Division of Moreton
| Moreton Australian House of Representatives Division | |
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Division of Moreton in Queensland, as of the 2016 federal election. | |
| Created | 1901 |
| MP | Graham Perrett |
| Party | Labor |
| Namesake | Moreton Bay |
| Electors | 97,820 (2016) |
| Area | 111 km2 (42.9 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, though successive redistributions have resulted in it no longer bordering the bay; it is now completely landlocked. Nonetheless, it has retained the name of Moreton, mainly because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.[1]
The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors for 86 years before Labor regained it in 1990. From then until 2013, it was a bellwether seat, voting for the winning party in every election.
The seat is known for having decided the 1961 federal election. The Liberals only won the seat by 130 votes to give the Coalition a bare one-seat majority; had 93 Communist preferences gone the other way, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.
On its current boundaries, the seat is very multicultural, with significant Asian, South Eastern European, Arab and African population in the southern part of the electorate particularly in the suburbs of Sunnybank, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Moorooka.
Boundaries
Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, Macgregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Yeronga, and Yeerongpilly, and parts of Algester, Berrinba, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Drewvale, Eight Mile Plains, Parkinson, Sherwood, and Tarragindi, Corinda.
Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Wilkinson | Independent Labour | 1901–1904 | |
| Labour | 1904–1906 | ||
| Hugh Sinclair | Anti-Socialist | 1906–1909 | |
| Commonwealth Liberal | 1909–1917 | ||
| Nationalist | 1917–1919 | ||
| Arnold Wienholt | Nationalist | 1919–1922 | |
| Josiah Francis | Nationalist | 1922–1931 | |
| United Australia | 1931–1944 | ||
| Liberal | 1944–1955 | ||
| (Sir) James Killen | Liberal | 1955–1983 | |
| Don Cameron | Liberal | 1983–1990 | |
| Garrie Gibson | Labor | 1990–1996 | |
| Gary Hardgrave | Liberal | 1996–2007 | |
| Graham Perrett | Labor | 2007–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal National | Nic Monsour | 32,103 | 37.79 | −4.45 | |
| Labor | Graham Perrett | 31,342 | 36.90 | −1.83 | |
| Greens | Kristen Lyons | 10,812 | 12.73 | +2.74 | |
| Xenophon | Des Soares | 4,072 | 4.79 | +4.79 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Cooper | 2,783 | 3.28 | +3.28 | |
| Family First | Florian Heise | 2,507 | 2.95 | +1.43 | |
| Katter's Australian | Shan-Ju Lin | 1,329 | 1.56 | +0.26 | |
| Total formal votes | 84,948 | 95.89 | +1.51 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,641 | 4.11 | −1.51 | ||
| Turnout | 88,589 | 90.56 | −2.11 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Graham Perrett | 45,892 | 54.02 | +2.47 | |
| Liberal National | Nic Monsour | 39,056 | 45.98 | −2.47 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +2.47 | |||
References
- ↑ "Guidelines for naming divisions". Australian Electoral Commission. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ↑ Moreton, QLD, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.
External links
Coordinates: 27°33′50″S 153°01′52″E / 27.564°S 153.031°E