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==Government and politics== [[File:Newcastle Town Hall - 50732203368.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Newcastle City Hall (Australia)|Newcastle City Hall]]]]With its history as a traditionally working-class area, Newcastle has been a stronghold for the [[centre-left]] [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] at all levels of politics since [[Federation (Australia)|Federation]]. Labor currently holds every federal and state seat that overlaps at least partially with Newcastle. The only area of Greater Newcastle where the [[centre-right]] [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] has ever been consistently competitive is the [[Port Stephens (New South Wales)|Port Stephens]] region in the north of the Newcastle metropolitan area, as well as in some beachside, middle-class suburbs near the Newcastle CBD such as [[Bar Beach, New South Wales|Bar Beach]] and [[Merewether, New South Wales|Merewether]]. The Port Stephens area is traditionally marginal and while historically was dominated by Labor, has been won by the Liberals. One time the Liberals did win seats in Newcastle was at the [[2011 New South Wales state election|2011 state election]]. At this election, the [[incumbent]] [[New South Wales Labor Party|Labor]] government, led by then-[[Premier of New South Wales|Premier]] [[Kristina Keneally]], was defeated by the [[New South Wales Liberal Party|Liberal]]-[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]], led by then-[[Leader of the Opposition (New South Wales)|Opposition Leader]] [[Barry O'Farrell]], in a [[landslide victory|landslide]], suffering the worst ever defeat of a sitting government in New South Wales history and (at the time) the worst defeat of a sitting government anywhere in Australia since [[World War II]]. Labor won just 20 seats in the [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly]]; of these, only two ([[Electoral district of Cessnock|Cessnock]] and [[Electoral district of Wallsend|Wallsend]]) were in the [[Hunter Region]]. Before the election, the Liberal Party only held one seat in the entire Hunter Region (the seat of [[Electoral district of Port Stephens|Port Stephens]], which the party narrowly gained from Labor in [[2007 New South Wales state election|2007]]). However, at the subsequent state election in [[2015 New South Wales state election|2015]], although the Coalition retained [[majority government]] (and subsequently retained government again in [[2019 New South Wales state election|2019]] before Labor formed a [[minority government]] in [[2023 New South Wales state election|2023]]), the party lost all of its Hunter-based seats.[[File:Newcastle courthouse OIC.jpg|thumb|[[Newcastle Court House]]]]There are three [[Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives|federal electoral divisions]] that are mostly or entirely within Greater Newcastle: [[Division of Newcastle|Newcastle]] (covering the inner-city suburbs; this seat has only ever elected Labor MPs since it was created in [[List of Australian electorates contested at every election|1901]]), [[Division of Paterson|Paterson]] (covering the Port Stephens area as well as the nearby city of [[Maitland, New South Wales|Maitland]] and the town of [[Kurri Kurri]]; this seat is currently a marginal Labor seat that the Liberals have won previously, though it historically included more rural areas and did not include Maitland or Kurri Kurri) and [[Division of Shortland|Shortland]] (a fairly safe Labor seat that includes the eastern suburbs of the [[Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)|Lake Macquarie]] region in southern Newcastle, and extends to the far northeastern suburbs of the [[Central Coast (New South Wales)|Central Coast]]). The traditionally Labor-held seat of [[Division of Hunter|Hunter]] (now a marginal Labor seat) is based around the western portion of the [[Hunter Region|Hunter]], but includes some western and Southern suburbs of Newcastle. On the state level, there are five [[Electoral districts of New South Wales|electoral districts]] that are located entirely within Greater Newcastle; of these, four ([[Electoral district of Charlestown|Charlestown]], [[Electoral district of Newcastle|Newcastle]], [[Electoral district of Port Stephens|Port Stephens]] and [[Electoral district of Swansea|Swansea]]) are Labor seats while the remaining seat ([[Electoral district of Lake Macquarie|Lake Macquarie]]) is held by an [[Independent politicians in Australia|independent]]. Greater Newcastle also includes five [[Local government areas of New South Wales|local government area]]s (LGAs): the [[City of Newcastle]], the [[City of Lake Macquarie]], the [[City of Cessnock]], the [[City of Maitland]] and the [[Port Stephens Council]].
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