ALP 12.4%
Incumbent MP
Ed Husic, since 2010.
Geography
Western Sydney. Chifley covers western parts of the City of Blacktown. Chifley covers parts of the suburb of Blacktown and the neighbouring suburbs of Doonside, Mount Druitt, Rooty Hill, Marayong, Quakers Hill and a number of other suburbs in the northwestern parts of Blacktown council area.
Chifley was created for the 1969 election, and has always been a safe seat for the ALP. The seat was first won in 1969 by the ALP’s John Armitage, who had previously held the neighbouring seat of Mitchell for one term from 1961 to 1963.
Armitage held the seat until his retirement at the 1983 election, when he was succeeded by Russell Gorman. Gorman transferred to the new seat of Greenway at the 1984 election, and Chifley was won by Deputy Mayor of Blacktown Roger Price. Gorman held Greenway until his retirement in 1996, while Price has been re-elected in Chifley at every election from 1984 until 2007, and retired in 2010.
Ed Husic was elected in Chifley in 2010. Husic had previously ran for Greenway unsuccessfully in 2004. Husic has been re-elected three times.
- Amit Batish (One Nation)
- Zvetanka Raskov (United Australia)
- Ammar Khan (Independent)
- Ben Roughley (Liberal Democrats)
- Sujan Selventhiran (Greens)
- Jugandeep Singh (Liberal)
- Ed Husic (Labor)
Assessment
Chifley is a safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Ed Husic | Labor | 49,418 | 54.3 | -6.8 |
| Livingston Chettipally | Liberal | 25,411 | 27.9 | +5.3 |
| Josh Green | Christian Democratic Party | 5,859 | 6.4 | -2.7 |
| Brent Robertson | Greens | 4,604 | 5.1 | +0.5 |
| Joseph O’Connor | United Australia Party | 4,133 | 4.5 | +4.5 |
| Ammar Khan | Independent | 1,581 | 1.7 | -0.8 |
| Informal | 9,728 | 9.7 | +1.3 |
2019 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Ed Husic | Labor | 56,761 | 62.4 | -6.8 |
| Livingston Chettipally | Liberal | 34,245 | 37.6 | +6.8 |
Booths have been divided into three areas. Polling places have been split between those near Mount Druitt (south-west), near Blacktown (east), and those in the north-western part of the seat.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 61% in the east to 67.9% in the south-west.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-West | 64.1 | 26,020 | 25.6 |
| East | 61.0 | 18,380 | 18.1 |
| South-West | 67.9 | 10,293 | 10.1 |
| Pre-poll | 61.8 | 26,763 | 26.4 |
| Other votes | 55.8 | 9,550 | 9.4 |
Election results in Oxley at the 2019 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal Party.
Chifley is a safe Labor seat. So what’s with the Liberals winning Marsden Park? Is this another example of an ethnic community that hasn’t turned away from the Liberals? According to the 2021 census, the most common ancestry in Marsden Park is Indian and while most residents were born in Australia, over 75% of people have parents who were both born overseas.
Marsden Park is within the federal Labor seat of Chifley and the state Labor seats of Londonderry and Riverstone. At the 2022 federal election, the Liberals won Marsden Park (the booth was at Marsden Park Public School) with 52.49% of the TPP vote, making Marsden Park the only booth in Chifley that was not won by Labor. However, at the 2023 state election, the Liberals won only 38.18% of the TPP at Marsden Park Public School in Riverstone, while in Londonderry the Liberals won 36.02% at Marsden Park Public School and just 29.21% at Marsden Park Neighbourhood Centre.
Between Richmond Road and the Richmond Line is still quite semi-rural whereas either side has greenfield housing estates and therefore, lots of young families and mortgaged homes.
Suburbs like Angus, parts of Riverstone and parts of Marsden Park have older residents and mainly own their homes outright and is more likely to be Australian-born. In their cases, Marsden Park Public School is probably their nearest polling booth. Demographically, the northern parts of Chifley favour the Liberals, but only slightly.
The Marsden Park booths in nsw2023 swung a crazy amount to Labor: 40%, 45%, 30.3%, 16.2%. A crazy swing. And basically everywhere around it swung ~15% to Labor. Who knows if we might end up seeing this area swing further to Labor in 2025.