Gosford is an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Australia.
[1] It is represented by Liesl Tesch of the Labor Party, elected at the 2017 by-election.
At the redistribution prior to the 2007 election much of the district of Gosford, then held by Chris Hartcher for the Liberal Party, became part of the district of Terrigal while Gosford absorbed most of the former district of Peats, then held by Marie Andrews for the Labor Party.
[2] On its current boundaries, Gosford includes the suburbs of Bar Point, Blackwall, Booker Bay, Calga, Central Mangrove, Cheero Point, Cogra Bay, Ettalong Beach, Glenworth Valley, Gosford, Greengrove, Horsfield Bay, Kariong, Koolewong Little Wobby, Lower Mangrove, Mangrove Creek, Mangrove Mountain, Marlow, Mooney Mooney, Mooney Mooney Creek, Mount White, Narara, Patonga, Pearl Beach, Peats Ridge, Phegans Bay, Point Clare, Point Frederick, Somersby, Spencer, Tascott, Ten Mile Hollow, Umina Beach, Upper Mangrove, West Gosford, Wondabyne, Woy Woy, Woy Woy Bay and parts of East Gosford and North Gosford.
The percentage of people in Gosford who were born overseas was 15% which is slightly lower than the national average at 22.2% and the percentage of people who have Australian citizenship is only slightly higher than the national average of 86.1% at 88.4%.