Division of Kooyong

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The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after an Indigenous Australian word meaning "camp" or "resting place", and shares its name with the suburb of Kooyong, Victoria.

Kooyong is currently a safe Liberal or non-Labor seat. The seat is considered to be the cradle of conservative leadership, with Kooyong hosting various figures of notable political stature, including former Prime Minister Robert Menzies and former Leaders of the Opposition Andrew Peacock and John Latham. Latham is also a former Deputy Prime Minister and former Chief Justice of Australia. The high-profile Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou now comfortably holds the seat. He successfully saw off a challenge from Joshua Frydenberg for Liberal Party preselection for the seat in April 2006.

There has been a reduction in the strength of the conservative vote in recent years. In the 1994 by-election for Kooyong, Peter Singer achieved 28.03% for the primary vote as a candidate for the Greens when the ALP did not run a candidate.

The Greens primary vote in Kooyong increased from 10.7% in 2001 to 12.3% in 2004, when Kooyong received the 11th highest Green primary vote of all House of Representative seats in Australia.

Kooyong is now held by a smaller margin (in 2004 Two Party Preferred LP 59.58% ALP 40.42%) than the seat of Aston (2004 Two Party Preferred LP 63.15% ALP 36.85%), which was classified as a marginal seat in 2001.

[edit] Members

Member Party Term
William Knox Free Trade/Commonwealth Liberal 1901 — 1910
Sir Robert Best Commonwealth Liberal/Nationalist 1910 — 1922
Sir John Latham Independent/Nationalist/United Australia 1922 — 1934
Sir Robert Menzies United Australia/Liberal 1934 — 1966
Andrew Peacock Liberal 1966 — 1994
Petro Georgiou Liberal 1994 — present

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Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

Aston | Ballarat | Batman | Bendigo | Bruce | Calwell | Casey | Chisholm | Corangamite | Corio | Deakin | Dunkley | Flinders | Gellibrand | Gippsland | Goldstein | Gorton | Higgins | Holt | Hotham | Indi | Isaacs | Jagajaga | Kooyong | Lalor | La Trobe | McEwen | McMillan | Mallee | Maribyrnong | Melbourne | Melbourne Ports | Menzies | Murray | Scullin | Wannon | Wills
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