2024 Hornsby state by-election

2024 Hornsby state by-election

TBA (2024)
Electoral district of Hornsby in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Candidate TBA Party Liberal
Incumbent MP Matt Kean Liberal

A by-election will be held in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Hornsby in 2024, following the resignation of Liberal Party MP Matt Kean on 18 June 2024.

Background

The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Liberal MP Matt Kean, who served as the state party's deputy leader and as the state's Treasurer under Premier Dominic Perrottet. He held many other ministerial roles under both Perrottet and his predecessor, Gladys Berejiklian. Kean is a member of the party's Moderate faction, and during Perrottet's tenure as Premier was regarded as the faction's de facto leader in New South Wales.

Hornsby is a blue-ribbon seat in northern Sydney, and is one of two of the original post-1927 electoral districts to have only ever been held by the Liberal Party, its predecessors or an independent, the other being Vaucluse.

Previous results

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

2023 New South Wales state election: Hornsby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Matt Kean	23,451	43.3	−11.6
	Labor	Melissa Hoile	13,418	24.8	+4.0
	Greens	Tania Salitra	7,738	14.3	+3.3
	One Nation	Steve Busch	4,298	7.9	+4.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jeffrey Grimshaw	2,125	3.9	+3.9
	Independent	Benjamin Caswell	1,557	2.9	+2.9
	Sustainable Australia	Justin Thomas	918	1.7	+1.7
	Independent	Adrian Dignam	661	1.2	+1.2
Total formal votes			54,166	97.6	+0.1
Informal votes			1,308	2.4	−0.1
Turnout			55,474	92.0	+0.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Matt Kean	26,506	58.0	−8.8
	Labor	Melissa Hoile	19,163	42.0	+8.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	−8.8

See also

• Electoral results for the district of Hornsby
• List of New South Wales state by-elections