State New South Wales MP John Robertson Demographic Outer Metropolitan Area 33.03 km² Elector 54,495 Party Australian Labor Party | Created 1941 Electors 54,495 (2015) Founded 1941 Member of parliament John Robertson Namesake Blacktown | |
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Blacktown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The current member for Blacktown is John Robertson, former Opposition Leader. He stepped down as the Opposition Leader on 23 December 2014.
Blacktown is a 33.03 km² urban electorate in Sydney's outer west, taking in the suburbs of Blacktown, Doonside, Kings Park, Marayong, Woodcroft and parts of Bungarribee, Lalor Park, Quakers Hill and Seven Hills.
History
Blacktown is known as a largely working-class area, and as such, the electorate has tended to strongly support the Australian Labor Party, which has held the seat for all but three years since its inception. It was briefly marginal during the late 1950s, when long-serving member John Freeman was forced into retirement after trying and failing to find a safer seat. Liberal Alfred Dennis won the seat in the 1959 election, but held it for only one term before Labor regained it. The seat has since reverted to its usual tendencies.