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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Lindsay, New South Wales
Outer western Sydney: Emu Plains, Glenmore Park, Penrith, St Marys
Sitting member: Fiona Scott (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 109,779
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 3.0%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 3.0%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Marcus Cornish
Independent |
2. Kingsley Liu
Australian Greens |
3. Fiona Scott
Liberal Party |
4. Scott Grimley
Derryn Hinch's Justice Party |
5. Emma Husar
Australian Labor Party |
6. Steve Roddick
Australian Liberty Alliance |
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7. Warren Wormald
Christian Democrats |
8. Deborah Blundell
Animal Justice Party |
9. Dr Jim Saleam
Australia First |
10. Linda La Brooy
Family First |
11. Stephen Lynch
Nick Xenophon Team |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Lindsay was created in 1984, taking in a stretch of Sydney's outer western suburbs based on Penrith. The seat was one of the most commonly associated
with the "Howard battlers": upwardly-mobile skilled workers and contractors with aspirations to join the middle class. The presence of this class in
Lindsay can be seen in the relatively high level of median family income, compared with the very low proportion of people in professional occupations.
Lindsay is also a mortgage belt seat, with high proportions of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased.
The seat includes the Labor stronghold of St Marys at its eastern end, and Labor also polls well in central Penrith. But the best of suburbs around
Penrith, such as Emu Heights, Glenmore Park and York, generally vote Liberal. This makes the seat a finely-balanced marginal which is hotly contested
at every election. Lindsay's boundaries have not been changed by the 2016 redistribution.
Lindsay was held by Labor's Ross Free, a junior minister in the Keating government, until the 1996 Liberal landslide, when he was defeated by Jackie
Kelly, a favourite of John Howard and a junior minister in his government. When she abruptly retired in 2007, and her successor's husband was involved
in a scandal involving bogus election leaflets, Labor's David Bradbury won the seat with a 12% swing. He was a minister in the Rudd-Gillard government,
and was narrowly re-elected in 2010, but in 2013 he was defeated.
Fiona Scott, Liberal MP for Lindsay since 2013, was a company marketing manager and a partner in a marketing business before her election. This is not a
secure seat and will be high on Labor's target list. Labor's candidate is Emma Husar, a Penrith City Councillor, who contested Penrith at the 2015 NSW
state election.
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