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# Charlestown

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jodie_Harrison_MP.png?width=96)**Jodie Harrison** Labor, Charlestown ](https://politics.computer/mp/jodie-harrison)

About

## About Charlestown

Charlestown is an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Greater Newcastle, within the City of Lake Macquarie and a small part of the City of Newcastle. It is represented by Jodie Harrison of the Labor Party, who has held the seat since the 2014 by-election.

Created

1971, replacing parts of Hamilton and Kahibah

Held by the same party since

Labor, since the Charlestown by-election on 25 October 2014

Previous members

Andrew Cornwell, Liberal Party, elected at the 2011 election

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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