Electoral district of Meiling Bay

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.