Seat profile: Strathfield
Labor is predicted to keep Strathfield tonight but only by a small margin, which the party will be disappointed by.
The by-election of the swing seat in Sydney's inner west was triggered by the resignation of former Labor Leader Jodi McKay last year.
The Liberal party last won the seat in 2011, and Labor has held onto it by a small margin ever since, winning by just 5 per cent of the vote at the 2019 election.
Labor has selected Jason Yat-sen Li – a former United Nations Lawyer and current Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sydney who previously ran for the independent Asian-Australian political party ‘Unity’.
The Liberals have put forward Bridget Sakr – a finance worker and business owner whose daughter and three cousins were killed by a drunk driver in Oatlands in 2020.
With 56.3 per cent of its population born overseas, Strathfield is one of NSW’s most ethnically diverse electorates, and candidates have often struggled to reach non-English speaking voters.
While Labor has campaigned heavily in the area, the party looks set to lose some of its votes to independent candidate Elizabeth Farrelly.
Ms Farrelly is an author, architecture critic, essayist, columnist and public speaker. She resigned from her position as a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald in 2021 to join Labor but never ran for the party.
Along with the main candidates, Courtney Buckley is running for The Greens, Ellie Robertson is running for the Sustainable Australia Party, and Rohan Laxmanalal is running for the Animal Justice Party.
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2022-02-12 11:53:40Z
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