Electoral district of Miranda

Miranda New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location of Miranda in Sydney
State	New South Wales
Created	1971
MP	Eleni Petinos
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Electors	54,856 (2015)
Area	38.87 km2 (15.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

Miranda is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.

A central Sutherland Shire electorate, Miranda crosses the peninsula between the Georges River and Port Hacking. It includes the suburbs of Como, Bonnet Bay, Oyster Bay, Kareela, Kirrawee, Gymea, Gymea Bay, Grays Point and parts of Sylvania, Miranda and Jannali. The seat's federal equivalent is in the western half of the Division of Cook.

Created in 1971, Miranda had traditionally been a Liberal electorate, being won by Labor only at landslide elections, two under Neville Wran in 1978 and 1981, and again under Bob Carr in 1999 and 2003. According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in 2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor. On a margin of 0.8 percent it was the Labor government's most marginal seat. In 2011 the Liberals won government in a landslide, and the seat of Miranda on a very safe 21.0 percent margin, with 39 seats held by the Coalition on smaller margins.

The seat was made vacant following the resignation of Liberal MP Graham Annesley. The 2013 Miranda by-election was conducted on 19 October, Labor's Barry Collier won the seat with a two-party swing of 26 percent in the largest by-election swing in the state's history. He did not stand for re-election at the 2015 NSW State election and the seat was subsequently won by the Liberal Party's Eleni Petinos.

Members for Miranda

Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Tim Walker	Liberal	1971–1978
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Bill Robb	Labor	1978–1984
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Ron Phillips	Liberal	1984–1999
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Barry Collier	Labor	1999–2011
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Graham Annesley	Liberal	2011–2013
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Barry Collier	Labor	2013–2015
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Eleni Petinos	Liberal	2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Miranda

New South Wales state election, 2015

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Eleni Petinos	27,325	55.3	−7.4
	Labor	Greg Holland	14,654	29.6	+8.8
	Greens	Mick Nairn	3,450	7.0	−1.0
	Christian Democrats	Mark Falanga	2,139	4.3	+0.2
	Independent	John Brett	1,109	2.2	-0.9
	No Land Tax	Andrew Tran	777	1.6	+1.6
Total formal votes			49,454	96.7	-0.6
Informal votes			1,705	3.3	+0.6
Turnout			51,159	93.3	−1.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Eleni Petinos	28,562	63.0	-10.0
	Labor	Greg Holland	16,800	37.0	+10.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	-10.0

External links

• "Miranda". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 October 2011.