Banks – Australia 2025

LIB 2.6%

Incumbent MP
David Coleman, since 2013.

Geography
Southern Sydney. Banks covers large parts of the St George area and neighbouring suburbs. It includes a majority of the Georges River council area and south-western parts of the Canterbury-Bankstown council area. Key suburbs include East Hills, Panania, Padstow, Picnic Point, Revesby, Mortdale, Peakhurst, Penshurst, Blakehurst, Carss Park, Kyle Bay and Oatley.

Redistribution
Banks expanded north, taking in Milperra from Blaxland and parts of Punchbowl and Roselands from Watson. Banks also took in Blakehurst, Carss Park and Kyle Bay from Cook and lost Allawah and Carlton to Barton. These changes cut the Liberal margin from 3.2% to 2.6%.

History
Banks was created for the 1949 election, and was held by Labor continuously until 2013.

The seat was first won in 1949 by Labor candidate Dominic Costa. Costa held the seat for twenty years, always as a member of the opposition, retiring in 1969.

Vince Martin was elected in 1969, and held the seat until he was defeated for preselection in 1980 by John Mountford. Mountford held the seat until his retirement in 1990.

In 1990, Banks was won by Labor candidate Daryl Melham. Melham held the seat for over two decades, serving in the Opposition shadow ministry from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2004. Successive swings against the ALP wore his margin down to 1.06% in 2004, although a favourable redistribution before the 2007 election, combined with a swing of almost 8%, made the seat much safer.

Daryl Melham narrowly held on in 2010 despite a 9% swing, and in 2013 he lost to Liberal candidate David Coleman with a further 3.3% swing. Coleman has been re-elected three times.

Candidates

Assessment
Banks is a marginal seat, but has trended towards the Liberal Party over the last two decades. The seat was Labor-held throughout the entire Howard government, and generally voted to the left of New South Wales until 2013. At the 2019 and 2022, the Liberal two-party-preferred vote was substantially higher in Banks than across the state. A strong Labor result could see this seat flipping, but otherwise it will likely stay with the Liberals.

2022 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
David Coleman Liberal 41,622 45.2 -5.7 44.6
Zhi Soon Labor 32,459 35.3 -1.1 35.8
Natalie Hanna Greens 8,063 8.8 +2.9 8.6
Marika Momircevski United Australia 5,048 5.5 +3.3 5.6
Malcolm Heffernan One Nation 2,628 2.9 +2.9 3.3
Elouise Ivy Cocker Liberal Democrats 1,264 1.4 +1.4 1.2
Steve Khouw Independent 961 1.0 +1.0 0.9
Informal 6,550 6.6 -0.6

2022 two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
David Coleman Liberal 48,969 53.2 -3.1 52.6
Zhi Soon Labor 43,076 46.8 +3.1 47.4

Booth breakdown

Polling places in Banks have been divided into three parts: central, east and west. The west covers the former Bankstown council area, while the other two cover the Georges River council area and the small part of the former Canterbury council area.

The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 50.6% in the centre to 55.4% in the east.

Voter group GRN prim LIB 2PP Total votes % of votes
Central 8.6 50.6 20,491 20.7
West 8.2 54.7 19,588 19.8
East 9.4 55.4 15,942 16.1
Pre-poll 7.7 51.6 27,171 27.4
Other votes 9.9 51.7 15,898 16.0

Election results in Banks at the 2022 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal Party, Labor and the Greens.

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52 COMMENTS

  1. Libs will gain the seats I stated in WA. And in Nat and in tas. The libs will never gain a seat in act unless under extreme circumstances. QLD is a bit hard to read. But atm status quo. And as both Sturt and booth y could flip. There gains are gonna mainly come in vic and nsw anyway.

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