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The Hills was an
electoral district of the
Legislative Assembly in the
Australian state of
New South Wales from 1962 to 2007. It was a 51.08 km² urban electorate in
Sydney's north-west, taking in the suburbs of
Carlingford,
Castle Hill,
Cherrybrook,
Glenhaven,
Kellyville,
Pennant Hills and
West Pennant Hills. There were 44,961 electors enrolled in the district as of the
1999 state election.
The Hills electorate was first contested in
1962, and has been a comfortably safe seat for the conservative
Liberal Party of Australia ever since its inception. It has tended to have long-serving members throughout its history, only having seen four members in more than forty years.
Max Ruddock (who has a park named after him at
Winston Hills held the seat from
1962 until his death in
1976, and was replaced by local mayor
Fred Caterson, who won more than 70% of the vote in the
subsequent by-election. Caterson served until
1990, when he retired and was replaced by used car dealer
Tony Packard. In contrast to his predecessors, Packard only lasted three years, and resigned amidst scandal in
1993. Although there was some speculation that the Liberal Party may lose the seat at the resulting
1993 by-election, Liberal candidate
Michael Richardson won easily and has been easily returned at every subsequent election.
The district was abolished from the
2007 state election as a result of the
2004 electoral redistribution. Much of the electorate was moved to the new electorate of
Castle Hill, with the remaining territory being split between
Hawkesbury,
Hornsby and
Epping.
Members for The Hills
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