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Federal division, rural

# Parkes

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [ **Jamie Chaffey** Nationals, Parkes ](https://politics.computer/mp/jamie-chaffey)

About

## About Parkes

Parkes is a rural Australian House of Representatives division in north-western New South Wales, covering Broken Hill and Dubbo as its main cities. It is held by Jamie Chaffey of The Nationals, who has been the sitting member since 2025\. The seat has been continuously held by the National Party since it was created in 1984.

Largest division by land area

406,755 km2, the largest in New South Wales

Named after

Sir Henry Parkes, seventh Premier of New South Wales

Created

Proclaimed at the 11 October 1984 redistribution

Previous members

Mark Coulton, 2007 to 2025, The Nationals

Held by the same party since

1984, The Nationals

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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