Electoral district of Vaucluse

Vaucluse is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, located east of the Sydney central business district in the affluent Eastern Suburbs. It is named after the suburb of Vaucluse.

Vaucluse New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1927–present
MP	Kellie Sloane
Party	Liberal Party
Namesake	Vaucluse
Electors	59,352 (2023)
Area	24.62 km2 (9.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Electorates around Vaucluse: North Shore North Shore Manly Sydney Vaucluse Pacific Ocean Heffron Coogee Pacific Ocean

Vaucluse is one of two original (post-1927 redistribution) electorates to have never been held by the opposing Labor party and always by the Liberal Party or its predecessors, the other district being Hornsby. It has been represented in the past by former Leaders of the Opposition Murray Robson and Peter Debnam of the Liberal Party.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Vaucluse takes in the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi Beach, Darling Point, Double Bay, Dover Heights, North Bondi, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Woollahra and parts of Bondi, Centennial Park, Edgecliff and Rushcutters Bay.

Members for Vaucluse

Member		Party	Period
	William Foster	United Australia	1927–1936
	Murray Robson	Ind. United Australia	1936–1938
		United Australia	1938–1945
		Liberal	1945–1957
	Geoffrey Cox	Liberal	1957–1964
	Keith Doyle	Liberal	1965–1978
	Rosemary Foot	Liberal	1978–1986
	Ray Aston	Liberal	1986–1988
	Michael Yabsley	Liberal	1988–1994
	Peter Debnam	Liberal	1994–2011
	Gabrielle Upton	Liberal	2011–2023
	Kellie Sloane	Liberal	2023–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Vaucluse

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

2023 New South Wales state election: Vaucluse^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	24,184	50.1	−6.8
	Independent	Karen Freyer	8,236	17.1	+17.1
	Labor	Margaret Merten	7,336	15.2	+2.5
	Greens	Dominic Wy Kanak	5,632	11.7	−2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Stevens	1,166	2.4	+2.4
	Sustainable Australia	Kay Dunne	863	1.8	+0.4
	Animal Justice	Edward Cameron	846	1.8	+0.4
Total formal votes			48,263	97.9	−0.3
Informal votes			1,055	2.1	+0.3
Turnout			49,318	83.1	−0.7
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	26,574	65.6	−5.0
	Labor	Margaret Merten	13,960	34.4	+5.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Kellie Sloane	25,763	62.9	−6.5
	Independent	Karen Freyer	15,206	37.1	+37.1
	Liberal hold