Electoral district of Gosford

Gosford is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was represented by Marie Andrews of the Australian Labor Partyuntil 2011 when lcoal Liberal parth member Chris Holstein was elected. The former district of Gosford was renamed Terrigal for the 2007 state election. The nearby seat of Peats was renamed Gosford at the same time.

The Liberal Party has preselected 2007 candidate and Gosford City Council Mayor Chris Holstein to contest the seat at the 2011 New South Wales State election.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Gosford who were born overseas is 15% which is slightly lower than the national average at 22.2% and the percentage of people who have Australian citizenship is only slightly higher than the national average of 86.1% at 88.4%. As for languages spoken at home English only was the most common language spoken by 90.4% of the population which is substantially higher than national average at 78.5%. Italian was second with 0.4%, while no other language was spoken by more than 0.3% of the total population. Anglicanism was the most common religion at 28.2%, followed by Catholicism at 26.6%, No Religion with 14.9% and Uniting Church at 5.6%. Median incomes for the population aged 15 years and over was only slightly lower in both weekly individual income and weekly household income but slightly higher in the weekly family income category. [1]

Members for Gosford

Member		Party	Period
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Harold Jackson	Liberal	1950—1965
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Ted Humphries	Liberal	1965—1971
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Keith O'Connell	Labor	1971—1973
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Malcolm Brooks	Liberal	1973—1976
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Brian McGowan	Labor	1976—1988
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal|	Chris Hartcher	Liberal	1988—2007
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor|	Marie Andrews	Labor	2007—present

Election results

New South Wales state election, 2007: Gosford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Marie Andrews	18,448	42.7	-2.8
	Liberal	Chris Holstein	15,057	34.8	+3.3
	Independent	Debra Wales	3,852	8.9	+8.9
	Greens	Hillary Morris	2,977	6.9	+1.6
	Christian Democrats	George Grant	1,241	2.9	+2.9
	Against Further Immigration	Robert Moulds	1,141	2.6	+1.4
	Save Our Suburbs	Bryan Ellis	524	1.2	+0.9
Total formal votes			43,240	97.3
Informal votes			1,165	2.7
Turnout			44,405	93.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Marie Andrews	20,535	54.9	-3.8
	Liberal	Chris Holstein	16,900	45.1	+3.8
	Labor hold		Swing	-3.8

External links

• "ABC News". ABC Broadcasting. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
• "Gosford Electoral District". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
• "State Electoral District - Gosford Results 2007". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
• "State Electoral District - Gosford Results 2003". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
• "State Electoral District - Gosford Results 1999". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2007-01-24.