| Vaucluse New South Wales—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
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| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1927–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Kellie Sloane | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Vaucluse | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 56,448 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 24.62 km2 (9.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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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 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.
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.
| Member | Party | Period | |
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| 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 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| 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 | |||||
