Division of Moreton

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Moreton
Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory: Queensland
Created: 1901
MP: Graham Perrett
Party: Labor
Namesake: Moreton Bay
Electors: 88,217
Area: 106 km² (40.9 sq mi)
Demographic: Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay.

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[edit] Boundaries

Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division covers an area of 107 square kilometres in 2005, and includes Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, Macgregor, Moorooka, Nathan, 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.

[edit] Members

Member Party Term
  James Wilkinson Independent Labour 1901—1904
  Labor 1904—1906
  Hugh Sinclair Anti-Socialist 1906—1909
  Commonwealth Liberal 1909—1916
  Nationalist 1916—1919
  Arnold Wienholt Nationalist 1919—1922
  Country 1922—1922
  Josiah Francis Nationalist 1922—1931
  United Australia 1931—1944
  Liberal 1944—1955
  James Killen Liberal 1955—1983
  Donald Milner Cameron Liberal 1983—1990
  Garrie Gibson Labor 1990—1996
  Gary Hardgrave Liberal 1996—2007
  Graham Perrett Labor 2007—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Moreton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Graham Perrett 37,908 47.11 +7.27
Liberal Gary Hardgrave 33,921 42.16 -5.41
Greens Emma Hine 5,548 6.89 +1.12
Family First Steve Christian 1,113 1.38 -1.40
Democrats Emad Soliman 1,015 1.26 -0.41
Independent Andrew Lamb 679 0.84 -0.10
Liberty and Democracy Shane Brown 282 0.35 +0.35
Total formal votes 80,466 96.86 +1.74
Informal votes 2,611 3.14 -1.74
Turnout 83,077 94.17 +0.37
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Labor Graham Perrett 44,055 54.75 +7.58
Liberal Gary Hardgrave 36,411 45.25 -7.58
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +7.58
Australian federal election, 2004: Moreton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gary Hardgrave 38,708 49.11 +1.90
Labor Graham Perrett 30,828 39.12 +0.14
Greens Jane Williamson 4,182 5.31 +1.47
Family First Terence Tam 2,142 2.72 +2.72
Democrats Frederika E Steen 1,307 1.66 -3.80
One Nation Barry Weedon 846 1.07 -2.37
Independent Andrew Lamb 799 1.01 -0.06
Total formal votes 78,812 95.06 -0.16
Informal votes 4,096 4.94 +0.16
Turnout 82,908 93.87 -1.30
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Liberal Gary Hardgrave 42,694 54.17 +1.61
Labor Graham Perrett 36,118 45.83 -1.61
Liberal hold Swing +1.61

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