Electoral district of Meiling Bay

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Location of Meiling Bay in Janszoon 	Location of Meiling Bay in Janszoon 	Location of Meiling Bay in Janszoon
District Details 	District Details 	District Details
Created 	1978 	
MP 	Jim Powell 	
Party 	Social Democrats 	
Namesake 	Meiling Bay 	
Electors 	135,886 	
Area 	6,371 km² 	
Demographic 	Rural 	
Meiling Bay is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Janszoon Prefecture. It was created in 1978 and first contested at the federal election later that year. It is named after Meiling Bay, a bay of Lake Macquarie. The electoral district takes in most of Northern Janszoon and the East Shore, covering 53 percent of the prefecture's total land area. However, it is sparsely populated, with its largest population centre being the town of Meiling Bay.
The sitting member, since the 2018 federal election, is Jim Powell, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
Meiling Bay has changed significantly since its creation in 1978. Originally a provincial seat covering a peri-urban strip on the southern bank of Lake Macquarie, successive redistributions have caused Meiling Bay to expand southwards due to population decline in Northern Janszoon. In its original configuration, Meiling Bay was a fairly safe seat for the Social Democrats. The electorate was most heavily altered in the 1998 redistribution, in which the neighbouring seat of Parkes was abolished and Meiling Bay was pushed well to the southeast to take in Parkes' former territory of the East Shore. The redistribution turned it into a marginal seat, where the town of Meiling Bay and other regional communities tilt towards the SDP whereas the rest of the electorate leans conservative.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Frank Wilson	Social Democrats	1978–1994
2	 	Harry Tudor 	Social Democrats	1994–1998
3	 	Ken Sampson 	Conservative 	1998–2000
3	 	Ken Sampson 	Liberal 	2000–2010
4	 	Alyssa Liu 	Liberal 	2010–2018
5	 	Jim Powell 	Social Democrats	2018–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Meiling Bay
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Liberal 	Alyssa Liu 	45,196 	37.45 	–0.84
 	Social Democrats 	Jim Powell 	40,429 	33.50 	+2.21
 	Greens 	Takeshi Koyama 	17,885 	14.82 	+1.46
 	National 	Dave Allen 	8,882 	7.36 	–2.17
 	Democrats 	Stephen Little 	5,117 	4.24 	–3.10
 	Anti-Development 	Rory Tokunaga 	2,257 	1.87 	+1.87
 	Unity 	Ranjit Singh 	917 	0.76 	–0.52
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	120,684 	96.37 	+1.14
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	4,541 	3.63 	–1.14
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	125,225 	92.15 	–1.36
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Social Democrats 	Jim Powell 	60,487 	50.12 	+1.55
 	Liberal 	Alyssa Liu 	60,197 	49.88 	–1.55
 	Social Democrats gain from Liberal 	Social Democrats gain from Liberal 	Swing 	+1.55 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Janszoon Prefecture
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