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The other high-profile retirement, that of former Labor leader Jodi McKay in Strathfield, led to a close battle between Labor candidate Jason Yat-Sen Li and Liberal Bridget Sakr. Live results: see who's ahead in each seat. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. The iVote online voting system was not used at these elections after the system failed during the NSW local government elections in December 2021. NSW by-elections early results indicate large swing against coalition state government By Andrew Rickert 3:05am Feb 13, 2022 Early results from the NSW 'Super Saturday' by-elections indicate voters have turned against the coalition state government. 598 votes, 16 Informal (2.7%) First Preference . The election was seen by many as the first real test of new Premier Dominic Perrottet, with his government's management of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the wave of Omicron cases, coming under the microscope before the state heads the polls in March 2023. Current elections in NSW Hay Shire Council countback election - 26 Aug 2022 Election of one Councillor Snowy Monaro Regional Council countback election - 26 Aug 2022 Election of one Councillor Georges River Council (Mortdale Ward) countback election - 21 Sep 2022 Election of one Councillor in the Mortdale Ward Current elections in NSW Wentworth Shire Council countback election - 27 Jul 2022 Election of one Councillor Shellharbour City Council election - 30 Jul 2022 Election of two Councillors in Ward A Singleton Council election - 30 Jul 2022 Election of nine Councillors See all current electionsarrow_forward For voterskeyboard_arrow_right Both are good candidates, I have my reservations about Jason but there could be worse. On NSWEC website, it has Allawah for Jason Lis locality but in the SMH today it says he lives in Cremorne. Strange how The same power broker was also responsible for her leadership spill and demise from the Labor party and selection of Labors Strathfield candidate. At the 2019 election, pre-polls represented 11.5% of enrolment, and Postal and iVotes together 8.2%. Longer term residents in the area will still remember the Unity Party that he started which managed to win quite a few council seats in this area on an anti-One Nation platform, but turned out to be just another front for developers, and a few of them got arrested for corruption. He was also a named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Go to content. Dr Holland claimed victory just before 9pm on Saturday, saying, "it was time to celebrate a bit of history". He ran as an independent in Lowe at the 1998 federal election, losing to the ALPs John Murphy. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. See how the night unfoldedwith ourby-elections blog. Postal votes were checked against in-person voting rolls to prevent double voting. History The electoral district of Strathfield has existed since 1988. [1], The Strathfield by-election was held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega, Monaro and Willoughby. Nominations for candidates closed seven days later at noon on 27 January, with the ballot paper draw commencing in the morning of 28 January. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Postal vote processing will not begin until Wednesday 16 February, after rolls for in-person voting have been scanned. Noting state Upper House member Rose Jackson and her husband, former Reid candidate, Sam Crosby have moved to the area. MacCarthy re-contested in 1999 but was defeated by Ashfield's Labor MP Paul Whelan, who had a high profile as Police Minister in the Carr government. Dominic Perrottet faces litmus test during NSW by-elections. From 1996 to 1998 Li worked for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands and in 1998 returned to Australia to lead a number of political campaigns including high profile involvment in the campaign for Australia to become a Republic. Bridget Sakr will be the member for Strathfield." The Liberals and their candidate, Tim James, sustained a swing against themin Willoughby. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. To improve your experience, Sharks vs Rabbitohs live NRL match centre. Casuscelli was narrowly defeated at the 2015 election by Jodi McKay who increased her majority in 2019. The NSW government has been pushed further into minority after Labor won the seat of Bega for the first time in one of four by-elections held in the state. He had won the seat of Burwood in 1984, holding it for one term before it was abolished. It is too important to get wrong, and a message is loud and clear if you look at the results in these booths and in these seats.". 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He served as Minister for Police from 1995 to 2001, and as Leader of the House until 2003, when he retired. She launched a national i4Give Day for victims families to assist with the healing/grieving process. Seems like Strathfield would have been a more realistic way for her to get into Parliament. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. The counting of postal ballot papers will begin on Saturday 19 February. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. The state seat based on Burwood and Strathfield had long been a Liberal voting enclave in Sydney's inner-west. I dont know whether she tried to seek preselection for this seat as well but I really dont get whats her reasoning in running here other than just out of spite. While Labor isn't running a candidate in the seat, independent Larissa Penn is polling well. Only some of the pre-polling votes were counted, so the tentative data is heavily skewed and biased at present. Strathfield became an option because Labor needed a quick fix and also many in head office are still somewhat suspicious of Jason, and this would be a true test of his political character. In my opinion Jason is the one who has had the dream run- various interviews on ABC and ABS, a Fin Review and Daily Telegraph write-up. He volunteers at the Sydney Vegan Market, Plant Alive Festival, Super Furry Festival and through his involvement in the Animal Justice Party. McKay returned to politics by winning Strathfield at the 2015 election. Electoral results for the district of Strathfield Strathfield, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was first established in 1988, largely replacing Burwood. The graph of first preference votes includes an entry for a party called Unity that contested elections from 1999 to 2007. 12 February 2022 Monaro State by-election Final count reports: . The swing to Labor in 1999 was a substantial 11.1%, but on Whelan's retirement in 2003, new Labor candidate Virginia Judge managed to add another 7.4% to Labor's margin. Most of the votes were postal, counted a week later on 19 February 2022. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/key-labor-candidate-says-parliament-needs-ethnic-diversity-targets-20190423-p51geh.html "It always is for governments in by-elections. Whelan was succeeded by Strathfield mayor Virginia Judge in 2003. First the issue of the Belt and Road, the source is Epoch Times which is not considered a reliable source. "I'm really pleased that I've spent every day of the past four months fighting as hard as I can.". Votes werealso held in the electorates of Willoughby, Strathfield and Monaro. Voters heavily favoured pre-poll and postal voting as part of COVID-19 pandemic measures, with less than a quarter of voters casting ordinary votes today. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. He had served as a minister in the Wran Labor government from 1981 to 1984. The party disappeared after the defeat of the Howard government in 2007. Saturday, February 19 The Willoughby count has been updated with 9673 postals on the primary vote, and while these have leaned less heavily to the Liberals than postals did in 2019, they suggest Tim James' lead is likely to widen from here rather than narrow. Skip to main content. The numbers are controlled by NSW power broker Shaqouett Moselmane, who administers a lot of the branches in the FEC. "I hope to go on and represent my community now as a simple rural local Member of Parliament," he said. Strathfield has the state's second highest proportion of residents born overseas (55.6%), the fourth highest proportion born in a non-English speaking country (52.3%), the sixth highest with both parents born overseas (71.4%), the third highest born in North-East Asia (23.1%), the sixth highest born in South Asia (12.8%) and a related fourth highest proportion of Hindus (11.2%). His data will be more comprehensive early next week, so perhaps a place holder is needed to reference his data and graph on the postal votes etc etc. I have tried to rectify this and bring in some balance by putting in the Campaign section but the negative points against Li keep coming, much of it unable to be shown to be of much significance in the campaign with only fleeting mentions in the sources. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/troubling-council-grants-program-lacked-integrity-nsw-auditor-general-20220208-p59uos.html, Again, this has nothing to do with the by elections. Obviously, things must not have worked out. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 07:14, 11 February 2022 (UTC). iVote is not available but see note below on postal voting. Labor's highest two-party preferred vote was 71.8% at Homebush West Public School, while the best Liberal result of 64.9% was recorded just over a kilometre away St John's Anglican Church in Strathfield.