THE POLL BLUDGER
New South Wales Legislative Assembly Election 2007

CAMPBELLTOWN
Labor 19.9%

The electorate of Campbelltown is in the south-western outskirts of Sydney, covering the built-up area on the east side of the Hume Highway from Ingleburn south to Campbelltown and undeveloped areas as far south as the Dharawal State Conservation Area. The redistribution has transferred 15,000 voters to the new electorate of Wollondilly in the west, including 5000 at Bradbury and 10,000 from Blairmount north to Eagle Vale. In the far north, it gains 16,000 new voters in Ingleburn and Minto from Macquarie Fields. The seat was created in 1968 and held for its first term by the Liberals, and thereafter by Labor. Olympics Minister Michael Knight was the member from 1981 until his mid-term retirement in 2001. The preselection for the subsequent by-election was won by Graham West (right), a 27-year-old researcher in Knight's ministerial office, who was elected with 59.0 per cent of the primary vote and no contest from the Liberals. A member of the Right faction, West was promoted to a parliamentary secretary position after the 2003 election, and currently serves in that capacity to the Treasurer and Finance Minister.

ASSESSMENT: Labor retain