Electoral district of Kingston

Kingston is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in New Plymouth. It was created in 1818 and first contested at the inaugural general election later that year. It is one of two electorates contested at every election since 1818, the other being Wentworth in Wentworth Metropolis. The district of Kingston is located in the city's densely populated inner western suburbs, and is one of the smallest electorates by area.

The sitting member, since the 2018 federal election, is Jeremy Mitschke, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History
Kingston was long regarded as Enderron's most well-known "bellwether seat". From the 1937 election until the 2010 election, Kingston was won by the party that also won the election. In the 2014 election, Liberal incumbent Hailey Gillam narrowly held Kingston by a two-party preferred margin of 0.67 percent, while the Social Democratic Party defeated the Liberals in the overall election and formed government, breaking the 77-year streak and making Gillam the seat's first opposition MP since 1934. The seat returned to the party of government in the following election in 2018, after Gillam was defeated by the Social Democrats' Jeremy Mitschke.