Electoral district of Marrickville

Location within Sydney

Marrickville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a 13.47 km² urban electorate in Sydney's inner west, centred on the suburb of Marrickville from which it takes its name. It also includes the suburbs of Camperdown, Darlington, Enmore, Lewisham, Newtown, Petersham, Stanmore and parts of Dulwich Hill and Erskineville as well as the University of Sydney.

History

Created in 1894, Marrickville has traditionally been an ALP stronghold, but has become less so as the Greens support has been on the rise in recent years. The Liberal Party has not featured in the final two candidate count since 1991, beaten in 1995 by the short lived single issue party No Aircraft Noise and since then by the Greens.

The seat has been held by the ALP since 1910. Its longest-serving member, Carlo Lazzarini was elected in 1917 and served until his death in 1952, although for 1920-27, the seat did not exist and he was member for the multi-member district of Western Suburbs. He was the first member of the NSW parliament with an Italian name. The seat was then held for twenty years by Norm Ryan, who for part of that time was Minister for Public Works and oversaw the building of the Sydney Opera House. After being elected 7 times, he stood aside for fellow ALP member, Tom Cahill (the son of former premier Joseph Cahill), who held the seat until his death in 1983. The resulting by-election was won by Andrew Refshauge, who was the deputy premier from April 4, 1995 until his resignation on August 10, 2005. At the general election in 2003, Refshauge won with a 10.7% two party preferred majority over Greens candidate Colin Hesse.

Refshauge's sudden retirement in 2005 sparked another by-election on September 17, held simultaneously with by-elections in Macquarie Fields and Maroubra. While the Liberal Party did not field a candidate, the ALP faced a strong challenger in the Deputy Mayor of Marrickville, Sam Byrne, running as a Greens candidate. The ALP subsequently drafted Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt, who was then a member of the Legislative Council, as their candidate, as she was seen to be the best chance of holding the seat. Despite Tebbutt's profile, she has faced significant challenges from Byrne, but has ultimately won out - although the Green vote was the highest in Australian history. Tebbutt retained the seat in the 2007 and 2011 state elections, however with her majority over the Greens being successively reduced. Tebbutt is married to federal minister Anthony Albanese who represents Grayndler which shares area with Marrickville.

Members

First incarnation (1894—1920)
Member		Party	Term
	Francis McLean	Free Trade	1894—1901
	Richard McCoy	Liberal Reform	1901—1910
	Thomas Crawford	Labor	1910—1916
		Nationalist	1916—1917
	Carlo Lazzarini	Labor	1917—1920
Second incarnation (1927—present)
Member		Party	Term
	Carlo Lazzarini	Labor	1927—1938
		Industrial Labor	1938—1941
		Labor	1941—1953
	Norm Ryan	Labor	1953—1973
	Tom Cahill	Labor	1973—1983
	Andrew Refshauge	Labor	1983—2005
	Carmel Tebbutt	Labor	2005—present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Marrickville

New South Wales state election, 2011: Marrickville
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Carmel Tebbutt	17,413	38.1	-8.5
	Greens	Fiona Byrne	16,395	35.9	+3.3
	Liberal	Rosana Tyler	8,714	19.1	+6.5
	Socialist Alliance	Pip Hinman	860	1.9	+0.3
	Independent	Paul Quealy	817	1.8	+1.8
		James Cogan	572	1.3	+1.3
	Christian Democrats	Kylie Laurence	531	1.2	-0.3
	Family First	Jimmy Liem	395	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			45,697	97.1	+0.2
Informal votes			1,377	2.9	-0.2
Turnout			47,074	90.2	+0.3
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Carmel Tebbutt	19,046	50.9	-6.6
	Greens	Fiona Byrne	18,370	49.1	+6.6
	Labor hold		Swing	-6.6

External links

• "Marrickville". New South Wales Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/profiles/district_profiles/marrickville. Retrieved 2011-06-25. 

• Antony Green and the Marrickville Maulers at the Wayback Machine (archived August 12, 2005)