Mount Druitt is an electoral district

New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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 of the Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

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n state of New South Wales

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. It is a 89.01 km² urban electorate in Sydney's outer west, taking in the suburbs of Mount Druitt, Marsden Park, and Arndell Park. There were 45,408 voters enrolled in time for the 2003 elections. Mount Druitt is known as a largely working-class area, and as such, the electorate has tended to strongly support the Australian Labor Party. The current member for Mount Druitt, Richard Amery, has held the seat since 1991.

History

Mount Druitt was originally created in 1971 and abolished prior to the 1981 election

New South Wales state election, 1981

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 and replaced by St Marys

Electoral district of St Marys

St Marys was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1981 to 1988 and 1991 to 1999, which included the suburb of St Marys and replaced Mount Druitt. It was abolished in 1999.-Members for St Marys:...

. It was re-established prior to the 1991 election

New South Wales state election, 1991

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. It is an area which has always heavily voted Labor

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Members for Mount Druitt

First incarnation (1971—1981)
Member		Party	Term
	Jim Southee Jim Southee James Bernard "Jim" Southee was an Australian politician. He was an Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Blacktown from 1962 to 1971 and Mount Druitt from 1971 to 1973....	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1971 New South Wales state election, 1971 Elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 13 February 1971. The Liberal-Country Party coalition government led by Sir Robert Askin won a third term in office. The Labor Party opposition was led by Pat Hills.The... —1973 New South Wales state election, 1973 Elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 17 November 1973. The result was a win for the Liberal-Country Party coalition under Sir Robert Askin, which had been in office since 1965....
	Tony Johnson	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1973 New South Wales state election, 1973 Elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 17 November 1973. The result was a win for the Liberal-Country Party coalition under Sir Robert Askin, which had been in office since 1965.... —1981 New South Wales state election, 1981 Elections were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 19 September 1981. The result was a second "Wranslide": a landslide victory for the Australian Labor Party under Neville Wran, in which the government increased its already sizeable majority.The Liberals suffered the double...
Second incarnation (1991—present)
Member		Party	Term
	Richard Amery Richard Amery Richard Sanderson Amery MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Mount Druitt for the Australian Labor Party since 1991...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1991 New South Wales state election, 1991 Elections to the 50th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 25 May 1991. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election... —present

Election results