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Electoral district of Parramatta

State electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

Field	Value
name	Parramatta
state	nsw
image
caption	Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
lifespan	1856–present
mp	Donna Davis
mp-party	Labor
namesake	Parramatta
electors	57995
electors_year	2023
area	36
class	Inner-metropolitan
near-n	Epping
near-ne	Ryde
near-e	Drummoyne
near-se	Auburn
Strathfield
near-s	Auburn
Granville
near-sw	Granville
near-w	Winston Hills
Granville
near-nw	Winston Hills

Parramatta is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was won by Donna Davis of the Labor Party in the 2023 NSW state election.

Parramatta is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner north-west, roughly analogous to the City of Parramatta.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Parramatta takes in the suburbs of Camellia, Carlingford, Dundas, Dundas Valley, Ermington, Granville, Harris Park, Melrose Park, North Parramatta, North Rocks, Oatlands, Parramatta, Rosehill, Rydalmere, Telopea and Westmead, as well as part of Mays Hill.

History

Parramatta is the only electorate to have existed continuously since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856. It elected two members simultaneously from 1856 to 1880. In 1920, it absorbed Granville and elected three members under proportional representation. In 1927, it was divided into the single-member electorates of Parramatta, Granville and Auburn.

For most of its single member history since 1927 and prior to 2011 Parramatta was a safe Labor Party seat. Prior to 2011 it was last held by the Liberals by John Books from 1988 to 1991. The Liberal Party had hopes of winning back the seat at the 1994 by-election when it was a marginal ALP seat but the ALP retained the seat with a huge swing towards it.

Labor went into the 2011 election holding the seat with a margin of 13.1 percent, but Liberal challenger Geoff Lee won it on a swing of 25.8 percent, turning it into a safe Liberal seat in one stroke. He was reelected in 2015, the first time in over 60 years that the Liberals (or their predecessors) have been reelected in the seat's single member incarnation.

Members for Parramatta

Two members (1856–1880)	Party	Term	Member	Party	Term
	Henry Parker	None	1856–1857			George Oakes	None
	James Byrnes	None	1858–1861
	Other}}		John Lackey	None	1860–1864
	Arthur Holroyd	None	1861–1864
	James Byrnes	None	1864–1872			James Farnell	None
Other}}	Hugh Taylor	None	1872–1880
	Charles Byrnes	None	1874–1877
	William Long	None	1877–1880

Party	Term
Charles Byrnes	None	1880–1882
Hugh Taylor	None	1882–1887
	1887–1894
Dowell O'Reilly		1894–1895
	1895–1898
William Ferris		1898–1901
Tom Moxham		1901–1916
Albert Bruntnell		1916–1917
	1917–1920

Three members (1920–1927)	Party	Member	Member	Term
Nationalist}}	Albert Bruntnell	1920–1927	Bill Ely	1920–1922	Labor NSW}}	Jack Lang
	Thomas Morrow	1922–1925
	Bill Ely	1925–1927

Party	Term
Albert Bruntnell		1927–1929
Herbert Lloyd		1929–1930
Joseph Byrne		1930–1932
George Gollan		1932–1945
	1945–1953
Kevin Morgan		1953–1956
Jim Clough		1956–1959
Dan Mahoney		1959–1976
Barry Wilde		1976–1988
John Books		1988–1991
Andrew Ziolkowski		1991–1994
Gabrielle Harrison		1994–2003
Tanya Gadiel		2003–2011
Geoff Lee		2011–2023
Donna Davis		2023–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Parramatta

References

"Parramatta". [[New South Wales Electoral Commission]].

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