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Electoral district of Kogarah

Electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

Summary

Electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

Field	Value
name	Kogarah
state	nsw
image
caption	Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
lifespan	1930–present
mp	Chris Minns
mp-party	Labor
namesake	Kogarah
electors	53226
electors_year	2019
area	18.13
class	Outer-metropolitan
near-n	Canterbury
near-ne	Rockdale
near-e	Rockdale
near-se	Rockdale
near-s	Miranda
near-sw	Oatley
near-w	Oatley
near-nw	Bankstown

Kogarah is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The electorate is located in St George. It is represented by Chris Minns of the Australian Labor Party, the state's premier.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Kogarah takes in the suburbs of Allawah, Beverly Hills, Carlton, Carss Park, Kogarah and parts of Bexley, Bexley North, Blakehurst, Hurstville, Kingsgrove, Penshurst and South Hurstville.

History

Kogarah was created for the 1930 election, partly replacing the abolished districts of Oatley and St George. It was a marginal seat in the 1930s and 1940s but, since 1953, it became increasingly safe for Labor.

The seat was first won by former state MP for St George and Oatley, Mark Gosling of the Labor Party. However, following factionalism, splits and sectarianism within the state and federal Labor parties, the United Australia Party, later the Liberal Party, won the seat at the 1932 election. Winning back the seat in 1941, the Labor Party have since held the seat for seventy-eight of the seats ninety-three years of its existence.

Kogarah has one of the biggest Chinese-Australian communities in Australia, with around 29,000 of the electorate's residents having a Chinese background.

Members for Kogarah

Term
name=Mr Mark Gosling (1886-1980)	id=1439	former=Yes	access-date=16 June 2019}}
James Ross
title=Mr William Matthew Currey VC (1895-1948)	id=1572	former=Yes	access-date=23 October 2019}}
name=Mr Douglas Donald Cross (1892–1970)	id=1530	former=Yes	access-date=11 May 2019}}
former=Yes	title=Mr Bill Crabtree (1915-2001)	id=1745	access-date=13 May 2019}}
title=The Hon. Brian Joseph Langton (1948- )	id=2045	former=Yes	access-date=13 May 2019}}
name=Ms Cherie Ann Burton (1968- )	id=2221	former=Yes	access-date=13 May 2019}}
name=Mr (Chris) Christopher John Minns MP	id= 108	access-date=6 April 2019}}

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Kogarah

References

"Kogarah". [[New South Wales Electoral Commission]].
(27 October 1930). "Swing To Labor". [[The Tweed Daily]].
"Chinese-Australians' political awakening was a big factor in Labor's win in Aston". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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"Mr James Clyde Ross (1895–1975)".
"Mr William Matthew Currey VC (1895-1948)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
"Mr Bill Crabtree (1915-2001)".
"The Hon. Brian Joseph Langton (1948- )".
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