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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Shortland, New South Wales
Named for: Lt John Shortland (1769-1810), explorer of the Hunter region
North Central New South Wales: Belmont, Cardiff, Charlestown, San Remo, Swansea
Enrolment at 2019 election: 114,194
Enrolment at 2022 election: 116,245 (+02.0)
1999 republic referendum: No 54.6
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 67.7
2023 Voice referendum: No 61.6
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Sitting member: Hon Pat Conroy (Labor): Elected (for Charlton) 2013, (for Shortland) 2016, 2019, 2022
Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery
Minister for International Development and the Pacific
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.7%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.9%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.2%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.9%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.8%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 5.8%
Status: Marginal Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
Announced candidates:
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Hon Pat Conroy
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Division of Shortland
Shortland was created in 1949, based in the southern and western suburbs of Newcastle. Subsequent
redistributions have extended the seat southwards to take in the mining and retirement communities around
Lake Macquarie and Tuggerah Lake. These communities are popular retirment areas and have a high proportion of
people over 65. This helps explain the seat's low level of median family income. It also has a low
proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations and of families with dependent children. The seat has not
been changed by the 2024 redistribution.
Shortland has always been fairly safe for Labor, although there was a substantial swing to the Liberals in
2019, and the seat is now classed as marginal. It was held by
Peter Morris, a minister in the Hawke
government, fromn 1972 to 1998. His successor,
Jill Hall, was Deputy Labor Whip. She retired in 2016.
Pat Conroy, Labor MP for the abolished seat of
Charlton 2013-16 and for Shortland since 2016, worked
for both the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union
as an organiser and policy officer. He was also an adviser to several Labor MPs, including his predecessor as
MP for Charlton,
Greg Combet. He is now Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery,
and Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
2022 results
Statistics and history
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