2024 Pittwater state by-election

A by-election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Pittwater was held on 19 October 2024, following the resignation of Liberal MP Rory Amon.^[1]

2024 Pittwater state by-election

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Electoral district of Pittwater in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Registered	57,196
Turnout	85.15% ( 5.01 pp)
First party Second party   IND Candidate Jacqui Scruby Georgia Ryburn Party Independent Liberal Popular vote 25,705 19,852 Percentage 54.17% 41.84% Swing 18.31 2.87 TCP 55.94% 44.06% TCP swing 6.60 6.60
MP before election Rory Amon Liberal Elected MP Jacqui Scruby Independent

Amon resigned from parliament on 30 August 2024 after he was charged with child sex offences.^[2] Several hours prior to resigning from parliament, Amon also resigned as a member of the Liberal Party.^[3]

Independent Jacqui Scruby was elected.

Key dates

• Issue of writ – 27 September 2024
• Close of roll – 27 September 2024
• Close of nominations – 3 October 2024
• Declaration of nominations – 4 October 2024
• Commencement of early voting – 12 October 2024
• Applications for postal voting close – 14 October 2024
• Polling day – 19 October 2024
• Last day for return of the writ – 8 November 2024^[1]

Previous results

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

2023 New South Wales state election: Pittwater^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rory Amon	22,137	44.71	−12.64
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	17,754	35.86	+35.86
	Labor	Jeffrey Quinn	5,039	10.18	−2.38
	Greens	Hilary Green	3,386	6.84	−8.47
	Sustainable Australia	Craig Law	1,195	2.41	−1.32
Total formal votes			49,511	97.75	+0.42
Informal votes			1,139	2.25	−0.42
Turnout			50,650	90.16	+0.27
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Rory Amon	26,796	63.25	−9.11
	Labor	Jeffrey Quinn	15,567	36.75	+9.11
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Rory Amon	23,365	50.66	−20.18
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	22,759	49.34	+49.34
	Liberal hold

Candidates

Party		Candidate	Background
	Libertarian	Doug Rennie[7]
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	Sustainability consultant and former environmental lawyer, former adviser for federal independent MPs Sophie Scamps and Zali Steggall.[7][8]
	Liberal	Georgia Ryburn	Former deputy mayor of Northern Beaches Council until 2024 and a senior manager at a professional services firm.[7]

Liberal pre-selection

On 11 September 2024 Manly ward councillor Georgia Ryburn defeated fellow councillors Michael Gencher from Pittwater ward and Bianca Crvelin from Narrabeen ward along with lawyer Claire Longley to win Liberal Party preselection.^[9] Ryburn previously served as the deputy mayor of Northern Beaches Council, but was unable to contest the local government elections on 14 September after the Liberal Party missed the candidate nomination deadline.^[10]

Labor absence

The governing Labor Party did not contest the by-election with Premier Chris Minns stating "a swing against us would be a massive distraction".^[11]

Results

2024 Pittwater state by-election^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	25,705	54.17	+18.31
	Liberal	Georgia Ryburn	19,852	41.84	−2.87
	Libertarian	Doug Rennie	1,893	3.99	+3.99
Total formal votes			47,450	97.43	−0.32
Informal votes			1,250	2.57	+0.32
Turnout			48,700	85.15	−5.01
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Jacqui Scruby	26,050	55.94	+6.60
	Liberal	Georgia Ryburn	20,519	44.06	−6.60
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing	−6.60

See also

• Electoral results for the district of Pittwater
• 2024 Hornsby state by-election (same day election)
• 2024 Epping state by-election (same day election)