Electoral district of Baulkham Hills

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Location within Sydney

Baulkham Hills is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a 37.97km² electorate in Sydney's north-west, taking in the suburbs of Bella Vista, Baulkham Hills, Carlingford and North Rocks. There were 43,965 electors enrolled within the district as of the 1999 state election.

The Baulkham Hills electorate was first created in 1991, replacing the short-lived electorate of Carlingford (1988-1991). As with its predecessor, it covers a series of wealthy and largely conservative suburbs, and as such, Wayne Merton, the former Liberal member for Carlingford, had little difficulty winning the seat in 1991. Merton has shown little sign of being challenged ever since, having been comfortably returned at three elections, even amidst his party's landslide defeat at the 2003 election.

[edit] Members for Baulkham Hills

Member		Party affiliation	Period
	Wayne Merton	Liberal	1991—present

[edit] Election results

New South Wales general election, 2007: Baulkham Hills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Merton	23,153	51.5	+5.9
	Labor	Tony Hay	13,940	31.0	-5.3
	Greens	Mark Rodowicz	3,359	7.5	+0.7
	Christian Democrats	Godwin Goh	2,173	4.8	+0.4
	Unity	Yan Li	1,241	2.8	+2.8
	Australians Against Further Immigration	Gregory Piol	1,046	2.3	+2.3
Total formal votes			46,069	97.3
Informal votes			1,147	2.7
Turnout			47,216
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Wayne Merton	24,717	60.3	+6.3
	Labor	Tony Hay	16,282	39.7	-6.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+6.3