I strongly advocate for Courtney Buckley's bio to be filled in today, just like the 5 other candidates. The first postal votes will not be opened until next weekend, meaning the final results will not be known until later this month. Current elections in NSW Hay Shire Council countback election - 26 Aug 2022 Election of one Councillor Snowy Monaro Regional Council countback election - 26 Aug 2022 Election of one Councillor Georges River Council (Mortdale Ward) countback election - 21 Sep 2022 Election of one Councillor in the Mortdale Ward The south-coast electorate has never been held by Labor since the seat was reinstated in 1988. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 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. Prior to the 1999 election, Strathfield was redrawn to take in parts of the abolished Labor seat of Ashfield, cutting back McCarthys margin. He had won the seat of Burwood in 1984, holding it for one term before it was abolished. 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. Voters in Willoughby were replacing outgoing Premier Gladys Berejiklian, with Independent Larissa Penn the unexpected second choice after a campaign on local environmental issues. 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. Party codes: (ALP) Labor, (LIB) Liberal, (GRN) Greens, (KSO) Keep Sydney Open, (CON) Australian Conservatives, (AJP) Animal Justice Party. Voters heavily favoured pre-poll and postal voting as part of COVID-19 pandemic measures, with less than a quarter of voters casting ordinary votes today. Live results: see who's ahead in each seat. 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. Postal votes must be completed by polling day and returned by at latest Friday 25 February. 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The numbers are controlled by NSW power broker Shaqouett Moselmane, who administers a lot of the branches in the FEC. Zoe Zaczek Digital Reporter 2 min read February 12, 2022 - 6:00PM Go to content. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 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 New South Wales Strathfield By-election 2022 Polling Place Results 2022. The Sydney Morning Herald is Australia's oldest masthead. Even if it was it is a policy issue not part of the candidate's background. 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. Whelan had held Ashfield since the 1976 election. [2] News; NSW; NSW by-elections 2022: Perrottet government down three votes when parliament sits next week. Strathfield has the fourth highest proportion of residents who commute by public transport (38.2%). Saturday 12th February 2022 - NSW By-Elections - Bega / Monaro / Strathfield / Willoughby. She holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney and has practiced in both the UK and Australia. @WestSydPol it was the 2 year anniversary of her daughters tragic death at the hands of a drugged driver. 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. "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. Thousands of people across the four electorates cast their votes early at pre-poll centres and by using postal ballots. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. He only held it for one term, as he resigned from the Liberal Party in 1998 in protest over aircraft noise. [3] Super Saturday starts in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as punters head to the polls in 4 electorates around 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 has a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from University of Sydney and a Graduate Certificate in Humans Resource Management from UTS. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/nsw-by-elections-polls-close-counting-begins/100825550. 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. It drew support from the Chinese-Australian community who were concerned that the Liberal Party did not do enough to counter Pauline Hanson in the late 1990s. 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. 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. "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. 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.". Despite the low in-person turnout, Labor candidate Michael Holland was the first to claim victory. Nominations for candidates closed seven days later at noon on 27 January, with the ballot paper draw commencing in the morning of 28 January. 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. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 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. Antony Green is the ABC's Chief Elections Analyst. At the end of the pre-polling period on Friday 11 February, 8,993 pre-polls had been taken representing 16.3% of enrolment and 14,614 postal votes had been returned representing 26.4% of enrolment. "The Premier of New South Wales needs to listen to that message. Can somebody please explain where the Allawah comes from? @El C: We appear to be arguing about facts published in the ABC and the SMH. Interestingly, the area would fall under the right normally but Burney herself is a member of the Left. "We always knew it was going to be a tough fight here. 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. He ran as an independent in Lowe at the 1998 federal election, losing to the ALPs John Murphy. The local medical specialist will likely replace former Transport Minister Andrew Constance to be the first Labor representative of the area, but Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs has refused to concede defeat until the full results are known. Labor hope people forget about Shaqouett Moselmane and Murnains Aldi bag Chinese developer scandal. 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. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Zammit resigned in 1996 to win election as member for Lowe at that year's Federal election and was succeeded at a by-election by Bruce MacCarthy. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. 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%). Commentary on the results can be found via the Commentary page at the top of the screen. He had served as a minister in the Wran Labor government from 1981 to 1984. 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. Strathfield's almost 80,000 constituents will head to the polls next Saturday to cast their ballot for one of six candidates. This is happening days out from an election. Unity was a small party formed in opposition to Pauline Hanson's One Nation. 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. Both are good candidates, I have my reservations about Jason but there could be worse. And in Willoughby they were 9.6 per cent and 28.1 per cent respectively. 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. "You must heed the message from the people of New South Wales in these by-election seats today. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/key-labor-candidate-says-parliament-needs-ethnic-diversity-targets-20190423-p51geh.html Meanwhile, there wasa swingto Labor in the regional electorateof Monaro former deputy premier John Barilaro's old seat but Green called it for The Nationals just after 8:30pm. Liberal Paul Zammit won Burwood back for the Liberal Party in 1984 and was elected as the first MP for Strathfield in 1988. Then hed have to be looking at Local Government or just squeaking into the Upper House. Neither of which have anything to do with Strathfield. I have seen 0 news coverage of Jason Yat-Sen Li and sure I expected more coverage of Bridget Sakr when she announced her candidacy for obvious reasons but cmon, having coverage of sign stealing for Sakr and having absolutely 0 news for Yat Sen Li simply isnt right. When the state seat of Strathfield was first contested in the 1980s and 1990s, the area was more Liberal leaning than NSW, but that trend disappeared as the electorate expanded further east and as the demography of the district changed. History The electoral district of Strathfield has existed since 1988. This is the benefit of having diversity in parliament regardless of political party. From 1996 to 1998 Li worked for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands and in 1998 returned to Australia to lead a number of political campaigns including high profile involvment in the campaign for Australia to become a Republic. And a seemingly bottomless pit of mail outs (received 3 already). Judge was re-elected on new boundaries at the 2007 election, but her majority was not enough to survive Labor's landslide 2011 defeat. 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. 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. The seat had been vacated by former premier Gladys Berejiklian, who resigned amid a corruption probe into her ex-boyfriend last year. 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ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green said Labor'sMichael Holland was set to win the seat with a swing of more than 13per cent. In my meeting with Chris Minns yesterday, Labor will be targeting Greens via socials to place Labor second on their ballots. But you have failed to demonstrate that these issues belong in an article about this by-election. WestSydPol YOU SERIOUSLY CANT WORK IT OUT !!??? Casuscelli held Strathfield for one term, losing in 2015 to Labor candidate Jodi McKay. . The Liberals and their candidate, Tim James, sustained a swing against themin Willoughby. If he cant win a relatively Labor seat, I would assume his political aspirations in the short to mid term would be halted. 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.". KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 07:28, 13 February 2022 (UTC), KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 07:28, 13 February 2022 (UTC), For the bio section, would it be possible to add Courtney Buckley is a photographer please? Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. [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. 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. KoalaAussieBlue (talk) 09:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC), Im at a Strathfield electorate polling station all day, and can confirm the number of people voting today is extremely low compared to previous years. 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. There is a pattern of attempted changes specifically targeting. 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. Again, I do not object to the sources. The state seat based on Burwood and Strathfield had long been a Liberal voting enclave in Sydney's inner-west. iVote is not available but see note below on postal voting. In the Age, its reported that Elizabeth Farrelly tried to seek ALP preselection for Newtown. This is quite unreasonable and/or biased against her, and no one is standing up for her democratic rights here. "Many people in New South Wales sent the Premier of New South Wales a message on their behalf at the ballot box today," he said. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Postal votes were checked against in-person voting rolls to prevent double voting. Two words showed something was wrong with the system, After centuries of Murdaugh rule in the Deep South, the family's power ends with a life sentence for murder, Flooding in southern Malaysia forces 40,000 people to flee homes, When Daniel picked up a dropped box on a busy road, he had no idea it would lead to the 'best present ever', Plans to redevelop 'eyesore' on prime riverside land fall apart as billionaires exit, Labor's pledge for mega koala park in south-west Sydney welcomed by conservation groups, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies aged 61. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. The government has brushed off suggestions of the overall importance of these by-elections, with Liberal MP Victor Dominello explaining a swing against the government was expected in by-elections. . Looked at the booth by booth breakdown and compared it with the corresponding booths in the federal electorate of Reid. In Monaro, 23.1 per cent had cast a pre-poll and 15.3 per cent of postal votes had been returned. 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. 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: The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. The iVote online voting system was not used at these elections after the system failed during the NSW local government elections in December 2021. McKay was the presenter of NBN television news in Newcastle for 15 years before working in marketing and communications and later establishing her own corporate, media and public relations business. 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]. [3]. 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. On NSWEC website, it has Allawah for Jason Lis locality but in the SMH today it says he lives in Cremorne. I'm a by-election baby," he said. @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. ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green said Labor's Michael Holland was set to win the seat with a swing of more than 13 per cent. "The Premier of New South Wales needs to listen to that message. Polling place results. 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". Assessment Strathfield is a reasonably marginal seat, but it seems unlikely the Liberal Party could win this by-election. All Australians, who are eligible to vote, choose people to represent them at three levels of government. Read and follow the instructions in the postal vote pack carefully. Plus Burwood has been swamped by red shirts and nearly half of the Labor State and Federal caucus. Booths in Strathfield have been split into three parts: east, south and west. Strathfield covers parts of Ashfield, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury and Strathfield local government areas, specifically the suburbs of Croydon, Burwood, Enfield, Homebush andStrathfield. It may belong on Berejiklians page or Barilaros page. It must listen to expert advice. Full Preference Report. In Strathfield, these numbers were 16.3 per cent and 26.4 per cent respectively. Like I said I am happy to work with you to improve the page but it has to be relevant to the topic Playlet (talk) 20:33, 9 February 2022 (UTC). She launched a national i4Give Day for victims families to assist with the healing/grieving process. Nominations for candidates closed seven days later at noon on 27 January, with the ballot paper draw commencing in the morning of 28 January. But as counting progressed, Labor's Jason Yat-Sen Yi pulled ahead. 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. It's Saturday 12 February 2022, by-election day in NSW. 12 February 2022 Strathfield State by-election Final count reports: Check Count First . language. The counting of postal ballot papers will begin on Saturday 19 February. The writs for election were issued on 21 January 2022. Jason, like many Labor hopefuls, was sniffing around waiting for Linda Burney to retire to then run for Barton, hence the Allawah address. By-elections in Bega, Willoughby, Monaro and Strathfield will be held on February 12, with voters unable to vote online because of technological problems. 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. Nichole Overall had a buffer of about5per cent over Labor'sBryce Wilson with more than30per cent of the vote counted. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. While Labor isn't running a candidate in the seat, independent Larissa Penn is polling well. "You have done an amazing job. Similarly, voters in Monaro were replacing outgoing Deputy Premier John Barilaro, with the Nationals likely holding the seat despite losing ground in the early swing to Labor. Polls have now closed in NSW's four by-elections, but regraldess of the immediate result . February 2022 State By-Elections 12-FEB-2022 First Preference Votes Report Parliamentary Election: Strathfield Report was last updated on - 26/02/2022 1:31:20 PM. "I'm really pleased that I've spent every day of the past four months fighting as hard as I can.". The electoratewas created in 1988and has never been won by Labor. He was awarded the 2002 Eisenhower Fellowship with which he travelled to the USA to study the intersection of corporate, political and community interests. 12 February 2022 Monaro State by-election Final count reports: . McKay had previously represented Newcastle from 2007 until 2011, and had served as a minister from 2008 until 2011. Sakr's life was upturned in February 2020 when her daughter and three cousins were killed while walking along Bettington Road in Oatlands. 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. @El C: The Greens candidate Courtney Buckley has no info in her bio section.