Electoral district of Summer Hill

Summer Hill is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales. It is represented by Jo Haylen of the Labor Party.

Summer Hill New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Created	2015
MP	Jo Haylen
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Summer Hill
Electors	58949[1] (2025)
Area	16.4 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Electorates around Summer Hill: Drummoyne Drummoyne Balmain Strathfield Summer Hill Newtown Canterbury Rockdale Heffron

History

Summer Hill is one of two new electorates (the other being Newtown) created in place of the abolished Marrickville for the 2015 state election. It takes its territory from areas previously belonging to the districts of Balmain, Canterbury, Marrickville and Strathfield.^[2]

Geography

Summer Hill is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner west centred on the suburb of Summer Hill from which it takes its name. On its current boundaries, it also includes the suburbs of Ashbury, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Haberfield, Lewisham and Marrickville.^[3]

Members for Summer Hill

Member		Party	Term
	Jo Haylen [4]	Labor	2015–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Summer Hill

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Summer Hill.[edit]

2023 New South Wales state election: Summer Hill^[5][6][7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jo Haylen	25,922	52.1	+5.7
	Greens	Izabella Antoniou	12,596	25.3	+4.9
	Liberal	Bowen Cheng	8,340	16.8	−7.2
	Animal Justice	Sandra Haddad	1,567	3.1	+0.8
	Sustainable Australia	Michael Swan	1,333	2.7	+1.3
Total formal votes			49,758	97.5	+0.5
Informal votes			1,277	2.5	−0.5
Turnout			51,035	88.5	+0.7
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Jo Haylen	37,057	79.8	+8.2
	Liberal	Bowen Cheng	9,373	20.2	−8.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Jo Haylen	28,598	66.3	−0.2
	Greens	Izabella Antoniou	14,536	33.7	+0.2
	Labor hold		Swing	−0.2