Electoral district of Shellharbour

Shellharbour New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
File:Nsw electoral district shellharbour 2015.svg Location in Hunter-Sydney-Illawarra region
State	New South Wales
Dates current	2007–present
MP	Anna Watson
Party	Australian Labor Party
Area	292.39 km2 (112.9 sq mi)

Shellharbour is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Anna Watson who won Labor preselection after the former member Lylea McMahon decided not to contest the 2011 election.

It encompasses part of the City of Shellharbour (east of the South Coast line, as far south as Shell Cove, including Flinders, Shellharbour, Warilla, Barrack Heights, Barrack Point, Oak Flats, Mount Warrigal and Blackbutt) and the southwestern edge of the City of Wollongong (including Dapto, Kanahooka, Koonawarra, Horsley, Penrose and Yallah).

The seat was created at the 2004 redistribution of electoral districts and took in the majority of voters from the abolished Illawarra, as well as territory that previously belonged to Wollongong and Kiama.

Members for Shellharbour

Member		Party	Term
	Lylea McMahon	Labor	2007–2011
	Anna Watson	Labor	2011–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Shellharbour

New South Wales state election, 2015: Shellharbour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Anna Watson	26,897	52.7	+7.2
	Liberal	Mark Jones	13,125	25.7	−6.0
	Greens	Peter Moran	4,751	9.3	−5.2
	Independent	Wayne Quinn	2,266	4.4	+4.4
	Independent	Romeo Cecchele	1,596	3.1	+3.1
	Christian Democrats	John Kadwell	1,489	2.9	−3.4
	No Land Tax	Hugo Morvillo	875	1.7	+1.7
Total formal votes			50,999	95.6	+0.7
Informal votes			2,364	4.4	−0.7
Turnout			53,363	91.8	−0.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anna Watson	29,678	67.0	+9.2
	Liberal	Mark Jones	14,640	33.0	−9.2
	Labor hold		Swing	+9.2