Electoral district of Albury

Albury New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
State or territory:	New South Wales
Created:	1880, 1927
Abolished:	1920
MP:	Greg Aplin
Party:	Liberal Party of Australia
Electors:	49,579 (2011)
Area:	12,956 km² (5,002 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently held by Greg Aplin.

Albury has generally been considered as a heartland seat for the conservative parties, and the Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors have held the seat for almost all of its history. While there have been several instances of the Australian Labor Party breaking the conservative hold on the seat, these have typically been short-lived and have occurred only at the peak of a popular government. There has been only one major exception to this: former Albury mayor Harold Mair won the seat for Labor in 1978 and held it for a decade before being swept away in the landslide Labor defeat of 1988. The Albury electorate has since reverted to its traditional tendencies—the current Liberal member, Greg Aplin, was returned with more than 60 per cent of the vote in 2003, and Labor finished fourth behind Aplin and two independents.

Albury includes both urban and rural areas, covering 12,956 km². There were 49,579 people enrolled within the electorate as of November 2011. Albury currently encompassed the local government areas of the City of Albury (including Albury), Greater Hume Shire (Culcairn and Holbrook), Corowa Shire (Corowa and Howlong) and Tumbarumba Shire (Tumbarumba) and a small part of Tumut Shire (Cabramurra).

History

Albury was first created in 1880 from part of Hume and is named after the city of Albury. In 1920, Albury, Wagga Wagga and Corowa was absorbed into Murray and elected four members under proportional representation. At the end of proportional representation in 1927, Albury was recreated.

Members

First incarnation (1880–1920)
Member		Party	Term
	George Day	None	1880–1887
		Protectionist	1887–1889
	John Wilkinson	Protectionist	1889–1895
	Richard Ball	Free Trade	1895–1898
	Thomas Griffith	Protectionist	1898–1901
		Independent	1901–1904
	Gordon McLaurin	Progressive	1904–1907
		Independent	1907–1913
	John Cusack	Labor	1913–1917
		Independent Labor	1917–1917
	Arthur Manning	Nationalist	1917–1920
Second incarnation (1927—present)
Member		Party	Term
	John Ross	Nationalist	1927–1930
		Independent	1930–1930
	Joseph Fitzgerald	Labor	1930–1932
	Alexander Mair	United Australia	1932–1943
		Democratic	1943–1945
		Liberal	1945–1946
	John Hurley	Labor	1946–1947
	Doug Padman	Liberal	1947–1965
	Gordon Mackie	Liberal	1965–1978
	Harold Mair	Labor	1978–1988
	Ian Glachan	Liberal	1988–2003
	Greg Aplin	Liberal	2003–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Albury

New South Wales state election, 2011: Albury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Greg Aplin	26,316	61.1	-4.2
	Labor	Darren Cameron	6,566	15.2	-12.1
	Independent	Paul Wareham	6,276	14.6	+14.6
	Greens	Colin Hesse	2,188	5.1	-2.2
	Christian Democrats	Rhonda Avasalu	1,101	2.6	+2.6
	Democrats	Stephen Bingle	617	1.4	+1.4
Total formal votes			43,064	96.3	-1.1
Informal votes			1,667	3.7	+1.1
Turnout			44,731	90.0	-0.4
Two-candidate preferred result
	Liberal	Greg Aplin	28,606	76.9	+7.9
	Labor	Darren Cameron	8,609	23.1	-7.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.9

External links

• "Albury". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/profiles/district_profiles/albury. Retrieved 2011-09-26.