Elections > Federal Election 2007 > Seats

Robertson

GRANT, George - CDP
LE, Daniel - FFP
* LLOYD, Jim - LP
NEAL, Belinda - ALP     WINNER
RYAN, Helen - ON
TOMLIN, Nicholas - CEC
WROBLEWSKI, Mira - GRN

* incumbent

Current Results
Past Results

About Robertson

Robertson covers an area of 785 sq km including Gosford, Woy Woy and Terrigal on the New South Wales central coast. Increasingly it is a dormitory area for Sydney.

It has rural as well as service, light manufacturing and boat-building industries.

Seat Background

Robertson is named after Sir John Robertson, former Premier of New South Wales during the years of 1860-1861, 1868-1870, 1875-1877 and 1885-1886. It is currently held for the Liberal Party by Jim Lloyd who won it in 1996. For the 27 years before that it was a Labor seat, held by just two members - Frank Walker and Barry Cohen.

Demographics

Provincial.

Commentary and Analysis

Fairly safe Liberal.

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