Electoral district of Macquarie Fields

Macquarie Fields is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, located in the outer south-western suburbs of Sydney. It is currently represented by Anoulack Chanthivong of the Labor Party.

Macquarie Fields New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1988–1991, 1999–present
MP	Anoulack Chanthivong
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Macquarie Fields
Electors	61,782 (2019)
Area	94.19 km2 (36.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan
Electorates around Macquarie Fields: Leppington Leppington Holsworthy Leppington Macquarie Fields Holsworthy Leppington Campbelltown Campbelltown

Geography

On its current boundaries, Macquarie Fields takes in the suburbs of Bardia, Bow Bowing, Casula, Cross Roads, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Eschol Park, Glenfield, Ingleburn, Kearns, Kentlyn, Leppington, Leumeah, Long Point, Macquarie Fields, Macquarie Links, Minto, Minto Heights, Raby, St Andrews and Varroville.^[1]

Members for Macquarie Fields

First incarnation (1988—1991)
Member		Party	Term
	Stan Knowles [2]	Labor	1988–1990
	Craig Knowles [3]	Labor	1990–1991
Second incarnation (1999—present)
Member		Party	Term
	Craig Knowles [3]	Labor	1999–2005
	Steven Chaytor [4]	Labor	2005–2007
	Andrew McDonald [5]	Labor	2007–2015
	Anoulack Chanthivong [6]	Labor	2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Macquarie Fields

2023 New South Wales state election: Macquarie Fields^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Anoulack Chanthivong	28,089	57.1	+3.7
	Liberal	Khairul Chowdhury	10,682	21.7	−6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Gemma Noiosi	4,122	8.4	+8.3
	Greens	Seamus Lee	2,349	4.8	+0.6
	Animal Justice	Donna Wilson	2,346	4.8	+4.5
	Sustainable Australia	Michael Clark	1,606	3.3	+3.3
Total formal votes			49,194	95.6	+0.2
Informal votes			2,266	4.4	−0.2
Turnout			51,460	86.3	−0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anoulack Chanthivong	30,468	69.9	+5.0
	Liberal	Khairul Chowdhury	13,141	30.1	−5.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.0

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Macquarie Fields.[edit]

References

1. "Macquarie Fields". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
2. "Mr (Stan) Stanley Alfred James Knowles (1931– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
3. "The Hon. Craig John Knowles (1959– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
4. "Mr Steven John Chaytor (1976- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
5. "Dr Andrew Dominic McDonald (1955- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
6. "Mr Anoulack Chanthivong MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
7. LA First Preference: Macquarie Fields, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
8. LA Two Candidate Preferred: Macquarie Fields, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.