Antony "Tony" Pasin (born 1 October 1977) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the

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for the

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seat of Barker since the 2013 election.

Early life

Pasin was born in

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. His parents were both born in Italy – his mother in

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, Benevento, and his father in Fontanelle, Veneto. Pasin has degrees in Law and Economics from Flinders University, and previously served on the Mount Gambier City Council from 2003 to 2010.

Parliament

In 2012, Pasin defeated incumbent Patrick Secker, 164 votes to 78 votes, for

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preselection in Barker, long the safest Liberal seat in South Australia. He breezed to victory at the 2013 election.

2016 election

A ReachTEL seat-level opinion poll in the safe Liberal seat of Barker of 869 voters conducted by robocall on 20 June during the 2016 election campaign surprisingly found

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candidate James Stacey leading Pasin 52–48 on the two-candidate vote. Seat-level opinion polls in the other two rural Liberal South Australian seats of

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and

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revealed Nick Xenophon Team also leading in both. On election night, Stacey slashed Pasin's margin in Barker from a comfortably safe 16.5 points to just 4.7 points. This was the closest that the Coalition has come to losing Barker since

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, though Barker remains a comfortably safe Liberal seat in a

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matchup with Labor. Pasin is a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party.

References

External links

Parliament of Australia biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasin, Tony 1977 births Living people Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Barker Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives People from Mount Gambier, South Australia 21st-century Australian politicians People of Venetian descent Australian people of Italian descent