I have now finished maps for 88 of 93 seats in the NSW Legislative Assembly and plan to finish the remainder in the next few days. Throughout December and January you should see profiles of each seat go up on the site, but I don’t plan to put any more posts on the front page until after the Christmas/New Year break.
As a final point of interest, just yesterday I produced a map of the seat of Goulburn in southeastern NSW. The seat was created in the 2007 redistribution, and covers most of Goulburn Mulwaree and Wingecarribee councils. Wingecarribee covers the Southern Highlands, including Bowral, Mittagong and Moss Vale.
In 2007 the seat was contested by the Liberal Party’s Pru Goward and independent Mayor of Goulburn Mulwaree, Paul Stephenson. Goward held on in 2007 with 51.3% of the two-party preferred vote.
The interesting thing about the map is how the vote varies wildly between Goulburn and the Southern Highlands. Goward polled just under 60% in the Southern Highlands part of the seat, while Stephenson polled over 62% in Goulburn itself and almost 60% in the remaining booths in the western parts of the seat. As the Southern Highlands made up a majority of the seat’s population, Goward came out on top.
Goulburn is one of a number of seats where the Coalition won a seat with an independent as their main rival, including Barwon, Manly, Pittwater, Hawkesbury, Orange and Willoughby.
