Division of Blaxland
| Blaxland Australian House of Representatives Division | |||||||||||||||
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| Created | 1949 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Jason Clare | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Gregory Blaxland | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 116,745 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 59 km2 (22.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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The Division of Blaxland is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
It covers 59 square kilometres (23 sq mi) of Labor heartland in the Canterbury Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Parramatta and Strathfield areas in Sydney's west. It stretches south from the M4 Motorway at Parramatta to the Hume Highway in western Yagoona. The Labor Party has continuously held the seat since its inception in 1949.
Since 2007 the MP for Blaxland has been Jason Clare, who has served as Minister for Education under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese since 2022. From 1969 to 1996, the seat was held by Paul Keating, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996.
Blaxland is an ethnically diverse and multicultural electorate, with Australia's second highest population of Muslims after neighbouring Watson and the highest share of non-English speakers. As of 2021, 20% of electors speak Arabic at home.