Electoral district of Vaucluse

Vaucluse
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Vaucluse; New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
	Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1927–present
MP	Kellie Sloane
Party	Liberal Party
Namesake	Vaucluse
Electors	59,352 (2023)
Area	24.62 km2 (9.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
	Electorates around Vaucluse:

Vaucluse is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located just east of the district of Sydney in the Eastern Suburbs; it is named after the suburb of Vaucluse.

Vaucluse is one of two original (post-1927 redistribution) electorates to have never been held by the opposing Labor Party and continuously by the Liberal Party and its predecessor parties, the other being Hornsby. It has been represented in the past by former leaders of the Opposition Murray Robson and Peter Debnam; since 2023 the member for Vaucluse has been Kellie Sloane, who has also been leader of the Opposition since 2025.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Vaucluse takes in the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi Beach, Darling Point, Double Bay, Dover Heights, North Bondi, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Woollahra and parts of Bondi, Centennial Park, Edgecliff and Rushcutters Bay.

Members for Vaucluse

	Party	Period
William Foster	United Australia	1927–1936
Murray Robson	Ind. United Australia	1936–1938
	United Australia	1938–1945
	Liberal	1945–1957
Geoffrey Cox	Liberal	1957–1964
Keith Doyle	Liberal	1965–1978
Rosemary Foot	Liberal	1978–1986
Ray Aston	Liberal	1986–1988
Michael Yabsley	Liberal	1988–1994
Peter Debnam	Liberal	1994–2011
Gabrielle Upton	Liberal	2011–2023
Kellie Sloane	Liberal	2023–present

Election results

2023 New South Wales state election: Vaucluse^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	24,184	50.1	−6.8
	Independent	Karen Freyer	8,236	17.1	+17.1
	Labor	Margaret Merten	7,336	15.2	+2.5
	Greens	Dominic Wy Kanak	5,632	11.7	−2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Stevens	1,166	2.4	+2.4
	Sustainable Australia	Kay Dunne	863	1.8	+0.4
	Animal Justice	Edward Cameron	846	1.8	+0.4
Total formal votes			48,263	97.9	−0.3
Informal votes			1,055	2.1	+0.3
Turnout			49,318	83.1	−0.7
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	26,574	65.6	−5.0
	Labor	Margaret Merten	13,960	34.4	+5.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	25,763	62.9	−6.5
	Independent	Karen Freyer	15,206	37.1	+37.1
	Liberal hold

References

↑ LA First Preference: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
↑ LA Two Candidate Preferred: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

External links

"Vaucluse". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 September 2011.

[1] LA First Preference: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[2] LA Two Candidate Preferred: Vaucluse, NSW State Election Results 2023, NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

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