Division of Denison
Denison Australian House of Representatives Division | |
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Created | 1903 |
MP | Andrew Wilkie |
Party | Independent |
Namesake | William Denison |
Electors | 74,963 (2016) |
Area | 288 km2 (111.2 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Denison is an Australian electoral division in Tasmania. The division was one of the five established when the former Division of Tasmania was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1847–55.
The division is located in central Hobart on the western shore of the River Derwent. As at the 2016 election, it incorporates the area covered by the Cities of Hobart and Glenorchy, together with the northern parts of Kingborough Council, including Taroona, generally north of the Huon Highway. kunanyi / Mount Wellington is a prominent physical feature in the division's west.
Denison has been a consistently marginal seat, but was held by the Australian Labor Party between 1987 and 2010 with little difficulty. Its most prominent members have been Sir Philip Fysh, a member of the first federal Cabinet, Athol Townley, Minister for Defence in the Menzies Government, and Duncan Kerr, a minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments. Townley resigned in 1964 when he was named Ambassador to the United States, but he died before taking up the appointment. Another prominent member is the incumbent independent MP Andrew Wilkie, elected at the 2010 election. Denison has had 16 different members, the most (with Bass, Bendigo and Swan) of any federal electorate.
As part of a 2016-17 redistribution, Denison is to replaced by the Division of Clark.[1]
Members
Member | Party | Term | |
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Sir Philip Fysh | Protectionist | 1903–1906 | |
Anti-Socialist | 1906–1909 | ||
Commonwealth Liberal | 1909–1910 | ||
William Laird Smith | Labor | 1910–1916 | |
National Labor | 1916–1917 | ||
Nationalist | 1917–1922 | ||
David O'Keefe | Labor | 1922–1925 | |
Sir John Gellibrand | Nationalist | 1925–1928 | |
Charles Culley | Labor | 1928–1931 | |
Arthur Hutchin | United Australia | 1931–1934 | |
Gerald Mahoney | Labor | 1934–1940 | |
Arthur Beck | United Australia | 1940–1943 | |
Frank Gaha | Labor | 1943–1949 | |
Athol Townley | Liberal | 1949–1963 | |
Adrian Gibson | Liberal | 1964–1969 | |
Robert Solomon | Liberal | 1969–1972 | |
John Coates | Labor | 1972–1975 | |
Michael Hodgman | Liberal | 1975–1987 | |
Duncan Kerr | Labor | 1987–2010 | |
Andrew Wilkie | Independent | 2010–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Andrew Wilkie | 29,372 | 44.07 | +5.99 | |
Labor | Jane Austin | 15,335 | 23.01 | −1.74 | |
Liberal | Marcus Allan | 13,267 | 19.90 | −3.33 | |
Greens | Jen Brown | 7,068 | 10.60 | +2.68 | |
Christian Democrats | Amanda Excell | 980 | 1.47 | +1.47 | |
Democratic Labour | Wayne Williams | 632 | 0.95 | +0.10 | |
Total formal votes | 66,654 | 97.08 | +1.30 | ||
Informal votes | 2,002 | 2.92 | −1.30 | ||
Turnout | 68,656 | 92.82 | −1.44 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jane Austin | 43,550 | 65.34 | +6.43 | |
Liberal | Marcus Allan | 23,104 | 34.66 | −6.43 | |
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Andrew Wilkie | 45,176 | 67.78 | +2.27 | |
Labor | Jane Austin | 21,478 | 32.22 | −2.27 | |
Independent hold | Swing | +2.27 |
References
- ^ "Names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions in Tasmania decided". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ Denison, TAS, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.