Miranda is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Eleni Petinos of the Liberal Party.
Miranda is located in the north of Sutherland Shire on the south shore of Georges River.
Geography On its current boundaries, Miranda takes in the suburbs of Alfords Point, Bonnet Bay, Como, Gymea, Illawong, Jannali, Kangaroo Point, Kareela, Kirrawee, Miranda, Oyster Bay, Sylvania, Sylvania Waters, Taren Point and parts of Caringbah and Sutherland.
History
Created in 1971, Miranda had traditionally been a electorate, being won by only at landslide elections, two under Neville Wran in 1978 and 1981, and again under Bob Carr in 1999 and 2003. According to ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in 2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor. On a margin of 0.8 percent it was the Labor government's most marginal seat. In 2011 the Liberals won government in a landslide, and the seat of Miranda on a very safe 21.0 percent margin, with 39 seats held by the Coalition on smaller margins.
The seat was made vacant following the resignation of Liberal MP Graham Annesley. The 2013 Miranda by-election was conducted on 19 October, Labor's Barry Collier won the seat with a two-party swing of 26 percent in the largest by-election swing in the state's history.Labor's Barry Collier returns to NSW Parliament after record swing against O'Farrell Government in Miranda by-election: Antony Green ABC News 19 October 2013 He did not stand for re-election at the 2015 NSW State election and the seat was subsequently won by the Liberal Party's Eleni Petinos.Collier exits again - Miranda MP calls it quits 'for wife and family' St George Leader 16 October 2014
Members for Miranda MemberPartyTerm Tim Walker 1971–1978 Bill Robb 1978–1984 Ron Phillips 1984–1999 Barry Collier 1999–2011 Graham Annesley 2011–2013 Barry Collier 2013–2015 Eleni Petinos 2015–present
Election results
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