Division of Grayndler

Grayndler Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Grayndler (green) in New South Wales
Created:	1949
MP:	Anthony Albanese
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Edward Grayndler
Area:	32 km² (12 sq mi)
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Grayndler is an Australian Electoral Division in inner Metropolitan Sydney, New South Wales. It is one of Australia's smallest electorates, located in the inner-southern Sydney metropolitan area, including parts of the inner-west. The electorate includes the suburbs of Annandale, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Enmore, Haberfield, Hurlstone Park, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown, Petersham, Stanmore and Summer Hill.

History

The division was created in 1949 and is named for Edward Grayndler (1867-1943), a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1921 to 1934 and 1936 to 1943, and General Secretary of the Australian Workers Union from 1912 to 1941. It was originally a solidly working-class area, although migration and gentrification have since radically changed its demography. Grayndler is a marginal Labor held seat in New South Wales with the party currently holding a margin of 4.23%. Grayndler also has a very high percentage of Australian Greens voters with 25.9% at the 2010 election.

Its most prominent members have been Fred Daly, who was a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government, and Leo McLeay, who was Speaker of the House 1989-93. Daly was succeeded by Gough Whitlam's son, Tony Whitlam, who served only one term before the neighbouring Division of Lang was abolished, and lost preselection to that sitting member. According to the ABC, "When Graham Richardson resigned from the Ministry over the Marshall Islands affair before the 1993 election, left-wing power-broker Anthony Albanese organised for Jeannette McHugh to replace him in the Ministry. Being a Minister entitled her to a seat, and as her own seat of Phillip had been abolished, she moved to Grayndler, forcing Leo McLeay to move to the neighbouring seat of Watson. Having delivered the seat to the left, Albanese was rewarded with pre-selection in 1996, winning despite a high profile campaign by No Aircraft Noise," and is still the sitting MP today.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Fred Daly	Labor	1949–1975
	Tony Whitlam	Labor	1975–1977
	Frank Stewart	Labor	1977–1979
	Leo McLeay	Labor	1979–1993
	Jeannette McHugh	Labor	1993–1996
	Anthony Albanese	Labor	1996–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Grayndler

Australian federal election, 2010: Grayndler
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Anthony Albanese	38,369	46.09	-9.37
	Greens	Sam Byrne	21,555	25.90	+7.26
	Liberal	Alexander Dore	20,178	24.24	+3.30
	Democrats	Perry Garofani	1,074	1.29	-0.38
	Socialist Equality	James Cogan	1,041	1.25	+0.86
	Socialist Alliance	Pip Hinman	1,022	1.23	+1.18
Total formal votes			83,239	92.92	-1.10
Informal votes			6,344	7.08	+1.10
Turnout			89,583	91.31	-3.00
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anthony Albanese	58,789	70.63	-4.22
	Liberal	Alexander Dore	24,450	29.37	+4.22
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Anthony Albanese	45,138	54.23	-20.62
	Greens	Sam Byrne	38,101	45.77	+45.77
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

References

• Division of Grayndler - Australian Electoral Commission