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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Bradfield, New South Wales
Northern Sydney: Killara, Lindfield, St Ives, Wahroonga
Sitting member: Hon Paul Fletcher (Liberal), elected 2004
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,735
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 20.8%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 20.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Peter Kelly
Australian Liberty Alliance |
2. Adrian Jones
Australian Greens |
3. Hon Paul Fletcher
Liberal Party |
4. Christine Berman
Independent |
5. Chris Vale
Christian Democrats |
6. Katie Gompertz
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Bradfield was created in 1949, occupying the upper-class heartland of Sydney's North Shore. Since then it has expanded somewhat to the north-west, into slightly less aristocratic areas, but it still has the second-highest median income level of any seat, and has the third-highest proportion of people in professional occupations. This makes Bradfield one of the safest Liberal seats in Australia, and indeed for many years it was the safest of all.
The first member for Bradfield was former Prime Minister Billy Hughes, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, who had previously been MP for North Sydney in the same region. Dr Brendan Nelson, who won Bradfield in 1996 only three years after leaving the Labor Party, was Defence Minister in the Howard Government and a short-lived Leader of the Liberal Party after the 2007 election defeat.
Paul Fletcher, Liberal MP for Bradfield since the 2009 by-election which followed Nelson's resignation, was an adviser to Liberal ministers and Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs with Optus before entering politics. He was expected to gain rapid promotion and has done so: he became a parliamentary secretary in 2013 and is now Minister for Territories, Local Government and Major Projects. Bradfield has been only slightly changed by the 2016
redistribution and is still one of the safest non-Labor seats in Australia.
The Labor candidate is Katie Gompertz, who runs a talent management agency.
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