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Federal division, rural

# Richmond

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Justine_Elliot.jpg?width=96)**Justine Elliot** Labor, Richmond ](https://politics.computer/mp/justine-elliot)

About

## About Richmond

Richmond is a rural House of Representatives seat in northern New South Wales, covering coastal towns such as Ballina, Byron Bay and Tweed Heads on the Pacific coast south of the Queensland border. It is held by Justine Elliot of the Australian Labor Party, who has been the sitting member since 2004\. The division was proclaimed in 1900 and was held by the National Party for most of the period from 1922 to 2004.

Classification

Rural

Sitting member

Justine Elliot, Australian Labor Party

Created

Proclaimed in 1900

Named after

The Richmond River, named in honour of Charles, fifth Duke of Richmond

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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- [Cowper](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cowper)
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- [Kingsford Smith](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/kingsford-smith)
- [Lindsay](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/lindsay)
- [Lyne](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/lyne)

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