At the previous state election held in 2023, the
Labor Party (ALP), led by
Chris Minns, won the election after spending 12 years in opposition. The election saw Labor win 45 seats as opposed to the Coalition's 36 seats on election day, allowing Labor to form a
minority government. The Greens retained their three seats, while the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers lost all three of their seats as a result of their MPs resigning from the party to become independents in the 2019–2023 parliament, as well as two independents who gained seats. In the Legislative Council (the upper house), 21 of the 42 seats
were up for election. Both the Coalition and Labor won 15 seats each, however after the election of
Ben Franklin as President of the Legislative Council, the Coalition's effective total vote on the floor on the council was reduced to 14. The Greens won four seats in the Legislative Council. During the 2023–2027 term of parliament, the government announced plans to rezone and activate
Woollahra station, which is part of the
T4 eastern suburbs line but was never completed due to local opposition in an effort to solve housing supply issues and announced major housing policies (such as
transit-oriented development, the creation of a three-person panel named the
Housing Delivery Authority to expedite approvals and banned
no-fault evictions for renters as well as capping rent increases to once per year), and increased teachers' wages to attract more people to the profession. They have also acted upon a pledge at the
previous election to abolish the
land tax introduced by former premier
Dominic Perrottet. The government have also set in train processes to create new national parks based upon previous election pledges, those being in
Georges River for Koalas and one in the
North Coast to create a "
Great Koala National Park". The
Coalition opposition have proposed building new
metro lines. Since the 2023 state election, there have been six by-elections: in
Northern Tablelands,
Pittwater,
Epping,
Port Macquarie and
Kiama. As a result of these by-elections, Labor's share of seats increased by one to 46, one short of a majority and the Liberal seat count was reduced by one to 35. In November 2025, Speakman resigned as leader of the Liberal party and was replaced by shadow health minister
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