunswick Heads, Byron Bay, Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads
Enrolment at 2019 election: 119,446
Enrolment at 2022 election: 118,638 (-00.7)
1999 republic referendum: No 53.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 67.9
2023 Voice referendum: No 56.1
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Sitting member: Hon Justine Elliot (Labor): Elected 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Assistant Minister for Social Services
Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence
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2007 Labor majority over Nationals: 8.9%
2010 Labor majority over Nationals: 7.0%
2013 Labor majority over Nationals: 3.0%
2016 Labor majority over Nationals: 4.0%
2019 Labor majority over Nationals: 4.1%
2022 Labor majority over Nationals: 8.2%
2025 notional Labor majority over Nationals: 8.2%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Justine Elliot
Australian Labor Party |
Mandy Nolan
Australian Greens |
Division of Richmond
Richmond has existed since Federation, occupying the north-eastern corner of NSW against the Queensland
border. For most of its history it was a safe seat for the Country Party and its heir the Nationals,
but from the 1980s rapid urbanisation of the coastal strip has caused the seat to be sharply reduced
in size and changed in character, and made it politically marginal. Richmond has one of the lowest
levels of median family income of any electorate, because of its population mix of retirees, hippies
and low-paid tourism and service workers. Richmond has also been colonised by affluent urban refugees,
as is shown by its fairly high rate of people in professional occupations. Only 6% of Richmond's workforce
works in agriculture, which is why the Nationals have lost their grip on a seat which the Country Party
held from 1922 to 1990.
Richmond was dominated for many years by the Anthony family, until 2022 the only three-generation dynasty in the
history of the House of Representatives.
Larry Anthony senior was a minister in the 1940s
and '50s, his son Doug was Leader of the Country Party and
twice Deputy Prime Minister, and Doug's son
Larry was a minister in the Howard government until
his defeat in 2004. Between Doug and the younger Larry, the seat was held for a time by
Charles Blunt, who was briefly leader of the Nationals.
Since 2004 the Nationals have not looked like regaining what was once one of their safest seats.
Justine Elliot, Labor MP for Richmond since 2004, was a
police officer and state public servant before her election. She was a minister and a parliamentary secretary in the
Rudd-Gillard Government, but was dropped in early 2013. She staged a comback after the 2022 election and is now Assistant
Minister for Social Services and Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence.
Labor now has a two-party majority of 8.2%, and there doesn't seem much likelihood of the Nationals regaining this seat.
The Greens are a more serious threat: they won the state seat of Ballina in 2015 and polled 25.3% in Richmond in 2022.
The Greens candidate is again Mandy Nolan, a Mullumbimby comedian, journalist and author.
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