David Raymond Mehan is an Australian politician who was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

as the member for The Entrance for the Labor Party at the

2015 New South Wales state election A general election for the 56th Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting. Members were also elected to 21 of th ...

. Mehan previously worked in the construction industry as an engineering geologist specialising in landslides and earthquakes. He also contested for the seat of

Dobell Dobell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include * Bertram Dobell (1842–1914), English bookseller, literary scholar, editor and author * Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869–1954), Canadian soldier *Clifford Dobell (1886–1949), British ...

in the 2004 federal election but lost to the sitting member at the time

Ken Ticehurst Kenneth (Ken) Vincent Ticehurst (born 22 January 1945) is a former Australian politician, and was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to 2007, representing the Division of Dobell in New South Wales for the Lib ...

. Mehan has previously contested for his current seat in the 2011 election. He was appointed as a parliamentary secretary in 2023.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehan, David Living people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales University of Newcastle (Australia) alumni University of Sydney alumni Australian Army officers 21st-century Australian politicians Year of birth missing (living people)