Miranda – NSW 2027

LIB 2.3%

Incumbent MP
Eleni Petinos, since 2015.

• Geography
• History
• Candidate summary
• Assessment
• 2023 results
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
Southern Sydney. Miranda covers suburbs in Sutherland Shire, including Bangor, Como, Gymea, Kirrawee, Illawong, Miranda, Sylvania, Sylvania Waters, Taren Point and parts of Menai, Kirrawee and Alfords Point.

History
Miranda was first created for the 1971 election. It has been a key marginal seat, and has been won by the party that won government at all but three elections.

The seat was first won in 1971 by the Liberal Party’s Tim Walker. Walker was a former newsagent who had won the seat of Sutherland in 1968. Sutherland was abolished in 1968 and Walker moved to the new seat of Miranda.

Walker was defeated in 1978 by the ALP’s Bill Robb. The 1978 election was a landslide for Labor Premier Neville Wran, who had won power narrowly in 1976. Robb was re-elected in 1981, but in 1984 was defeated by the Liberal Party’s Ron Phillips.

The Liberal Party regained power in 1988, and Phillips served as a minister in the Liberal government from 1991 to 1995. He served as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party after the party lost power in 1995 until he lost his seat in 1999.

The ALP’s Barry Collier defeated Phillips in 1999, and he won re-election in 2003 and 2007.

Collier retired at the 2011 election, and Miranda was won by Liberal candidate Graham Annesley with a 22% swing.

Annesley was appointed as Minister for Sport and Recreation in 2011. Annesley resigned from the ministry and Parliament in 2013 to take on the role of CEO of the Gold Coast Titans, a team in the NRL.

At the ensuing by-election, the seat was won by former MP Barry Collier, who returned to contest the seat. The 2011 swing was entirely reversed, with Labor gaining a 26% swing.

Collier retired again in 2015, and Liberal candidate Eleni Petinos was elected. Petinos was re-elected in 2019 and 2023.

Candidates
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Assessment
This section will be filled in closer to the election.

2023 result

2023 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Booths in Miranda have been split into three parts: central, east and west.

The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in two out of three areas, with 52.1% in the west and 56.5% in the east. Labor polled 55.3% in the centre.

Election results in Miranda at the 2023 NSW state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal Party and Labor.

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