Berowra – Australia 2025

LIB 7.5%

Incumbent MP
Julian Leeser, since 2016.

• Geography
• Redistribution
• History
• Candidates
• Assessment
• 2022 results
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
Northern Sydney. Berowra covers the Hornsby Shire, northern parts of the Hills Shire and a small part of the City of Parramatta. Major suburbs include Berowra, Epping, Hornsby, Cherrybrook, Pennant Hills, and Dural. It also stretches as far north as Dangar Island and Wisemans Ferry.

Redistribution
Berowra took in the remainder of the Hornsby council area from Bradfield and also took in North Epping and parts of Epping from Bennelong. Berowra then lost West Pennant Hills to Mitchell and Murray Farm to Parramatta. These changes cut the Liberal margin from 9.8% to 7.5%.

History
Berowra was created at the 1969 election, and has always been safely retained by the Liberal Party.

The seat was first won in 1969 by Tom Hughes. Hughes had previously held the seat of Parkes since 1963, but its abolition in 1969 saw him move to Berowra. He was Attorney-General in John Gorton’s government, but was dropped from the cabinet when William McMahon became Prime Minister, and he retired at the 1972 election.

In 1972, the seat was won by Harry Edwards, a professor of economics at Macquarie University. Edwards held the seat for the next 21 years, retiring in 1993. He was replaced by Philip Ruddock, who had held other seats since 1973. Ruddock held the seat from 1993 until 2016, serving as a senior minister for the entirety of the Howard government. Ruddock has since gone on to be elected as Mayor of Hornsby.

Berowra was won in 2016 by Liberal candidate Julian Leeser. Leeser was re-elected in 2019 and 2022. Leeser joined the opposition frontbench after the 2022 election, but resigned in early 2023 to campaign for a “yes” vote at the 2023 Voice referendum.

Candidates

• Martin Cousins (Greens)
• Gerald Mattinson (One Nation)
• Benson Koschinski (Labor)
• Roger Woodward (Independent)
• Brendan Clarke (Fusion)
• Tina Brown (Independent)
• Stephen Bastian (Trumpet of Patriots)
• Julian Leeser (Liberal)

Assessment
Berowra is a reasonably safe Liberal seat.

2022 result

2022 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Polling places in Berowra have been split into three areas: east, south and west.

The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 50.2% in the east to 73.4% in the west.

The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 10.4% in the west to 19.0% in the east.

Election results in Berowra at the 2022 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal Party, Labor and the Greens.

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