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Federal division, rural

# Lyne

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [ **Alison Penfold** Nationals, Lyne ](https://politics.computer/mp/alison-penfold)

About

## About Lyne

Lyne is a rural federal electoral division in New South Wales, on the Tasman Sea coast, stretching from Hawks Nest to Lake Cathie and including the city of Taree. It is held by Alison Penfold of The Nationals, who has represented the seat since 2025.

Created

1949 redistribution

Named after

Sir William Lyne, Premier of New South Wales at Federation

Classification

Rural

Previous members

Mark Vaile, Rob Oakeshott, David Gillespie

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FLyne), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Lyne whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Lyne yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Lyne are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

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