The Hills was an
electoral district of the
Legislative Assembly in the
Australian state of
New South Wales
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from 1962 to 2007. It was a 51.08 km
2 urban electorate in
Sydney's north-west, taking in the suburbs of
Carlingford,
Castle Hill,
Cherrybrook,
Glenhaven,
Kellyville,
Pennant Hills
Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region, or Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsb ...
and
West Pennant Hills. There were 44,961 electors enrolled in the district at the
1999 state election.
The Hills electorate was first contested in 1962. It was created from the northern part of
Blacktown
Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located west of the Sydney central business district. It is one of the most multicultural places within Great ...
, a southern part of
Hornsby and the northern part of
Eastwood Eastwood may refer to:
Places
;in Australia
*Eastwood, New South Wales
**Eastwood railway station
**Electoral district of Eastwood
*Eastwood, South Australia
;in Canada
* Eastwood, Ontario
*Eastwood, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighborhood
;in the Ph ...
, in the
Liberals' traditional heartland of northern Sydney, and as such was a comfortably safe Liberal seat, tending to have long-serving members throughout its history, only having seen four members in more than forty years.
Max Ruddock
Maxwell Stanley Ruddock (2 January 191431 May 1976) was a New South Wales politician, Assistant Treasurer and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. Representing the Liberal Party he was a member of the New S ...
held the seat from 1962 until his death in 1976, and was replaced by local mayor
Fred Caterson, who won more than 70% of the vote in the subsequent by-election. Caterson suffered a large swing in the "
Wranslide" of
1978, but even then managed to win an outright majority on the first count. It was one of only two times that the Liberals were seriously threatened in this seat. In 1962, Ruddock was nearly defeated by an independent Liberal when the seat was first contested.
The seat reverted to form, and Caterson held it comfortably until 1990, when he retired and was replaced by used car dealer
Tony Packard. In contrast to his predecessors, Packard only lasted three years, and resigned amidst scandal in 1993.
Although there was some speculation that the Liberal Party would lose the ensuing 1993 by-election, Liberal candidate
Michael Richardson won easily and was handily returned in the next three elections.
The district was abolished from the
2007 state election as a result of the 2004 electoral redistribution. Richardson followed most of the electorate to the new electorate of
Castle Hill, with the remaining territory being split between
Hawkesbury Hawkesbury or Hawksbury may refer to:
People
*Baron Hawkesbury, or Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1727-1808), English statesman
Places
;Geography
*Hawkesbury Island, an island in British Columbia, Canada
* Hawkesbury Island, Queensland ...
,
Hornsby and
Epping Epping may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Epping railway station, Sydney
* Electoral district of Epping, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
* Epping Forest, Kearns, a he ...
.
Members
Election results
References
External links
District profile from the State Electoral Office
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Former electoral districts of New South Wales
1962 establishments in Australia
Constituencies established in 1962
2007 disestablishments in Australia
Constituencies disestablished in 2007