Electoral district of Riverstone

Riverstone New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Electoral district of Riverstone (brown) within Sydney
State	New South Wales
Created	1981
MP	Kevin Conolly
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Riverstone
Electors	52,137 (2015)
Area	73.42 km2 (28.3 sq mi)

Riverstone is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Kevin Conolly of the Liberal Party.

Riverstone is a 73 km² urban and semi-rural electorate in Sydney's north west, taking in the suburbs of Acacia Gardens, Glenwood, Parklea, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Schofields, Stanhope Gardens, The Ponds and parts of Kellyville Ridge, Marsden Park, Rouse Hill and Vineyard.

Much of the electorate is situated in the growing north-west sector, which has been poorly served in transport, health and police resources. Although ancestrally a Labor seat, changing demographics in the eastern portion of the seat (Glenwood, Stanhope Gardens, Kellyville Ridge, Rouse Hill) suggested a long-term Liberal trend in voting patterns. Proving this, Liberal Kevin Conolly won the seat in 2011 on a swing of 30.2 percent--almost unheard of in Australian politics--turning the seat from safe Labor to very safe Liberal in one stroke.