Electoral district of Tweed

Tweed is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Geoff Provest of The Nationals. It is located in the Tweed Valley and eastern Tweed Shire, including Tweed Heads, Kingscliff, Fingal Head, Chinderah, Cudgen, Bogangar, Pottsville and Burringbar.^[1]

Tweed New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1894–1904 1999–present
MP	Geoff Provest
Party	National Party
Namesake	Tweed River
Electors	57,646 (2023)
Area	511.33 km2 (197.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial and rural
Electorates around Tweed: Mudgeeraba (QLD) Currumbin (QLD) Pacific Ocean Lismore Tweed Pacific Ocean Lismore Ballina Pacific Ocean

History

Tweed was first created with the end of multi-member districts in 1894. In 1904, it was abolished with the reduction in the size of the Legislative Assembly, after Federation. The region was part of Richmond from 1904 to 1913, Byron from 1913 until 1988 when the district was renamed Murwillumbah. In 1999 the district was renamed Tweed.^[2]

Members for Tweed

First incarnation (1894—1904)
Member		Party	Term
	John Willard [3]	Labor	1894–1894
	Joseph Kelly [4]	Protectionist	1894–1898
	Richard Meagher [5]	Independent	1898–1904
Second incarnation (1999—present)
Member		Party	Term
	Neville Newell [6]	Labor	1999–2007
	Geoff Provest [7]	National	2007–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Tweed

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

2023 New South Wales state election: Tweed^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Geoff Provest	20,494	43.89	−3.66
	Labor	Craig Elliot	14,425	30.90	−0.07
	Greens	Ciara Denham	5,517	11.82	−2.03
	Legalise Cannabis	Marc Selan	2,534	5.43	+5.43
	Sustainable Australia	Ronald McDonald	2,298	4.92	+1.11
	Animal Justice	Susie Hearder	1,422	3.05	−0.79
Total formal votes			46,690	96.33	+0.32
Informal votes			1,777	3.67	−0.32
Turnout			48,467	84.08	−1.27
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Geoff Provest	22,075	53.58	−1.39
	Labor	Craig Elliot	19,125	46.42	+1.39
	National hold		Swing	−1.39