ALP 13.0%
Incumbent MP
David Harris, since 2015.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2019 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Central Coast. The seat of Wyong covers northern parts of the Central Coast council area, including Wyong itself, Toukley, Gorokan and Chittaway Bay.
Redistribution
Wyong contracted on its sparsely-populated western edge, with Gosford taking that territory, and also lost Berkeley Vale to The Entrance. This change increased the Labor margin from 12.4% to 13.0%.
History
The electoral district of Wyong was first created for the 1962 election. It was abolished in 1973 and was restored in 1988. The seat was always held by Labor prior to the 2011 election.
Wyong was first won in 1962 by Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Ray Maher. He had previously served as Member for North Sydney since 1953, but moved to Wyong upon North Sydney’s abolition. Maher resigned as Speaker in early 1965 after being accused of sexual harassment, and he retired from Parliament at the 1965 election.
Maher was succeeded in 1965 by the ALP’s Harry Jensen. Jensen had served as Lord Mayor of Sydney since 1957, and had before that served as Mayor of Randwick.
In 1973, Wyong was abolished, and Jensen moved to the seat of Munmorah. He served as a minister in the newly-elected Labor state government from 1976 until he retired in 1981, when Munmorah itself was abolished.
Munmorah was replaced in 1981 by the seat of Tuggerah, which was won by the ALP’s Harry Moore.
In 1988, Tuggerah was broken up into Wyong and The Entrance, and Moore was elected as Member for Wyong.
Moore retired in 1991, and was succeeded by Paul Crittenden, and Crittenden held Wyong until his retirement in 2007.
Wyong was won in 2007 by the ALP’s candidate, former school principal David Harris. He held the seat for one term, and in 2011 lost to Liberal candidate Darren Webber.
Darren Webber resigned from the Liberal Party in 2014 after he faced investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Webber did not run in 2015, and Labor candidate David Harris was elected. Harris was re-elected in 2019.
Assessment
Wyong is a reasonably safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| David Harris | Labor | 25,077 | 52.1 | +1.0 | 52.7 |
| Ying Shu Li-Cantwell | Liberal | 15,338 | 31.9 | -4.9 | 31.4 |
| Sue Wynn | Greens | 4,553 | 9.5 | +2.8 | 9.3 |
| Martin Stevenson | Conservatives | 3,153 | 6.6 | +6.6 | 6.6 |
| Informal | 2,655 | 5.2 |
2019 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| David Harris | Labor | 27,296 | 62.4 | +3.7 | 63.0 |
| Ying Shu Li-Cantwell | Liberal | 16,415 | 37.6 | -3.7 | 37.0 |
Booths in Wyong have been split into four parts: east, central, south and west. The ‘west’ area covers rural areas on the fringe of Wyong, and has a much smaller population than the other three areas, which are mostly urban.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all four areas, ranging from 57.3% in the west to 66.9% in the east.
The Greens polled just over 8% in the centre and west and 10-11% in the east and south.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Central | 8.3 | 63.4 | 10,540 | 23.0 |
| East | 10.7 | 66.9 | 10,092 | 22.0 |
| South | 10.2 | 62.1 | 5,959 | 13.0 |
| West | 8.4 | 57.3 | 1,949 | 4.2 |
| Pre-poll | 6.1 | 60.4 | 10,546 | 23.0 |
| Other votes | 13.1 | 63.5 | 6,805 | 14.8 |
Election results in Wyong at the 2019 NSW state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.
Liberal candidate disendorsed.
Not that Harris was in trouble in this seat.
Wonder what the record is for disendorsed candidates prior to an election
@Strathman not particuarly well. remember Labors candidate for Melbourne who was disendorsed a few years back and they ended up losing a bit of the vote though it will still say Liberal on the Ballot. ONP wil probly fill the gap here now
Sorry I meant what is the number of most disendorsed candidates prior to a general election, especially after ballots have been finalised
Strathman scoop, I think the 2019 federal election has the greatest number of disendorsed candidates. In addition to Luke Creasey (Melbourne), there were 3 or 4 other Liberal candidates disendorsed after nominations closed.