Cabramatta New South Wales—Legislative Assembly |
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Location within Sydney
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State | New South Wales |
Created | 1981 |
MP | Nick Lalich |
Party | Australian Labor Party |
Electors | 55,076 (2015) |
Area | 26 km2 (10.0 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner Metropolitan |
Cabramatta is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. Its current member is Nick Lalich of the Australian Labor Party.
Cabramatta is a 25.73 km² urban electorate in Sydney's south-west, centred on the suburb of Cabramatta from which it takes its name. It also includes the suburbs of Bonnyrigg, Bonnyrigg Heights, Cabramatta West, Canley Vale, Edensor Park, Greenfield Park, Lansvale, Mount Pritchard and St Johns Park.
The Cabramatta electorate was created in 1981, and has overwhelmingly voted Labor ever since its inception, as it lies in one of the city's most underprivileged areas, with poverty, drugs and crime ongoing issues. It remains one of the party's safest seats in New South Wales, and the conservative Liberal Party barely polls at all in the electorate. The minor multiculturalist Unity Party also polls well in the electorate due to the very high level of migrants in the area; Unity beat the Liberal Party by more than two thousand votes in 1999, though it slipped back to a narrow fourth in 2003.