Division of Chifley

The Division of Chifley is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

Chifley Australian House of Representatives Division
Interactive map of electorate boundaries from the 2025 federal election
Created	1969
MP	Ed Husic
Party	Labor
Namesake	Ben Chifley
Electors	116,687 (2025)
Area	113 km2 (43.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer metropolitan
Electorates around Chifley: Lindsay Macquarie Greenway Lindsay Chifley Greenway Lindsay McMahon McMahon
Footnotes
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Chifley is located in outer western Sydney. It includes Rooty Hill, Doonside, Woodcroft, Dean Park, parts of Marayong and Blacktown, and all the suburbs of the Mt Druitt housing estate.^[2]

History

Ben Chifley, the division's namesake

The division was created in 1969 and is named for Ben Chifley, who was Prime Minister of Australia 1945–49.

Chifley has been won by the Labor Party at every federal election since its creation in 1969, and at the 2007 federal election was one of Labor's safest seats.^[3] The Member for Chifley, since the 2010 federal election, is Ed Husic, a member of the Australian Labor Party.

Geography

Four of the candidates who stood for election for the Division of Chifley at the 2007 federal election address electors at a public meeting in Shalvey on 11 November 2007. They are (seated at rear) Roger Price (ALP), Dave Vincent (CDP), James Cogan (Socialist) and (standing) John Forrester (Greens)

The division is located in the western suburbs of Sydney. On its original boundaries it was based on Blacktown, but now includes the suburbs of Angus, Bidwill, Blackett, Colebee, Dean Park, Dharruk, Doonside, Emerton, Glendenning, Hassall Grove, Hebersham, Lethbridge Park, Marayong, Marsden Park, Melonba, Mount Druitt, Nirimba Fields, Oakhurst, Plumpton, Richards, Rooty Hill, Ropes Crossing, Shalvey, Shanes Park, Tregear, Whalan, Willmot, and Woodcroft; as well as parts of Blacktown, Eastern Creek, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, and Schofields.

Since 1984 federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.^[4]

Demographics

Chifley is home to immigrant communities from the Philippines, India, and Fiji,^[5] and is heavily Catholic at 30.8% with a larger-than-average Muslim population at 8.3%.^[5] Some voters are socially conservative, particularly those of religious background.^[6]

The current MP is Ed Husic, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Husic himself comes from a Bosnian Muslim family, but describes himself as non-practising Muslim.^[2]

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		John Armitage (1920–2009)	Labor	25 October 1969 – 4 February 1983	Previously held the Division of Mitchell. Retired
		Russ Gorman (1926–2017)		5 March 1983 – 1 December 1984	Transferred to the Division of Greenway
		Roger Price (1945–)		1 December 1984 – 19 July 2010	Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Rudd and Gillard. Retired
		Ed Husic (1970–)		21 August 2010 – present	Incumbent. Served as minister under Albanese

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Chifley

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in New South Wales § Chifley.[edit]

2025 Australian federal election: Chifley^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ed Husic	47,078	52.65	−0.35
	Liberal	Allan Green	17,613	19.70	−4.92
	Greens	Sukhjinder Singh	8,724	9.76	+4.08
	One Nation	Tony Nikolic	5,338	5.97	−0.24
	Family First	Jamie Green	5,336	5.97	+5.97
	Trumpet of Patriots	Ryan Archer	2,237	2.50	+2.50
	Animal Justice	Rohan Laxmanalal	1,569	1.75	+1.75
	Independent	Leigh Burns	1,519	1.70	+1.70
Total formal votes			89,414	86.45	−4.66
Informal votes			14,013	13.55	+4.66
Turnout			103,427	88.67	+3.93
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ed Husic	62,440	69.83	+6.18
	Liberal	Allan Green	26,974	30.17	−6.18
	Labor hold		Swing	+6.18

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in New South Wales § Chifley.[edit]

2022 Australian federal election: Chifley^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ed Husic	51,236	52.72	−1.58
	Liberal	Jugandeep Singh	24,046	24.74	−3.18
	One Nation	Amit Batish	6,034	6.21	+6.21
	Greens	Sujan Selventhiran	5,622	5.78	+0.72
	United Australia	Zvetanka Raskov	5,149	5.30	+0.76
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Roughley	3,263	3.36	+3.36
	Independent	Ammar Khan	1,839	1.89	+0.15
Total formal votes			97,189	91.12	+0.78
Informal votes			9,471	8.88	−0.78
Turnout			106,660	87.95	−2.01
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ed Husic	61,682	63.47	+1.10
	Liberal	Jugandeep Singh	35,507	36.53	−1.10
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.10

Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Chifley in the 2022 federal election. The winning candidate got over 50% of first preference votes, so this alluvial diagram is indicative only, and preference flows were not used to determine the final result. The preference flows were used to determine the two-candidate-preferred.