The Robertson electorate
The Woy Woy Peninsula is wholly contained within the electoral division of Robertson.
The electoral area was named after New South Wales premier Sir John Robertson for 1816-1891.
According to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), Robertson covers an area of approximately 721 sq km.
This area stretches from the Hawkesbury River in the south, west to Wiseman's Ferry, north along the Gosford Council boundary to Mangrove Creek east by Warre Warren Creek and north east by high voltage power line alignment to the council boundary at a point in the very south east of Kulnura.
The boundary then extends east, following the council boundary to Lisarow, south along the main Northern Railway line to North Gosford, then east along Glennie St, Bradys Gully Rd, Clyde Rd, Carlton Rd, The Entrance Rd, Willoughby Rd to Dover Rd alignment and Terrigal Lagoon to its mouth.
The main centres include Gosford, Terrigal, Woy Woy and Erina.
The AEC stated that the main products and industries for the area were tourism, retail, service industries, light manufacturing and processing.
It also includes citrus, vegetable and flower growing, along with poultry products.
The first elections for the area were held in 1900-1901.
The AEC rates the area as "provincial".
The 12th and current sitting member is Liberal Party Minister Mr Jim Lloyd, having won the seat from former Labor Party member Frank Walker in 1996.
The electoral area of Robertson was described by the AEC as "fairly safe Liberal".
In the two party preferred view, Mr Lloyd won the 2004 Federal Election with 56.81 per cent of the vote, giving Labor candidate Ms Trish Moran 43.19 per cent.
The electorate of Robertson was redistributed in 2006.
If voters in the post redistribution area voted on the same lines, the two party preferred results from the AEC show that the vote would now be 43.13 per cent to the Labor Party and 56.87 per cent to the Liberal Party, a further gain to the Liberal Party of 0.06 per cent.
In Robertson, 93,695 residents had enrolled to vote as of September 28, an increase of 8170 voters since the 2004 Federal Election.
In the 2004 Federal Election, 85,525 residents were enrolled to vote, with 95.38 per cent of those actually turning up to vote.
Of those who did vote, 4.39 per cent voted informally.
The candidates for Robertson in this election, in the order that they will appear on the ballot paper, are Christian Democratic Party candidate George Grant, Family First candidate Daniel Le, Citizens Electoral Council candidate Nicholas Tomlin, One Nation candidate Helen Ryan, Greens candidate Mira Wroblewski, Liberal candidate Jim Lloyd and Labor candidate Belinda Neal.
Lyle Stone, 9 Nov 2007