Division of Kalgoorlie

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Kalgoorlie Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory:	Western Australia
Created:	1901
MP:	Barry Haase
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	Kalgoorlie
Electors:	80,773
Area:	2,295,354 km² (886,241.1 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

The Division of Kalgoorlie is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia. It is named after the town of Kalgoorlie. The Division covers most of rural Western Australia, and extends from the South Australian and Northern Territory borders in the east, to the Indian Ocean in the west and the Southern Ocean in the south to the Timor Sea in the north. Covering an area of 2,295,354 square kilometres (886,241 sq mi) (an area the size of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland and Great Britain combined),^[1] it is the largest single-member electoral division in the world^[2] (the next largest is Nunavut,^{[citation needed]} Canada, at 2,093,190 square kilometres (808,185 sq mi). It includes towns such as Broome, Port Hedland, Newman, Esperance and Kalgoorlie itself.

The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. It has been a marginal seat in recent years, and the ALP were hopeful of regaining it at the 2004 election, but ultimately failed, with the current member, Barry Haase, now holding a reasonable majority.

1 Members
2 Election results
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Members

	Party	Term
John Kirwan	Free Trade	1901—1903
Charles Frazer	Labor	1903—1913
Hugh Mahon	Labor	1913—1917
Edward Heitmann	Nationalist	1917—1919
Hugh Mahon	Labor	1919—1920
George Foley	Nationalist	1920—1922
Albert Green	Labor	1922—1940
Herbert Johnson	Labor	1940—1958
Peter Browne	Liberal	1958—1961
Frederick Collard	Labor	1961—1975
Mick Cotter	Liberal	1975—1980
Graeme Campbell	Labor	1980—1995
Graeme Campbell	Independent	1995—1998
Barry Haase	Liberal	1998—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Kalgoorlie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Barry Haase	31,565	48.14	+2.68
	Labor	Sharon Thiel	26,653	40.65	+8.73
	Greens	Robin Chapple	4,045	6.17	-0.16
	One Nation	Derek Major	1,075	1.64	-0.69
	Christian Democrats	Ross Patterson	962	1.47	+0.19
	Family First	Ian Rose	820	1.25	+1.25
	Citizens Electoral Council	Ian Burt	275	0.42	-0.07
	Liberty and Democracy	Charles Dalton	176	0.28	+0.27
Total formal votes			65,571	95.93	+1.27
Informal votes			2,785	4.07	-1.27
Turnout			68,356	84.63	+1.10
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Barry Haase	34,474	52.58	-3.72
	Labor	Sharon Thiel	31,097	47.42	+3.72
	Liberal hold		Swing	-3.72

Australian federal election, 2004: Kalgoorlie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Barry Haase	29,475	45.46	+2.86
	Labor	Tom Stephens	20,691	31.92	-3.14
	Independent	Graeme Campbell	6,654	10.26	+10.26
	Greens	Kado Muir	4,101	6.33	+2.55
	One Nation	Robin Scott	1,511	2.33	-6.27
	Christian Democrats	Craig Hendry	827	1.28	+1.28
	Independent	Brendon Cook	506	0.78	+0.78
	Democrats	Don Hoddy	496	0.77	-2.75
	Citizens Electoral Council	Lorraine Thomas	318	0.49	+0.33
	Independent	Nabil Haji Rowland	252	0.39	+0.39
Total formal votes			64,831	94.66	+0.26
Informal votes			3,656	5.34	-0.26
Turnout			68,487	83.53	-3.28
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Barry Haase	36,502	56.30	+1.96
	Labor	Tom Stephens	28,329	43.70	-1.96
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.96

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Division of Kalgoorlie. Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. Retrieved on 2007-06-29. (PDF, 167 kB)

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