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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Berowra, New South Wales
Named for: Sydney suburb of Berowra, located on Berowra Water (Indigenous name meaning "place of many shells")
Northern Sydney: Epping, Galston, Hornsby, Normanhurst, Pennant Hills
Enrolment at 2019 election: 106,331
Enrolment at 2022 election: 106,174 (-00.1)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 51.7
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 54.6
2023 Voice referendum: No 53.3
2007 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.9%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 16.2%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 19.1%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 16.5%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 15.6%
2022 Liberal majority over Labor: 9.8%
2025 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 7.5%
Status: Marginal Liberal
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Julian Leeser
Liberal Party |
Division of Berowra
Berowra was created in 1969, in the fast-growing outer north-western suburbs of Sydney, and its boundaries have not
changed much since, although it has gradually expanded out to the north-west. It is one of the wealthiest seats in
Australia, with one of the highest levels of people in professional and managerial occupations, and also a high level
of traditional families with children. It has the fourth-highest proportion of families with dependent children of
any electorate. These factors make Berowra a safe Liberal seat, and indeed Labor has never come close to winning it.
The seat has gained some territory at its southern end through the 2024 redistribution, but this has only slightly reduced the
Liberal majority.
Previous members for Berowra have been
Tom Hughes, Attorney-General
in the Gorton government, and
Dr Harry Edwards, who had several stints on the opposition front bench but never achieved office. He retired in 1993 and was succeeded by Phillip Ruddock.
Phillip Ruddock, Liberal MP for Parramatta from 1973 to 1977, for Dundas from 1977 to 1993 and for Berowra from 1993,
was a solicitor when he won the Parramatta by-election in 1973, aged 30. He sat out the Fraser Government, but was on
the opposition front bench from 1983. In the Howard Government he was first Immigration Minister and then Attorney-General.
In the Abbott Government he was Chief Government Whip until 2015. When he retired in 2016 he had been an MP for 43 years,
second only to
Billy Hughes as the longest-serving MP.
Julian Leeser, MP for Berowra since 2016, is a former staffer to both Ruddock and Abbott. Despite being of German-Jewish
descent, he was appointed Director of Government Policy and Strategy at the Australian Catholic University. Earlier he was
Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre, a Liberal Party think-tank, and a member of Woollahra Municipal
Council - a perfect pedigree for an ambitious Liberal in a safe seat.
After the 2022 election Leeser was appointed Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, but in April 2023 he
resigned from the Opposition front-bench as a result of his support for the Voice to Parliament referendum. He is now on the back bench. If the
Coalition loses in 2025, he would be well-placed to be the "moderate" candidate for the Liberal leadership.
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