Electoral district of Albury

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Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently held by Gregory Aplin.

Albury has generally been considered as a heartland seat for the conservative parties, and the Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors have held the seat for almost all of its history. While there have been several instances of the Australian Labor Party breaking the conservative hold on the seat, these have typically been short-lived and have occurred only at the peak of a popular government. There has been only one major exception to this: former Albury mayor Harold Mair won the seat for Labor in 1978 and held it for a decade before being swept away in the landslide Labor defeat of 1988. The Albury electorate has since reverted to its traditional tendencies - the current Liberal member, Greg Aplin, was returned with more than 60% of the vote in 2003, and Labor finished fourth behind Aplin and two independents. It is thus likely that the main potential concern for Liberal candidates in Albury in the immediate future will come from rural independent candidates.

Albury includes both urban and rural areas, covering 5,778.53 sq km. There were 42,635 people enrolled within the electorate as of April 1999. The 2004 redistribution of electorates estimated that the electorate would have 48,988 electors on 29 April 2007. Albury currently encompassed the local government areas of the City of Albury (including Albury), Greater Hume Shire (Culcairn and Holbrook), Corowa Shire (Corowa and Howlong) and Tumbarumba Shire (Tumbarumba) and a small part of Tumut Shire (Cabramurra).

1 History
2 Members
3 Election results
4 External links

Albury was first created in 1880 from part of Hume and is named after Albury. From 1920 to 1927, it was combined with most of Corowa, Murray and Wagga Wagga as a four-member electorate called Murray.

	Party	Term
George Day	Independent	1880—1889
John Wilkinson	Independent	1889—1895
Richard Ball	Free Trade	1895—1898
Thomas Griffith	Independent	1898—1904
Gordon McLaurin	Progressive	1904—1913
John Cusack	Labor	1913—1917
Arthur Manning	Nationalist	1917—1920
John Ross	Nationalist	1927—1930
Joseph Fitzgerald	Labor	1930—1932
Alexander Mair	United Australia	1932—1944
Alexander Mair	Liberal	1944—1946
Cornelius Hurley	Labor	1946—1947
Dudley Padman	Liberal	1947—1965
Gordon Mackie	Liberal	1965—1978
Harold Mair	Labor	1978—1988
Ian Glachan	Liberal	1988—2003
Greg Aplin	Liberal	2003—present

¹ There was no formal party system until the 1890s, so both members from that era are marked as independents.

² There were no members from the electorate between 1920 and 1927, due to an ill-fated attempt to introduce proportional representation in the Assembly.

New South Wales general election, 2007: Albury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Greg Aplin	27,643	65.3	+19.2
	Labor	Chris Ryan	11,589	27.4	+13.9
	Greens	Chris Sobey	3,077	7.3	+4.4
Total formal votes			42,643	97.3
Informal votes			1,143	2.7
Turnout			43,452	90.4
2-Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Greg Aplin	28,311	69.0	-3.4
	Labor	Chris Ryan	12,731	31.0	+3.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	-3.4