Judith Anne Hannan (née Irvine) is an Australian politician. She was elected a member of the

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representing

Wollondilly Wollondilly Shire is a periurban local government area that is located on the far southwest fringe of the Greater Sydney area in New South Wales, Australia. The local government area is part of the Macarthur and Blue Mountains regions. The Wol ...

as an Independent in

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Political career

She was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 2001 Auburn state by-election. She then unsuccessfully contested Granville at the

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. In 2004, she ran for

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in North Ward. In the 2011 New South Wales state election, Hannan contested Wollondilly for the Hatton's Independent Team but came in third place. Prior to the

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, she had been courted as a possible Liberal candidate by then-Premier

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. Nathaniel Smith was selected as the Liberal candidate for Wollondilly instead. Hannan ran as an independent against Smith, achieving 44.5% of the two-party preferred vote. In the 2023 election, she ran again as an independent and was supported by the teal-aligned Climate 200.

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