Electoral district of West Lynn

West Lynn West-Lynn 林区西 Línqū Xī 西リン Nishi-Rin Enderronian Parliament
File:WestLynnElectorate.png Location of West Lynn in New Plymouth
District Details
Created	1990
MP	Terri Scott
Party	Social Democrats
Namesake	Borough of Lynn
Electors	131,684
Area	TBA km²
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

West Lynn is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in New Plymouth, first contested at the 1990 federal election. It is named after the inner-city Borough of Lynn, and encompasses its western half.

The sitting member, since the 2014 federal election, is Terri Scott, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History

West Lynn was created at the 1990 redistribution, in which the district of Lynn was abolished and split into East Lynn and West Lynn. West Lynn was proclaimed as a marginal SDP seat on paper, but was narrowly won at its first election by Hugh Markworth of the United Party. After a single term, he was soundly defeated by the Social Democrats' Kuan-lin Hsiung as part of the United Party's electoral wipeout in the 1994 federal election. Hsiung, a first-generation Taiwanese Enderronian, resigned from the Social Democrats in 1997 following disagreements over the party's policies regarding China and Taiwan, and was re-elected as an independent in 1998. He was in turn defeated by Social Democrat Colin Andersen in 2002, who resigned in 2004 following corruption charges. The Enderronian Greens' deputy leader, Jeremy Radford narrowly won the ensuing by-election, giving the party its first seat in Parliament. Although he lost the seat in the 2006 election, the Greens remain a strong contender in the electorate, having featured in the two-candidate-preferred count ever since.

Members

#	Member		Party	Term
1		Hugh Markworth	United	1990–1994
2		Kuan-lin Hsiung	Social Democrats	1994–1997
			Independent	1997–2002
3		Colin Andersen	Social Democrats	2002–2004
4		Jeremy Radford	Greens	2004–2006
5		Sharon Scott	Social Democrats	2006–2014
6		Terri Scott	Social Democrats	2014–

Election results

Enderronian federal election, 2018: West Lynn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democrats	Terri Scott	37,894	31.12	–1.73
	Greens	Martin Hertog	33,121	27.20	+1.24
	Liberal	Samuel Berrettini	26,631	21.87	–4.64
	Pirate	Jamie Fraga	7,038	5.78	+5.78
	Anti-Development	Jessica Chen	3,957	3.25	+3.25
	Left Bloc	Sabrina Sandler	2,155	1.77	+0.67
	Libertarian	Autumn Keane	1,717	1.41	+0.33
	Unity	Mike Russell	1,145	0.94	–0.48
	Independent	Ahmed Salaam	804	0.66	+0.66
Total formal votes			121,768	95.44	–1.08
Informal votes			5,824	4.56	+1.08
Turnout			127,592	96.89	+2.61
Two-party-preferred result
	Social Democrats	Terri Scott	70,029	57.51	+2.54
	Liberal	Samuel Berrettini	51,739	42.49	–2.54
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Social Democrats	Terri Scott	61,164	50.23	–3.47
	Greens	Martin Hertog	60,604	49.77	+3.47
	Social Democrats hold		Swing	–3.47