Electoral district of Ryde

Ryde is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Ryde New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State	New South Wales
Dates current	1894–1904 1913–1968 1981–1991 1999–present
MP	Jordan Lane
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Ryde
Electors	54,881 (2019)
Area	28.23 km2 (10.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Electorates around Ryde: Epping Wahroonga Wahroonga Parramatta Ryde Lane Cove Parramatta Drummoyne Lane Cove

It is currently represented by Jordan Lane of the Liberal Party.

History

Ryde was created originally in 1894 with the abolition of multi-member districts, from part of Central Cumberland and named after and including Ryde. It was abolished in 1904 with the downsizing of the Legislative Assembly after Federation, but recreated in 1913. In 1920, the electoral districts of Ryde, Burwood, Drummoyne, Gordon and Willoughby were combined to create a new incarnation of Ryde, which elected five members by proportional representation. This was replaced by single member electorates, including Ryde, Burwood, Drummoyne, Eastwood, Gordon and Willoughby for the 1927 election. Ryde was abolished in 1968, being partly replaced by Yaralla and Fuller. In 1981 Ryde was recreated from the part of the abolished district of Yaralla north of the Parramatta River and part of the abolished district of Fuller. In 1991, Ryde was abolished again, but in 1999, Gladesville and Eastwood were abolished and largely replaced by a fourth incarnation of Ryde and Epping.

In its previous incarnations, Ryde was a marginal seat that frequently traded hands between Labor and the conservative parties. In its current incarnation, Ryde was originally a safe Labor seat before a massive swing to the Liberals at a 2008 by-election made it a safe Liberal seat. Dominello currently holds it with a majority of 11.5 percent. On 17 August 2022, Dominello announced his plan to retire at the upcoming state election. At the election in March, the Liberal candidate, Jordan Lane, won by a two-party preferred margin of 50 votes. The result was so close, a recount was held on 15 April which increased Lane's margin to 54 votes.

Geography

On its current boundaries, Ryde includes the suburbs and localities of Denistone, Denistone East, Denistone West, Macquarie Park, Marsfield, Meadowbank, Melrose Park, Ryde, North Ryde, West Ryde; and parts of Eastwood and Epping.

Members for Ryde

1894–1904, 1 member
Member		Party	Term
	Frank Farnell	Free Trade	1894–1898
	Edward Terry	Ind. Protectionist	1898–1901
	Frank Farnell	Independent Liberal	1901–1903
	Edward Terry	Independent Liberal	1904–1904
1913–1920, 1 member
Member		Party	Term
	William Thompson	Liberal Reform	1913–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1920
1920–1927, 5 members
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Edward Loxton	Ind. Nationalist	1920–1922		David Anderson	Nationalist	1920–1927		Thomas Bavin	Progressive	1920–1922		Sir Thomas Henley	Nationalist	1920–1927		Robert Greig	Labor	1920–1927
		Nationalist	1922–1925							Nationalist	1922–1927
	Edward Sanders	Nationalist	1925–1927
1927–1968, 1 member
Member		Party	Term
	Henry McDicken	Labor	1927–1930
	Evan Davies	Labor	1930–1932
	Eric Spooner	United Australia	1932–1940
	Arthur Williams	Labor	1940–1941
	James Shand	Ind. United Australia	1941–1944
	Eric Hearnshaw	Liberal	1945–1950
	Ken Anderson	Liberal	1950–1953
	Frank Downing	Labor	1953–1968
1981–1991, 1 member
Member		Party	Term
	Garry McIlwaine	Labor	1981–1988
	Michael Photios	Liberal	1988–1991
1999–present, 1 member
Member		Party	Term
	John Watkins	Labor	1999–2008
	Victor Dominello	Liberal	2008–2023
	Jordan Lane	Liberal	2023–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Ryde

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Ryde.[edit]

2023 New South Wales state election: Ryde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jordan Lane	24,383	45.3	−4.4
	Labor	Lyndal Howison	21,004	39.0	+8.6
	Greens	Sophie Edington	5,772	10.7	+2.0
	Sustainable Australia	Bradley Jelfs	1,357	2.5	+0.9
	Informed Medical Options	Barry Devine	1,324	2.5	+2.5
Total formal votes			53,840	97.4	+0.1
Informal votes			1,441	2.6	−0.1
Turnout			55,281	89.4	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Jordan Lane	25,431	50.1	−8.9
	Labor	Lyndal Howison	25,377	49.9	+8.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	−8.9

External links

• "Ryde". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.