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Newcastle New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1859–1894 1904–present
MP	Tim Crakanthorp
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Newcastle
Electors	59,443 (2023)
Area	121.22 km (46.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	32°55′S 151°45′E / 32.917°S 151.750°E / -32.917; 151.750
Electorates around Newcastle: Wallsend Port Stephens Port Stephens Wallsend Newcastle Pacific Ocean Charlestown Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean

Newcastle is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales named after and including Newcastle. It is represented since the 2014 Newcastle by-election by Tim Crakanthorp of the Australian Labor Party.

Geography

The district takes in the eastern part of the City of Newcastle, including the parts of the suburbs from Hexham to Mayfield lying to the east of the Main North railway line, Broadmeadow, Hamilton South, Merewether Heights and Merewether and the suburbs further east, including central Newcastle and Hamilton. It also includes the Port Stephens Council suburbs of Fern Bay and Fullerton Cove.

History

Newcastle was created in 1859 from part of North Eastern Boroughs. It gained a second member in 1880 and a third member in 1889. With the abolition of multi-member electorates in 1894, it was divided into Newcastle East, Newcastle West, Kahibah, Waratah and Wickham. These changes to the electoral boundaries were debated. Newcastle was re-created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum, which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90. It consisted of Newcastle East and part of Newcastle West. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, it absorbed Kahibah, Wallsend and Wickham and elected five members. With the end of proportional representation in 1927, Newcastle was split into the single-member electorates of Newcastle, Hamilton, Kahibah and Wallsend.

It has since been usually held by the Labor Party. This pattern was threatened in early 2007, when sitting member Bryce Gaudry lost his preselection to a former local newsreader, Jodi McKay. Gaudry opted to stand as an independent and as a consequence split the Labor Party's vote. Independent former Lord Mayor of Newcastle John Tate came close to winning the seat after preferences but McKay managed to hold on. Labor's previous margin of over 15% had been slashed to as little as 1.4%, making it one of Labor's most marginal seats.

At the 2011 New South Wales state election, Liberal Tim Owen defeated incumbent and one-term member McKay and popular Independent Tate, marking the first time the Liberals or their predecessors had won Newcastle as a single-member seat in over a century. This was one of many gains the Liberals made in what was previously Labor heartland.

Owen became an independent and moved to the crossbench on 6 August 2014 after accusations at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). He resigned from parliament on 12 August 2014 after evidence of corruption was uncovered. The Liberals opted not to contest the ensuing by-election, which saw Labor's Tim Crakanthorp reclaim the seat handily.

Members for Newcastle

Election results

References

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3. "District News". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. 30 June 1893. Retrieved 6 February 2015 – via Trove.
4. "Division of Electorates". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. 4 June 1901. Retrieved 6 February 2015 – via Trove.
5. "1904 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
6. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Newcastle". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
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9. Two NSW Liberal MPs stand aside from the party following ICAC revelations on campaign funding: ABC 6 August 2014
10. Newcastle MP Tim Owen and Charlestown MP Andrew Cornwell resign from NSW Parliament following ICAC donations inquiry: SMH 12 August 2014
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13. ^ "Mr George Alfred Lloyd (1815-1897)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
14. "Dr Richard Ryther Steer Bowker (1815-1903)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
15. ^ "Mr James Fletcher (1834-1891)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
16. ^ "Mr James Cole Ellis (1843-1930)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
17. "Mr Alexander Brown (1851-1926)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
18. ^ "Mr William (2) Grahame (1875–1945)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
19. "Mr James Curley (1846-1913)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
20. "Mr David Scott (1848-1927)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
21. ^ "The Hon. John Lionel Fegan (1862–1932)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
22. "Mr William Thomas Dick (1865-1932)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
23. "Mr Owen Gilbert (1868-1934)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
24. ^ "Mr Arthur Rowland Gardiner (1876-1948)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
25. "Mr John Estell (1861–1928)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
26. "Mr William Kearsley (1863–1921)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
27. "Major Hugh John Connell (1884-1934)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
28. "Mr David Murray (1885–1928)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
29. "Mr Walter Peden Joyce Skelton (1883-1979)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
30. "Mr John Marcus Baddeley (1881–1953)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
31. "Mr Magnus Cromarty (1875-1925)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
32. "Mr George Booth (1891–1960)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
33. "Mr Peter Connolly (1890-1959)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
34. "Mr Francis Hawkins (1897–1971)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
35. "Mr (Arthur) William Arthur Wade (1919-2014)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
36. "Mr Ernest George Keegan (1928-2008)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
37. "Mr Bryce James Gaudry (1942-2019)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
38. "Ms Jodi Leyanne McKay, MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
39. "Mr Timothy Francis Owen (1955- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
40. "Mr (Tim) Timothy Carson Crakanthorp, MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
41. LA First Preference: Newcastle, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
42. LA Two Candidate Preferred: Newcastle, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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