Electoral district of Fairfield

Location within Sydney

Fairfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. Fairfield has historically been one of the safest Labor seats in New South Wales and is considered a part of Labor's heartland in Western Sydney . It is currently represented by Guy Zangari of the Australian Labor Party.

Demographics

Fairfield is similar to much of Western Sydney in the fact that a significant size of the population were either born overseas or have parents who were born overseas. Approximately 50% of the population which is more than double the Australian average at 22.2% were born overseas of which most were born in either East Asian countries such as Vietnam and China or from Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Lebanon. Despite this high level of foreign born residents, 83.4% had Australian citizenship which is only slightly lower than the national average of 86.1%. As for languages spoken at home English was the most common language spoken by 29.5%, followed by Vietnamese with 14.5%, Arabic at 11.7% and Assyrian at 6.7%. No other languages were spoken by more than 5% of the population. Catholicism was the most common religion followed by nearly one third of the population at 32.6%. This was followed by Buddhism at 16.7%, Islam at 8.3%, Anglicanism at 8.1% and followers of Eastern Orthodox Christianity at 6.6% of the total population. Median incomes for the population aged 15 years and over was in all 3 categories lower than the national average. [1]

Members for Fairfield

Member		Party	Period
	Clarrie Earl	Labor	1953—1962
	Jack Ferguson	Labor	1962—1968
	Eric Bedford	Labor	1968—1981
	Janice Crosio	Labor	1981—1988
	Geoff Irwin	Labor	1988—1995
	Joe Tripodi	Labor	1995—2011
	Guy Zangari	Labor	2011—present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Fairfield

New South Wales state election, 2011: Fairfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Guy Zangari	17,858	40.7	-17.6
	Liberal	Charbel Saliba	16,657	37.9	+15.3
	Greens	Annie Nielsen	2,890	6.6	+0.4
	Christian Democrats	Eileen Nasr	2,332	5.3	+0.0
	Independent	David Ball	1,489	3.4	+3.4
	Independent	Ahmad Al-Yasiry	1,281	2.9	+2.9
		Linda Harris	1,074	2.4	+2.4
	Socialist Alliance	Daicy Olaya	329	0.7	+0.7
Total formal votes			43,910	93.5	-1.7
Informal votes			3,061	6.5	+1.7
Turnout			46,971	91.6	-0.6
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Guy Zangari	19,189	51.7	-18.7
	Liberal	Charbel Saliba	17,930	48.3	+18.7
	Labor hold		Swing	-18.7

External links

• "Fairfield". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/profiles/district_profiles/fairfield. Retrieved 2011-04-01.