Division of Werriwa

Werriwa
Australian House of Representatives Division
Werriwa; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of Werriwa (green) in New South Wales
Created	1901
MP	Anne Stanley
Party	Labor
Namesake	Lake George (Aboriginal name)
Area	159 km2 (61.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Werriwa is a Federal Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives in the state of New South Wales.

The name Werriwa is the local Aboriginal name for Lake George. The lake was in the division when the boundaries were drawn in 1900. The division was one of the original 75 divisions for Australia's first federal election in 1901. It covered a large rural area from the south west of Sydney to the northern part of what is now the ACT.

Over the years, the population around Sydney increased. The boundaries were redrawn and Werriwa became smaller in area. By 1913 Lake George was no longer included in the Dvision. Werriwa become a south-western Sydney suburban electorate over 150 km away from Lake George. It has kept the name of Werriwa, because it is an original Federation electorate. The Australian Electoral Commission tries to keep the names of original Federation electorates.

Werriwa now covers the suburbs of Austral, Bardia, Bow Bowing, Casula, Claymore, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Eschol Park, Glenfield, Horningsea Park, Hoxton Park, Ingleburn, Leppington, Lurnea, Macquarie Fields, Minto, Minto Heights, Prestons, Raby, St Andrews and Varroville and parts of Liverpool, Leumeah and West Hoxton.

Members

	Party	Term
Alfred Conroy	Free Trade	1901–1906
David Hall	Labor	1906–1912
Benjamin Bennett	Labor	1912–1913
Alfred Conroy	Commonwealth Liberal	1913–1914
John Lynch	Labor	1914–1916
	National Labor	1916–1917
	Nationalist	1917–1918
Hubert Lazzarini	Labor	1919-1931
Hubert Lazzarini	Lang Labor	1931–1931
Walter McNicoll	Country	1931–1934
Hubert Lazzarini	Lang Labor	1934–1936
Hubert Lazzarini	Labor	1936–1952
Gough Whitlam	Labor	1952–1978
John Kerin	Labor	1978–1994
Mark Latham	Labor	1994–2005
Chris Hayes	Labor	2005–2010
Laurie Ferguson	Labor	2010–present

It is a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (ALP), which has held it without a break since 1934.

Werriwa was the electorate (1952-78) of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. From 1994 to 2005 the Werriwa was held by one of Whitlam's former aides, Mark Latham. Latham was the leader of the ALP and Leader of the Opposition from 2003-2005.

In a by-election in March 2005, Labor's Chris Hayes was elected with over 55% of the vote. There were 16 other candidates but none got more than 8% of the vote.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Werriwa^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Anne Stanley	40,108	39.86	−7.90
	Liberal	Sam Kayal	30,864	30.67	−4.60
	Liberal Democrats	Victor Tey	8,978	8.92	+8.92
	United Australia	Tony Nikolic	8,813	8.76	+4.56
	Greens	Apurva Shukla	6,772	6.73	+1.36
	One Nation	Adam Booke	5,096	5.06	+5.06
Total formal votes			100,631	90.18	+1.75
Informal votes			10,962	9.82	−1.75
Turnout			111,593	88.53	−2.00
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anne Stanley	56,173	55.82	+0.35
	Liberal	Sam Kayal	44,458	44.18	−0.35
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.35