Sitting Member last on ballot paper

Australian Conservatives candidate Mr Ross Blaikie will head the ballot paper and the sitting Member Mr Adam Crouch will be last, following the ballot draw was held on Thursday, March 7, at electoral office at Erina for the State seat of Terrigal.

The seven candidates for the State seat of Terrigal in order of the draw are:

Ross Blaikie, Australian Conservatives

Gary Chestnut, Independent

Robert Doyle, The Greens

Flavia Coleman, Animal Justice Party

Wayne Rigg, Sustainable Australia

Jeff Sundstrom, Labor

Adam Crouch, Liberal

In 2015, Mr Crouch won the seat on the two-party preferred result of 59 per cent of the vote against Labor's Mr Sundstrom on 41 per cent.

Mr Crouch is expected to retain the seat.

Terrigal was created at the 2007 election and was won by Liberal Mr Chris Hartcher who had transferred from the seat of Gosford which he had held since 1988 when he won against the Labor Member Mr Brian McGowan.

Mr Hartcher won Terrigal again in 2011 and he retired at the 2015 election.

The name Gosford has existed as an electorate since the 1950 election.

The seat covers 867.15 square kilometres, including postcodes 2083, 2250, 2256, 2257 and 2775.

People can vote early at the Gosford Gateway office, opposite the train station, from 8am until 6pm Monday to Friday with the office open two extra hours on Thursday night.

There are 12 early voting reasons outlined by the NSW Electoral Commission but no evidence is required to be produced.

The reasons include being at work, caring for someone, and the belief that attending a voting centre on election day would place you at risk.

Polling booths will be available at Brisbane Water Secondary College-Umina campus, Brisbane Water Secondary College-Woy Woy campus, Ettalong Public School, Pearl Beach Community Centre, South Woy Woy Progress Association Hall, Umina Beach Public School, Umina Community Hall, Umina Uniting Church and at Woy Woy South Public School.

SOURCE

Website, 7 Mar 2019

NSW Electoral Commission

Ballot draw, 7 Mar 2019

Erina Electoral Office