Daley had initially indicated that he would stay on as leader despite the loss. Title [2011 NSW State election campaign - Australian Internet sites] [electronic resource] Item identifier. 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The NSW Electoral Commission also governs the elections of councillors to commercial and other regulatory bodies aside from local and State government elections. At the 2015 election, the Coalition retained government with a reduced majority of 54 seats from 69 seats in the 2011 election. This should be an encouragement for the federal election in the seat of Robertson as the LNP vote was down by 7.5 per cent. Post-election pendulum for the 2019 New South Wales state election, Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group), "Koala bill causes NSW Government crisis as Gladys Berejiklian warns John Barilaro Nationals ministers will be booted from cabinet", "Report of the Electoral Districts Redistribution Panel on the draft determination of the names and boundaries of electoral districts of New South Wales", "Libs 37, Labor 23.9, Nats 3.1, 4.3 PHON, SFFP 0.8, Greens 6.7, Indi 5.3, 18.9 not sure. Despite this, it singled out the Labor Opposition for not having "done enough to atone for the sins of its recent history" of corruption. View election results for the 2019 NSW State election. The main Opposition Labor Party under Michael Daley won an increased share of the vote in most districts, though the party was unable to successfully gain support in key marginal electorates. Labor, and to a larger extent the Coalition, both suffered primary vote swings against them. Berejiklian was also unable to clarify whether motorists would be charged a toll to travel on the M4 from Parramatta to Penrith. In the 2018 Wagga Wagga by-election, independent candidate Joe McGirr won the seat, previously held by the Liberal Party. [37], The seat of Wollondilly was vacated following the resignation of Liberal MP Jai Rowell on 17 December 2018.[38]. Compared with results from 2015 election. When questioned on Labor's planned TAFE funding increase, Daley struggled to provide a precise figure before openly blurting out a figure of $3 billion, which drew laughter from the audience and an immediate "No!" Liberal/National coalition. Date created. [4], It was the first time that the Coalition won a third consecutive term in office in New South Wales since the 1971 state election. The centre-right government in New South Wales state won re-election at the weekend, providing a badly needed boost for conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he heads into a … [21], Labor's preference deals with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party was criticised by Premier Berejiklian, who suggested that a Labor government supported by the Shooters could lead to looser gun laws. Despite a final week of gaffes, insults and confusion, the NSW election campaign offered few surprises — until the Coalition enjoyed a better-than-expected result on the night. The only gain came from the Animal Justice Party. Liberal Gladys Berejiklian was re-elected as NSW Premier on Saturday night, and looks set to form a majority government, although three crucial seats are still in doubt. This page was last edited on 15 March 2021, at 00:24. In the course of the previous parliamentary term, the Coalition had been reduced to 61 seats due to ICAC proceedings that resulted in the departure of eight MPs from the Liberal Party. The election will be conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC). The ReachTEL poll on 10 September 2018 includes 5.9% of undecided voters. The two-term incumbent Liberal/National Coalition Government led by Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy Premier John Barilaro was re-elected to a third four-year term with a reduced majority in the Legislative Assembly, where government is formed. Michael Daley seized on the apparent popularity of the anti-stadium movement to call the election a "referendum on stadiums", as well as touring a "campaign bus" with the slogan "Schools & Hospitals Before Stadiums" on the side. All states and territories have fixed-term election dates, except for Tasmania. Daley committed to spending $2.7 billion over ten years to fund public schools, recruiting 5,000 new teachers and aiming to make New South Wales the first state to commit to the Gonski school funding model. It called for stability of leadership after a decade of instability, recommending to voters that they "should give the Government the opportunity to see through the transformation of our state". The YouGov-Galaxy poll on 28–29 November 2018 includes 5% of undecided voters. from the Premier. According to section 28 of the Constitution Act 1934 (SA) a general election of members of the House of Assembly must be held on the third Saturday in March every four years unless this date falls on the day after Good Friday, occurs within the same month as a general election of members of the Commonwealth House of Representatives or the conduct of the election could be adversely affected by a state … A $1 billion water fund was announced for the purpose of upgrading water infrastructure and protecting the water supply of regional communities, particularly in times of drought. The ReachTEL poll on 29 November 2018 includes 3.1% of undecided voters. The minority Liberal Party-led Coalition government of Premier John Fahey was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Bob Carr. [16][17], On 19 March, a September 2018 video surfaced in which opposition leader Daley made negative comments about Asian immigration in Sydney: "Our young children will flee and who are they being replaced with? * Remainder were "uncommitted" or "other/neither". NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay would lose her own seat and the party would suffer its worst primary vote in almost 120 years if a state election … Deputy leader Penny Sharpe served as interim leader of the party in the intervening period. The Australian Electoral Commission holds current electoral rolls for the whol… It contrasted this against Daley, where "questions linger over whether he and his team are ready to govern, partly because of how recently he was thrust into the job, partly because of past connections to tainted figures in the last Labor government and partly of his own making". Minor parties the Greens and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, as well as several independent MPs, also contested the election. Every office holds a copy of the current Australian Electoral Roll. The Coalition won eight seats, Labor seven, the Greens and One Nation each picked up two seats, whilst the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and Animal Justice Party claimed one seat each. Under the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the related state laws, voting is compulsory in Commonwealth, state and territory elections. 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Labor’s primary vote sits at 36%, according to the Essential survey, up from 34.1% at the last election, while the Coalition’s primary vote is 39%, down from 45.6% in 2015. [4], 17 parties are registered with the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).[5]. The election will be conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC). The Greens strengthened their hold on the three seats they held prior to the election while the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers held onto Orange, a seat the party had won from the Nationals at a by-election, while also taking Barwon and Murray from the Nationals. The state constitution requires the Electoral Commission to review electoral district boundaries after every two elections, to ensure that the number of voters in each district is within 10 per cent of the "quotient" – the number of voters divided by the number of Legislative Assembly seats. Berejiklian became the first woman to lead a party to a state election victory in New South Wales, as well as the third woman to lead a party to a victory at a state election in Australia (after Queensland's Anna Bligh and Annastacia Palaszczuk) and the first non-Labor woman to do so.[5][6]. Election day is Saturday 23 March 2019 For all information on electoral enrolment, when and how to vote, visit the NSW Electoral Commission . [2011 NSW State election campaign - Australian Internet sites] [electronic resource] Publisher [N.S.W. Persons elected to the Legislative Assembly In most of these, the party holding the seat did not change. In Gosford, voters made the Central Coast a safe Labor seat with a swing of 8.5 per cent after preferences. However, the party only managed to gain two seats from the Coalition, Coogee from the Liberals and Lismore from the Nationals. She also pledged to build or upgrade 29 hospitals and clinics state-wide, including redevelopments of the Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital and John Hunter Hospital at a cost of $1.3 billion and $780 million, respectively. The 2023 New South Wales state election will be held on Saturday 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. [35], Labor leader Michael Daley said the party's head office, instead of the leader's, would decide preference deals on a "seat-by-seat basis". Despite a state-wide swing of more than 9 per cent toward Labor, Mike Baird's Coalition has retained government in New South Wales with a strong margin following the weekend's state election. Political parties, elected members, candidates, groups of candidates, associated entities, and third-party campaigners for NSW State and local government elections have until 28 January to submit a disclosure form. SFF held 1 seat at the dissolution of parliament following the, Combined vote totals of Building Australia and the Motorist Party, of which Advance Australia is a merger, Preference allocation based on previous election. Another $917 million was pledged for the construction of eight new schools and the upgrade of 31 others. In the 2016 Orange by-election, Philip Donato of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party won the seat, previously held by the Nationals. "[14], The Labor Party campaign was launched by Opposition Leader Michael Daley on 10 March. [4] One Nation's lead candidate Mark Latham, who led the Labor Party to defeat at the 2004 federal election, was elected to the Council. 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In November 2020, the proposed redistribution names and boundaries was released to the public for submission. The Labor Party won 36 seats, an increase of two seats. The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) Virtual Tally Room (VTR) contains results for the 2019 Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council Elections. Sampling sizes usually consist of over 1200 electors. Ms Berejiklian earlier conceded the NSW election will be tight as she seeks to become the state’s first ever popularly-elected female premier. The projected population quotient in 2023 was 59,244, meaning that each district needed to have between 53,319 and 65,168 enrolled electors.[3]. The Labor Party lost two seats, bringing their total down to 12; the Greens, Shooters and Fishers, and Christian Democrats saw no gains or losses in the election: these parties won five seats, two seats and two seats, respectively. The NSW Electoral Commission look for staff to work as election officials during the election period. Following a controversy surrounding koala policy, on 10 September 2020, Nationals leader John Barilaro announced his party would no longer support government legislation and sit on the crossbench, while still holding ministerial positions. All proposed abolished, created or renamed districts are within Sydney. NSW Labor has decided to delay choosing a new state opposition leader until after the federal election, partly because the party has committed … The New South Wales Legislative Council (the Upper House) consists of 42 Members who represent the whole state in Parliament. The event was attended by federal Labor leader and Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten, as well as former New South Wales Premiers Kristina Keneally, Bob Carr, and Barrie Unsworth. There were two exceptions to this. The Coalition held 51 seats at the dissolution of parliament following the, Compared with results at 2015 election. The 2019 New South Wales state election was held on Saturday 23 March 2019 to elect the 57th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council.The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).. On 9 March, Labor unveiled its plan for a "war on waste", seeking to ban single-use plastic bags, phase out single-use plastic, and reduce waste and create jobs by investing $140 million in recycling initiatives. [90], All four weekday newspapers endorsed the Liberal/National Party Coalition over the Labor Party. Carr went on to become the longest continuously-serving premier in the state's … [1] However, it took a further two full days of official vote counting by the electoral commission before the ABC election computer was able to project that the Coalition had retained majority government. The video is suggested to have ultimately cost Labor potential victory in a number of key seats in Sydney with large proportions of voters from Asian backgrounds. Lord Howe Island Board Election - 18 Feb 2021 2021 Election of four board members ; Public Service Association of NSW - 07 Apr 2021 2021 Election of executive officers and delegates; Fire Brigade Employees' Union Election - 29 Apr 2021 Election of the Committee of Management; See all current elections arrow_forward [2] Ultimately, the Coalition won 48 seats (35 Liberal, 13 National), suffering a loss of six seats from the 2015 election, providing the incumbent government with a slim two-seat majority. rubio@coast March 25, 2019 at 2:17 am. The 2019 New South Wales state election was held on Saturday 23 March 2019 to elect the 57th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. [31] Subjects discussed included the demolition of the Sydney Football Stadium, cost of living in Sydney, transportation, infrastructure, and the Murray–Darling basin. 50 favoured Berejiklian, while 25 favoured Daley; a further 25 were undecided. The candidates for a Legislative Council election are presented in a state-wide ballot.The method of voting for the Legislative Council is known as optional preferential proportional representation. However, facing the prospect of a leadership spill, Daley announced several days after the election that he would stand down as leader and not contest a subsequent leadership election, to be held after the federal election in May. PANDORA electronic collection. The Labor-held district of Lakemba is proposed to be abolished and largely replaced by the adjacent Bankstown. [33][34], In February 2019, it was reported that Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and Pauline Hanson's One Nation sent preferences each other's way in the upper house. New South Wales has compulsory voting, with optional preferential voting in single-member seats for the lower house and single transferable vote with optional preferential above-the-line voting in the proportionally represented upper house. There is an Australian Electoral Commission office in every electoral division in Australia. The next federal election is also not fixed, although a half-Senate election must be held by June 30, 2022, so a House and Senate election is most likely to be held between August 2021 and May 2022. NSW STATE ELECTION RESULTS 2019 Saturday, 23 March 2019. ABC election analyst Antony Green called the election for the Coalition at about 8:15pm, over two hours after the 6:00pm close of polling booths. At the 2019 election, the Coalition won a third term in government for the first time since 1971 while Gladys Berejiklian became the first woman in New South Wales to lead a party to a state election victory. In 2020, the Commission began work on determining new boundaries for the 2023 election, a process commonly known as "redistribution". [23], In light of the National Party's preference deal with the Liberal Democrats, Labor leader Daley accused Berejiklian of hypocrisy for criticising Labor's preference deals with the Shooters Party while her own coalition partner offered preferences to the Liberal Democrats, whose platform includes even more extreme positions on gun laws than the Shooters. Compared with results at 2015 election. The incumbent Liberal government planned to continue with the demolition of the Sydney Football Stadium and, if re-elected, to replace it with a new $730 million venue. [26] The Labor Party oppose the demolition. [28], Pauline Hanson's One Nation under the leadership of Mark Latham ran on a platform which opposed immigration, congestion, overdevelopment and renewable power, and proposed DNA tests for Aboriginal welfare recipients[29] and banning the burqa in government buildings. [30], The first debate of the campaign was held on 8 March on the ABC. The NSW Electoral Commission is planning delivery of the 2021 NSW Local Government election so that voters, political participants and election staff remain as safe as possible. Persons elected to the Legislative Council. * Indicates a combined Liberal/National primary vote. [32], A second debate was held on 20 March on Sky News featuring Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Opposition Leader Michael Daley, moderated by David Speers. [4] The result left the Berejiklian Government needing at least five votes to pass legislation, up from the two they needed in the previous Council. Welcome to the NSWEC VTR for the NSW State Election 2019. Members who chose not to renominate for the 2019 election were as follows: The parliament has fixed four-year terms with the election held on the fourth Saturday in March,[52] though the Governor may dissolve the house sooner on the advice of the Premier. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian won the state election based on merit Gladys Berejiklian’s political journey has been one to watch and it’s Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten who should be paying attention. The NSW Electoral Commission is currently looking for people to apply to work at the NSW State Election. [27] The issue was thrust into the limelight by Peter FitzSimons, a local media figure, who remarked that he believed that the Government would not win the election unless they cancelled the stadium rebuild. I could've expressed myself better, no offence was meant. [3], A number of Liberal-held districts are proposed to be renamed, to reflect the population centre in the district’s proposed boundaries:[3], The Liberal-held Heathcote is proposed to take in parts of the Illawarra from the Labor-held Keira and become a notionally marginal Labor seat. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC). [24], 18 parties were registered with the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC). [22], The National Party made preference deals with the Liberal Democrats and Christian Democratic Party in the Legislative Council, suggesting that voters give them second and third preferences respectively. New South Wales has compulsory voting, with optional preferential voting in single-member seats for the lower house and single transferable vote with optional preferential above-the-line voting in the proportionally represented upper house. * Indicates a combined Liberal/National primary vote. [96], State election for New South Wales, Australia in March 2019. [97], The Green Left Weekly endorsed Socialist Alliance. [95] The Red Flag endorsed voting for both Socialist Alliance and the Greens.