The south-coast electorate has never been held by Labor since the seat was reinstated in 1988. 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.". In Strathfield, Labor's Jason Yat-Sen Li narrowly narrowly leads Bridget Sakr in Sydney's inner west and is projected to win on preferences. Farrellys strategy is to appeal only to the house owners who resent overdevelopment. The counting of postal ballot papers will begin on Saturday 19 February. The 2016 Census reveals that Strathfield is as an electorate with one of the highest concentrations of residents with a migrant background. Mr James claimed victory three hours into the countbut the government's once-comfortable margin of 21 per cent looked set to take a hit. She went straight back to the frontbench after returning to parliament in 2015, and was elected Labor leader after the 2019 election. Jason Yat-sen Li is set to win on a slim margin against the Liberal's Bridget Sakr. The Sydney Morning Herald is Australia's oldest masthead. Polls have now closed in NSW's four by-elections, but regraldess of the immediate result . Voters in Willoughby were replacing outgoing Premier Gladys Berejiklian, with Independent Larissa Penn the unexpected second choice after a campaign on local environmental issues. Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 52.5% in the west to 56.9% in the east. iVote is not available but see note below on postal voting. Information on candidates and how-to-vote material can be sent to. The seat was held until 1999 by the Liberal Party, and by Labor from 1999 to 2011, when the Liberal Party won it back. 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. 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. Skip to main content. Go to content language Ting Vit But as counting progressed, Labor's Jason Yat-Sen Yi pulled ahead. After the defeat she moved to Sydney and took up a job as Communications Director for Family Planning NSW. Saturday 12th February 2022 - NSW By-Elections - Bega / Monaro / Strathfield / Willoughby. Thanks for reminding me! Election Count Status; Status Achieved; Ready: 04/12/2021 17:00: Commenced: 04/12/2021 18:43: Final for Saturday: 04/12/2021 23:02: Continuing: 06/12/2021 09:30: Coloured tab indicates seat won by a party forming government, Labor recorded two-party preferred majorities at 16 of the 18 polling places within Strathfield at the 2019 election, and also at three small external polling places. Please add this line under the Campaign section @Canley: There is criticism Jason Yat-Sen Li is pro China's Belt and Road Initiative, and has not publicly retracted his 2019 statement of support that "Australia should consider investing in China's Belt and Road initiative". Interestingly, the area would fall under the right normally but Burney herself is a member of the Left. Labor polled 54.4% in Strathfield on election day, rising to 55.0% with the addition of pre-poll, absent and other categories of declaration vote. Judge was re-elected on new boundaries at the 2007 election, but her majority was not enough to survive Labor's landslide 2011 defeat. - Ready : No results will be available prior to 6.00 pm on Election Night Strathfield absorbed parts of the abolished electorate of Ashfield in a redistribution ahead of the 1999 election, halving the seat's Liberal majority. In 2007 she was chosen as Labor candidate for the state seat of Newcastle, narrowly elected against some local Labor Party opposition. 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. The Strathfield by-election is being held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega Monaro and Willoughby. Maybe overdoing it slightly. McKay was appointed to the Ministry in September 2008 and served in several portfolios before losing Newcastle at the 2011 election. The 1996 Strathfield by-election was won by the Liberal Partys Bruce McCarthy. Please add in the following text from @Canley: edits to match the other 3 concurrent by-elections: The Strathfield by-election is being held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega Monaro and Willoughby. Interestingly enough state Labor in 2019 did much better than Federal Labor did only a few weeks later. 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. The Perrottet government faced by-elections in four electorates, with Labor claiming to have flipped Bega as part of a large swing against the Liberal and National Parties. The media for some reason is Showing Bias to Bridget Sakr. (Click here for full size map), Maps courtesy of the NSW Electoral Commission. To improve your experience, Sharks vs Rabbitohs live NRL match centre. She holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney and has practiced in both the UK and Australia. Jason, like many Labor hopefuls, was sniffing around waiting for Linda Burney to retire to then run for Barton, hence the Allawah address. Sakr's life was upturned in February 2020 when her daughter and three cousins were killed while walking along Bettington Road in Oatlands. OLA North Strathfield: 302: 227: 54: 583: Check Count Complete: St Johns Strathfield: 142: 197: 43: 382: Check Count Complete: St Thomas Church Hall: 114: 146: 34: 294: The iVote online voting system was not used at these elections after the system failed during the NSW local government elections in December 2021. The column was terminated at the end of 2021 after Farrelly had registered under public funding laws as a Labor candidate for the local government elections, though Farrelly did not run for the elections. It includes the suburbs of Croydon, Burwood, Enfield, Strathfield, Croydon Park, North Strathfield, Strathfield South and parts of Homebush. ABC News Homepage. Speaking at a function in Strathfield, NSW Premier DominicPerrottet praised Ms Sakr's campaign, predicting she would win the seat at the next state election. Perhaps change the title to "Interim Partial Results until Official Results are Published on 23 February 2022" for audience clarity, The current caveat in small print is too small, too vague and it's misleading as only some of the votes have been counted. First the issue of the Belt and Road, the source is Epoch Times which is not considered a reliable source. Unfortunately, while it is an acute issue for the area, that population is ever dwindling she will have zero appeal to house owners who want development, or renters. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. Full display of results: Bega, Monaro, Strathfield and Willoughby. The Strathfield by-election was held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega, Monaro and Willoughby. The electorate has the state's third highest proportion of residents aged 15-24 (16.2%) related to having the fourth highest proportion attending University (12.8%). SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY - STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT/CORRUPTION. [6] Other issues include challenges of overdevelopment and the number of high rise towers in the area. There is a pattern of attempted changes specifically targeting. Search. All candidates may have negative points. Fiona Martin won it 53-47. Li was also a NSW Senate candidate in 1998 for Unity, a party with large Chinese-Australian membership formed in opposition to Pauline Hanson's One Nation. 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 Senate was a last-ditch effort, he fell short in Bennelong, looked at running for Banks but lost pre-selection and Banks became too Liberal, Reid also became an option but too Liberal now, and Barton is one of the safer Labor seats in Sydney that he has a chance of winning preselection. Preference flows Projections. On the other hand, there is real resentment against the Liberal government for classifying Burwood and Strathfield as LGAs of concern on flimsy grounds, and Sakr suffers from having no positive messages to draw in voters who are not rusted on Liberal or Maronite. Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 52.5% in the west to 56.9% in the east. At the 2019 election, pre-polls represented 11.5% of enrolment, and Postal and iVotes together 8.2%. I'm a by-election baby," he said. "It always is for governments in by-elections. Noting state Upper House member Rose Jackson and her husband, former Reid candidate, Sam Crosby have moved to the area. Map of Polling Places 2021; List of Polling Places 2021; . He was in nearly every photo with Burwood Mayor John Faker at the Citizenship Ceremony on Australia Day, and has been interviewed by Local Media for Chinese New Year. 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 In the Age, its reported that Elizabeth Farrelly tried to seek ALP preselection for Newtown. Green called it for the Opposition with just over 20 per cent of the vote counted. Many thanks in advance @El C:. Cause of by-election Sitting Labor MP Jodi McKay announced her retirement from parliament in October 2021, following her loss of the Labor leadership in May 2021. This link to Antony Green explains the very high number of postal votes. It is agitprop to pretend what was published today in The Daily Telegraph, does not exist, just because it doesn't suit one person's biased view. By-elections in Bega, Willoughby, Monaro and Strathfield will be held on February 12, with voters unable to vote online because of technological problems. This is because only 1 in 3 votes have been counted, and postal votes won't be counted until Saturday 19 February which is 7 days away. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. @El C: The Greens candidate Courtney Buckley has no info in her bio section. The seat had been vacated by former premier Gladys Berejiklian, who resigned amid a corruption probe into her ex-boyfriend last year. Prior to the 1999 election, Strathfield was redrawn to take in parts of the abolished Labor seat of Ashfield, cutting back McCarthys margin. I also do not necessarily object to the sources being used in an article about Li if one gets created. Postal votes were checked against in-person voting rolls to prevent double voting. Mr James described himself as a "loyal long-term Liberal". Only some of the pre-polling votes were counted, so the tentative data is heavily skewed and biased at present. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. She also gave a rather dignified response to the theft of her posters, and didnt assign blame to anyone. She was re-elected in 2007, and served as a minister in the Labor government from 2008 to 2011. McKay won the 2PP at the booth at Strathfield Girls High 53-47. Dominic Perrottet faces litmus test during NSW by-elections. Between the two there was a slight swing towards the local Sakr, but Yat-Sen Li did enough to hold the lead in the early results and will likely hold the seat for Labor. You are a better man than i cheers wd. [3]. 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. Zammit served as a junior minister in the Coalition state government from 1991 to 1995. "People generally keep to themselves and obviously reflect their intentions at the ballot box. 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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. Within statistics, we call this a non-representative sample with a high degree of built-in biases and sampling error. language. . Final figures have now been published for all four by-elections. WestSydPol YOU SERIOUSLY CANT WORK IT OUT !!??? indicate voters have turned against the coalition state government. It's Saturday 12 February 2022, by-election day in NSW. This is happening days out from an election. Looking at Playlet's contributions over the last 2 years, there's a pro Labor bias from Playlet, and that appears to be occurring here too. In 1996, he resigned from Strathfield and won the federal seat of Lowe. 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%). Booths in Strathfield have been split into three parts: east, south and west. Strathfield was first created in 1988 to replace the abolished electorate of Burwood. Having it isolated in this section gives the impression of an edit for partisan gain. McKay was a witness at the ICAC's 2014 inquiries into illegal political donations which uncovered evidence that former Labor figures had conspired with developers to defeat her in 2011. Each level of government has a law-making body - a parliament or council - which is made up of representatives elected by the people. Postal votes will be checked against in-person voting rolls to prevent double voting. Strathfield By-election - NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results - ABC News Strathfield By-election - NSW Election 2022 Share 80.7 % turnout, final figures ALP retain Jason Yat-Sen Li elected 0.8% swing to ALP Preference count Liberal Party Bridget Sakr 44.2% 17,160 Labor Jason Yat-Sen Li 55.8% 21,670 50% Ms Overall said the campaign had been a "tough fight". He was awarded the 2002 Eisenhower Fellowship with which he travelled to the USA to study the intersection of corporate, political and community interests. All Australians, who are eligible to vote, choose people to represent them at three levels of government. I have contributed to 5 out of the 6 candidates in a positive manner using published facts from the ABC, the SMH and the NSW AEC. @Redistributed- Allawah comes from his candidate declaration https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/State-government-elections/Strathfield-By-election/nominated-candidates Long story short, he wants to get into Federal politics. Current elections in NSW Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council countback election - 7 Feb 2023 Election of one Councillor North Sydney Council (St Leonards Ward) countback election - 21 Feb 2023 Election of one Councillor Lachlan Shire Council (D Ward) by-election - 25 Feb 2023 Election of one Councillor for D Ward The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green said Labor'sMichael Holland was set to win the seat with a swing of more than 13per cent. LJ Davidson Very nice of you to so patient. Her Coalitioncolleague Trent Zimmerman, the federal MP for North Sydney, described the resultas "a huge disappointment". For many years Farrelly wrote an at times controversial column for the Sydney Morning Heralnd on architecture, planning and politics. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 07:14, 11 February 2022 (UTC). The premier insisted Labor's vote had gone backwards in the electorate and vowed Ms Sakr would "win the election next year. 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. It must have commonsense solutions to difficult problems. And in Willoughby they were 9.6 per cent and 28.1 per cent respectively. The iVote online voting system will not be used at these elections after the system failed during the NSW local government elections in December 2021. "You must heed the message from the people of New South Wales in these by-election seats today. Votes Percentages Swings. Most of the votes were postal, counted a week later on 19 February 2022. ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green says Labor will win the NSW seat of Strathfield, and The . 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 party disappeared after the defeat of the Howard government in 2007. @KoalaAussieBlue: It is better to sort out the issues with the article here rather than edit warring. @JS She used to live in Redfern (in the Newtown electorate), she moved to Homebush last year and attempted unsuccessfully to get Labor preselection, so she is now an Independent candidate. Voters can vote using these packs, or choose to attend a pre-poll centre between 31 January and 11 February, or a polling place on polling day 12 February. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Live results: see who's ahead in each seat. Venue and Vote Types LI Jason Yat-Sen (LAB) SAKR Bridget (LIB) Exhausted Total Formal Informal Total; Voting Centres: Polling Day is Saturday 12 February with pre-poll voting from Monday 31 January. A by-election was held in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Strathfield on 12 February 2022, following the resignation of former leader of the Labor Party Jodi McKay. I strongly advocate for Courtney Buckley's bio to be filled in today, just like the 5 other candidates. First Preference Results Spreadsheet ; Status History. Strathfield Councillor Election. Nichole Overall had a buffer of about5per cent over Labor'sBryce Wilson with more than30per cent of the vote counted. Many thanks in advance. For more details on the by-election visit the NSW Electoral Commission's website.The by-election has been caused by the resignation from Parliament of former Labor Leader Jodi McKay. However, speaking at Labor's party in the electorate, Opposition Leader Chris Minns had a different take. It was first won in 1988 by Paul Zammit. "The Premier of New South Wales needs to listen to that message. The Liberals narrowly won the 2PP at the Concord booth, McKay won it pretty comfortably. It's not often you get four by-elections caused by such high profile departures from parliament, three former party leaders including a former Premier, Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader, and a former senior cabinet member.