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# Newtown

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jenny_Leong.jpg?width=96)**Jenny Leong** Greens, Newtown ](https://politics.computer/mp/jenny-leong)

About

## About Newtown

Newtown is an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, named after the inner Sydney suburb at its centre. It is held by Jenny Leong of the Greens, who has been the member since 2015\. Newtown includes suburbs such as Redfern, Chippendale, Newtown, Enmore and Stanmore.

Named after

The inner Sydney suburb of Newtown

Created

1859, with its present form recreated in 2013

Sitting member

Jenny Leong (Greens)

Member since

2015

Suburbs included

Redfern, Chippendale, Darlington, Eveleigh, Newtown, Enmore, Stanmore, Petersham

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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