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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Whitlam, New South Wales

Named for: Hon Gough Whitlam (1916-2014): federal MP 1952- 78, Prime Minister 1972-75

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South of Sydney: Albion Park, Bowral, Dapto, Moss Vale, Shellharbour

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Enrolment at 2019 election: 118,815
Enrolment at 2022 election: 125,393 (+05.7)

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1999 republic referendum: No 53.1
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 62.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 70.6

Sitting member: Hon Stephen Jones (Labor): Elected (for Throsby) 2010, 2013, (for Whitlam) 2016, 2019, 2022 Assistant Treasurer Minister for Financial Services

2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 23.5% *
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.1% *
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.8% *
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.7%
2019 Labor majority over Nationals: 10.9%
2022 Labor majority over Nationals: 10.1%
2025 notional Labor majority over Nationals: 8.3%

* as Throsby

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Status: Fairly safe Labor

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Labor two-party vote 1984-2022

2022 results

Statistics and history

Announced candidates:

Hon Stephen Jones Australian Labor Party

Division of Whitlam

Whitlam was created by the 2016 redistribution, when the old seat of Throsby was renamed. Throsby was created in 1984, taking in the southern part of the Illawarra mining and industrial area, centered on Port Kembla, although Port Kembla itself is now back in Cunningham. Whitlam is centred on Woolongong suburbs such as Berkeley and Dapto, Shellharbour (transferred back from Gilmore), and inland towns such as Mittgong and Moss Vale. The inland areas are politically marginal, the rest of the seat solidly Labor.

Whitlam is a largely working-class seat, with a relatively low level of median family income, and low levels of university graduates and of people in professional and managerial employment. But like most regional working-class seats, it is largely monocultural, with no significant ethnic minorities and a low level of non English speaking households.

Stephen Jones, Labor MP for Throsby 2010-16 and for Whitlam since 2016, is a lawyer who was national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union before his election. He has been Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services since 2022.

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