My two cents on the three main candidates: Labor seem to assume Jason Li will appeal to the ethnic vote (speaking as one in the area) his Bennelong run should have shown how unsafe this assumption is. She would honestly get more votes running in the Willoughby by-election than here. Plus Burwood has been swamped by red shirts and nearly half of the Labor State and Federal caucus. 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. "So, I just want to say how proud I am as a Liberal to be here standing before you and to thank all of you, party staff, members, volunteers and friends, standing in the rain as you did, thank you so, so much for your great contribution," he said at his victory function. Buckley describes herself as impassioned climate activist, sport accessibility advocate and community hub organiser and hopes to bring a fresh grassroots voice to the issue of public services. Playlet (talk) 13:24, 9 February 2022 (UTC), @El C: NSW Liberal Government found to have favoured Liberal electorates by distributing 96% of their controversial $252 million council grants program to their Liberal electorates with no merit-based assessment applied to those funded projects To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. 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. 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. SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY - STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT/CORRUPTION. Looked at the booth by booth breakdown and compared it with the corresponding booths in the federal electorate of Reid. - Ready : No results will be available prior to 6.00 pm on Election Night Antony Green calls Strathfield and Monaro by-election results. February 2022 State By-Elections 12-FEB-2022 Two Candidate Preferred Report Parliamentary Election: Strathfield Report was last updated on - 26/02/2022 1:31:20 PM. two-party preferred results by polling place and vote type. The media for some reason is Showing Bias to Bridget Sakr. It must have commonsense solutions to difficult problems. 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. Strathfield State by-election 12 February 2022. Strathfield and Monaro called 12 Feb 2022, 1:39am By Paige Cockburn Key Event ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green says Labor's Jason Yat-Sen Li will win the seat of Strathfield in Sydney's inner west. "The idea that Monaro is ever a safe seat is never actually the case," she told the ABC. @El C: There are distracting accusations and emotive language being directed towards me here; I do wish to remain focused on the information being provided within this article, linked to reliable sources. The graph of first preference votes includes an entry for a party called Unity that contested elections from 1999 to 2007. She launched a national i4Give Day for victims families to assist with the healing/grieving process. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 07:14, 11 February 2022 (UTC). Access and review the results of past State government elections run by the NSW Electoral Commission. Read and follow the instructions in the postal vote pack carefully. @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. @El C: We appear to be arguing about facts published in the ABC and the SMH. 12 February 2022 Strathfield State by-election Final count reports: Check Count First . 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 electoratewas created in 1988and has never been won by Labor. Liberal Paul Zammit won Burwood back for the Liberal Party in 1984 and was elected as the first MP for Strathfield in 1988. Farrelly is an author, architecture critic, essayist, columnist and public speaker. 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. 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. For the first time all electors will be sent a postal vote pack. I also do not necessarily object to the sources being used in an article about Li if one gets created. Robertson is currently serving on 3 Local Council Advisory Committees, is an Executive Board Member for the Australian Local Government Womens Association, a Board Member of SouthWest Sydney Christian SRE and a Committee Member of SMA Australia as well as being a financial member of several environmental and animal welfare organisations. ABC News Homepage. This is happening days out from an election. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. Sakr's life was upturned in February 2020 when her daughter and three cousins were killed while walking along Bettington Road in Oatlands. Booths inStrathfield have been split into three parts: east, south and west. The counting of postal ballot papers will begin on Saturday 19 February. 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. 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. [3]. [1], The Strathfield by-election was held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega, Monaro and Willoughby. On NSWEC website, it has Allawah for Jason Lis locality but in the SMH today it says he lives in Cremorne. "We do know enough about the results that have come in so far to be confident that we will claim the seat of Bega and the seat of Strathfield in today's by-elections," said NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns. In Strathfield, high-profile Liberal candidateBridget Sakr wastrying to win the seat off Labor for the first time since 2015. Dominic Perrottet faces litmus test during NSW by-elections. McKay resigned the Labor leadership in May 2021 and stepped down from Strathfield in October 2021. I'm a by-election baby," he said. Judge was defeated by Liberal Charles Casuscelli after a swing of 19.4%. 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: ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green says Labor will win the NSW seat of Strathfield, and The . Seems like Strathfield would have been a more realistic way for her to get into Parliament. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Postal votes must be completed by polling day and returned by at latest Friday 25 February. 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 Strathfield lies in Sydney's inner western suburbs and takes in all of Burwood Council, almost all of Strathfield Council, and smaller parts of Inner West and Canada Bay Councils. And a seemingly bottomless pit of mail outs (received 3 already). He contested Granville at the 2019 NSW election and Reid seven weeks later at the 2019 Federal election. Map of Polling Places 2021; List of Polling Places 2021; . Bridget Sakr will be the member for Strathfield." "You have done an amazing job. 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. Go to content. "It's been an incredible swing to our party, it's been a plebiscite on a couple of things, it's been a reflection of the community's response to the current government and our need to be heard with our concerns," said Holland. The state seat based on Burwood and Strathfield had long been a Liberal voting enclave in Sydney's inner-west. "I want to congratulate Tim James and the campaign team at Willoughby," said Perrottet, "and also acknowledge the former Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian for everything that she has done in service of the people of Willoughby and importantly as Premier of our great state, particularly over the last two years, what has been an incredibly difficult time.". The Liberals and their candidate, Tim James, sustained a swing against themin Willoughby. History The electoral district of Strathfield has existed since 1988. However, speaking at Labor's party in the electorate, Opposition Leader Chris Minns had a different take. By-elections in Bega, Willoughby, Monaro and Strathfield will be held on February 12, with voters unable to vote online because of technological problems. ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green said Labor'sMichael Holland was set to win the seat with a swing of more than 13per cent. Laxmanalal was born in Westmead and has lived in Western Sydney for most of his life and his professional background is in Finance and Mathematics. They were struck by a vehicle driven by a drunk and drugged driver who lost control while speeding. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. (See graph below map.). [2], The NSW Electoral Commission pre-emptively sent postal ballots to all voters registered on the state electoral roll, under a regulation in a COVID amendment to the Electoral Act. The Sydney Morning Herald is Australia's oldest masthead. Geography Inner West Sydney. Strathfield has one of the highest proportions of non-English speakers, and the fear is that this could increase the rate of informal voting.[8]. Li holds Arts and Law degrees from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Law from New York University Law School. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 03:40, 12 February 2022 (UTC), https://antonygreen.com.au/2022-nsw-by-elections-tracking-the-early-vote/. The Greens garner close to 10% of the votes in this State electoral district of Strathfield. Votes werealso held in the electorates of Willoughby, Strathfield and Monaro. @WestSydPol it was the 2 year anniversary of her daughters tragic death at the hands of a drugged driver. The numbers are controlled by NSW power broker Shaqouett Moselmane, who administers a lot of the branches in the FEC. 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. Former transport minister and Bega MP Andrew Constanceresigned from the NSW parliament last year to concentrate on a tilt at federal politics. Nominations for candidates closed seven days later at noon on 27 January, with the ballot paper draw commencing in the morning of 28 January. language. 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. "I've been here [in Bega] pretty much all day, in Strathfield for three or four days, and not once has anybody come up and said they were particularly upset or angry at the government on a given issue. I strongly advocate for Courtney Buckley's bio to be filled in today, just like the 5 other candidates. Whelan had held Ashfield since the 1976 election. Final figures have now been published for all four by-elections. Full Preference Report. @El C: The Greens candidate Courtney Buckley has no info in her bio section. Make no mistake that Labor has gone backwards," he said. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 00:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC) KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 00:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC), Protected edit request on 8 February 2022, Protected edit request on 11 February 2022, Protected edit request on 11 February 2022 (2), Protected edit request on 13 February 2022, Protected edit request on 15 February 2022, Last edited on 20 February 2022, at 03:55, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/troubling-council-grants-program-lacked-integrity-nsw-auditor-general-20220208-p59uos.html, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/key-labor-candidate-says-parliament-needs-ethnic-diversity-targets-20190423-p51geh.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2022_Strathfield_state_by-election&oldid=1072921079, This page was last edited on 20 February 2022, at 03:55. This link to Antony Green explains the very high number of postal votes. Antony Green calls Strathfield and Monaro by-election results, Scientists hope to learn new tricks from dogs from radioactive Chernobyl, Prime Minister dismisses Greens' calls to expand scale of super changes, Alex Murdaugh handed two life sentences for murder of wife, son, Bakhmut under siege as Ukrainian defenders consider retreat, International drug operation stops $1b worth of cocaine, Magnificent aurora australis stuns stargazers in Western Australia, How to spot greenwashing terms in fashion, food and cosmetics, Newly-engineered varieties of fruits to land in Australia, 54 people drowned on the Australian coast over summer period. 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. In Monaro, 23.1 per cent had cast a pre-poll and 15.3 per cent of postal votes had been returned. Mr James described himself as a "loyal long-term Liberal". The full count in Willoughby is likely to be a close preference battle between James and Penn, with Premier Dominic Perrottet confident that the government will hold the seat. Full display of results: Bega, Monaro, Strathfield and Willoughby. Strathfield has the fourth highest proportion of residents who commute by public transport (38.2%). Maybe overdoing it slightly. In the days before the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened up Sydney's north shore, Strathfield was a desirable suburb for Sydney's better classes. But when the media covers her when strangers taking down her signs at the dead of night Like really, That happens every election. However, a majority is expected to vote early by optional postal vote, potentially adding weeks to the counting process. 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. 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. She was re-elected in 2007, and served as a minister in the Labor government from 2008 to 2011. 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%). 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 In my meeting with Chris Minns yesterday, Labor will be targeting Greens via socials to place Labor second on their ballots. Postal vote processing will not begin until Wednesday 16 February, after rolls for in-person voting have been scanned. The government needs to change direction. Many thanks in advance @El C:. Venue and Vote Types LI Jason Yat-Sen (LAB) SAKR Bridget (LIB) Exhausted Total Formal Informal Total; Voting Centres: Whelan was succeeded by Strathfield mayor Virginia Judge in 2003. 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 government needs to change direction.". NSW voters hit the polls for Super Saturday by-elections in Bega, Monaro, Willoughby and Strathfield New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition Leader Chris Minns were put to the test on Saturday as thousands of residents hit the polls for four by-elections. She went straight back to the frontbench after returning to parliament in 2015, and was elected Labor leader after the 2019 election. Posted Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 12:05pm. 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. "I'm really pleased that I've spent every day of the past four months fighting as hard as I can.". Unity was a small party formed in opposition to Pauline Hanson's One Nation. 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. The first postal votes will not be opened until next weekend, meaning the final results will not be known until later this month. Bridget is extremely approachable and competent. Fiona Martin won it 53-47. McKay won the 2PP at the booth at Strathfield Girls High 53-47. Li was the Labor candidate for Bennelong at the 2013 Federal election, a Labor candidate for the NSW Senate in 2019 and had again been chosen as the third Labor Senate candidate for the 2022 election before being announced as Labor's candidate for Strathfield. Get a wrap of the key stories and analysis from the ABC's chief politics writer Annabel Crabb. McKay had previously represented Newcastle from 2007 until 2011, and had served as a minister from 2008 until 2011. "People generally keep to themselves and obviously reflect their intentions at the ballot box. 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. So overall, I think a Labor hold, but perhaps tighter than they anticipated. Strathfield was first created in 1988 to replace the abolished electorate of Burwood. Will be interesting to see when I go to pre-poll today. 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. Despite the low in-person turnout, Labor candidate Michael Holland was the first to claim victory. Strathfield covers parts of Ashfield, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury and Strathfield local government areas, specifically the suburbs of Croydon, Burwood, Enfield, Homebush andStrathfield. OLA North Strathfield. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. And in Willoughby they were 9.6 per cent and 28.1 per cent respectively. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. The Strathfield by-election is being held on the same day as by-elections for the districts of Bega Monaro and Willoughby. 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. See how the night unfoldedwith ourby-elections blog. Click for more details of two-party preferred results by polling place and vote type. iVote is not available but see note below on postal voting. Strathfield Legislative Council Result: Labor 36.6%, Coalition 35.4%, Greens 8.8%, Christian Democrats 3.0%, One Nation 2.9%, Liberal Democrats 2.8%, Keep Sydney Open 2.4%, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers 1.7%, Animal Justice 1.6%, Others 4.8%. 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. Born to Greek parents, Robertson is living with a significant physical disability and gets about in a motorised wheelchair. Zoe Zaczek Digital Reporter 2 min read February 12, 2022 - 6:00PM Live results and projections for New South Wales state by-elections New South Wales By-Elections 2022 Results Primary vote Two-candidate preferred. 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. [7], There was criticism from the chair of the Ethnic Communities' Council of NSW Peter Doukas that the voting packs that were sent out to voters was not sent out in multiple languages. Former labor leader and member for Strathfield Jodi McKay was the person who fought hard to Reinstate Shaqouett Moselmane to his power broker position after the AFP investigated him and raided his offices with allegations of accepting bribes from Chinese developers and so called Chinese friends of Labor. The media blackout started at midnight last night. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. After the defeat she moved to Sydney and took up a job as Communications Director for Family Planning NSW. Unity polled well for several elections in seats like Strathfield, Kogarah and Ryde where there was and still is a significant middle-class Chinese-Australian community. She holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney and has practiced in both the UK and Australia. The seat was held until 1999 by the Liberal Party, and by Labor from 1999 to 2011, when the Liberal Party won it back. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Thousands of people across the four electorates cast their votes early at pre-poll centres and by using postal ballots. Of course Playlet will say no, it is a pattern of inflexible black and white thinking. . 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. Super Saturday starts in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as punters head to the polls in 4 electorates around NSW.