Electoral district of Vaucluse

Vaucluse New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location within Sydney
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1927–present
MP	Gabrielle Upton
Party	Liberal Party
Electors	57,239 (2017)
Area	24.62 km2 (9.5 sq mi)
Electorates around Vaucluse: North Shore North Shore Manly Sydney Vaucluse Pacific Ocean Heffron Coogee Pacific Ocean

Vaucluse is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, based on the suburb of Vaucluse. Vaucluse is one of two original (post 1927 redistribution) electorates to have never been held by the opposing Labor party and always by the Liberal Party or its predecessors, the other district being Hornsby. It has been represented in the past by former Leaders of the Opposition Murray Robson and Peter Debnam of the Liberal Party.

Members for Vaucluse

Member		Party	Period
	William Foster	United Australia	1927–1936
	Murray Robson	Independent UAP	1936–1938
		United Australia	1938–1945
		Liberal	1945–1957
	Geoffrey Cox	Liberal	1957–1964
	Keith Doyle	Liberal	1965–1978
	Rosemary Foot	Liberal	1978–1986
	Ray Aston	Liberal	1986–1988
	Michael Yabsley	Liberal	1988–1994
	Peter Debnam	Liberal	1994–2011
	Gabrielle Upton	Liberal	2011–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Vaucluse

New South Wales state election, 2015: Vaucluse

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gabrielle Upton	30,257	65.6	−4.2
	Greens	Megan McEwin	8,559	18.5	+0.3
	Labor	Gloria Nicol	6,090	13.2	+2.5
	No Land Tax	Susanne Gervay	854	1.9	+1.9
	Christian Democrats	Beresford Thomas	387	0.8	−0.4
Total formal votes			46,147	97.6	+0.8
Informal votes			1,155	2.4	−0.8
Turnout			47,302	85.2	−0.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Gabrielle Upton	31,493	75.3	−6.1
	Labor	Gloria Nicol	10,331	24.7	+6.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Gabrielle Upton	31,118	72.9	−3.2
	Greens	Megan McEwin	11,551	27.1	+3.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.2

External links

• "Vaucluse". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 September 2011.