Electoral district of Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Trish Doyle of the Labor Party.

Blue Mountains New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Created	1968
MP	Trish Doyle
Party	Labor
Namesake	Blue Mountains
Electors	59,088 (2023)
Area	1,422.63 km^2 (549.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial
Electorates around Blue Mountains: Bathurst Bathurst Hawkesbury Bathurst Blue Mountains Penrith Bathurst Wollondilly Badgerys Creek

History

The Electoral district of the Blue Mountains was created in 1966 as a renaming of the Electoral district of Hartley (New South Wales).

The 2004 redistribution of electoral districts estimated that the electoral district would have 45,289 electors on 29 April 2007. Since the 2023 election, it has encompassed all of the City of Blue Mountains.

Members for Blue Mountains

Member		Party	Period
	Harold Coates	Independent	1968–1976
	Mick Clough	Labor	1976–1981
	Bob Debus	Labor	1981–1988
	Barry Morris	Liberal	1988–1994
		Independent	1994–1995
	Bob Debus	Labor	1995–2007
	Phil Koperberg	Labor	2007–2011
	Roza Sage	Liberal	2011–2015
	Trish Doyle	Labor	2015–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2023 New South Wales Legislative Assembly election § Blue Mountains.edit

2023 New South Wales state election: Blue Mountains

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Trish Doyle	28,613	53.9	+8.2
	Liberal	Sophie-Anne Bruce	12,640	23.8	−5.7
	Greens	Jenna Condie	6,669	12.6	+0.5
	Animal Justice	Greg Keightley	2,285	4.3	+0.4
	Informed Medical Options	Michelle Palmer	1,901	3.6	+3.6
	Sustainable Australia	Richard Marschall	948	1.8	−1.1
Total formal votes			53,056	97.9	+0.3
Informal votes			1,143	2.1	−0.3
Turnout			54,199	91.7	−1.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Trish Doyle	35,536	71.9	+8.3
	Liberal	Sophie-Anne Bruce	13,893	28.1	−8.3
	Labor hold		Swing	+8.3

See also

• List of Blue Mountains articles