Electoral district of Peats

Peats was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1973 to 2007. It was replaced by Gosford for the 2007 state election.^[1][2]

Members

Member		Party	Period
	Keith O'Connell[3]	Labor	1973–1984
	Paul Landa[4]	Labor	1984–1984
	Tony Doyle[5]	Labor	1985–1994
	Marie Andrews[6]	Labor	1995–2007

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Peats

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2003 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Peats.[edit]

2003 New South Wales state election: Peats ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Marie Andrews	18,180	43.9	−6.0
	Liberal	Debra Wales	11,620	28.1	−3.2
	Independent	Chris Holstein	7,582	18.3	+18.3
	Greens	Vicki Brooke	2,028	4.9	+2.0
	AAFI	John Goldsmith	643	1.6	+0.5
	Independent	Peter Moore	547	1.3	+1.3
	Save Our Suburbs	Mark Ellis	513	1.2	+1.2
	Democrats	Geoff Ward	306	0.7	−3.2
Total formal votes			41,419	97.8	+0.3
Informal votes			936	2.2	−0.3
Turnout			42,355	93.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Marie Andrews	21,181	59.7	−1.6
	Liberal	Debra Wales	14,289	40.3	+1.6
	Labor hold		Swing	−1.6