Created in
1971, Miranda had traditionally been a electorate, being won by only at landslide elections, two under
Neville Wran in
1978 and
1981, and again under
Bob Carr in
1999 and
2003. According to
ABC psephologist Antony Green, the seat should have been recovered by the Liberals in
2007 but was narrowly retained by Labor. On a margin of 0.8 percent it was the Labor government's most marginal seat. In
2011 the Liberals won government in a landslide, and the seat of Miranda on a very safe 21.0 percent margin, with 39 seats held by the
Coalition on smaller margins. The seat was made vacant following the resignation of Liberal MP
Graham Annesley. The
2013 Miranda by-election was conducted on 19 October, Labor's
Barry Collier won the seat with a two-party swing of 26 percent in the largest by-election swing in the state's history. He did not stand for re-election at the
2015 NSW State election and the seat was subsequently won by the Liberal Party's Eleni Petinos. ==Members for Miranda==