Division of Robertson

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Robertson
Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory: New South Wales
Created: 1901
MP: Belinda Neal
Party: Labor
Namesake: John Robertson
Electors: 94,334
Area: 721 km² (278.4 sq mi)
Demographic: Provincial

The Division of Robertson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located on the Central Coast, immediately north of the Hawkesbury River. It encompasses the towns of Woy Woy, Gosford and Terrigal.

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 Sir John Robertson, fifth Premier of New South Wales.

In the 2007 federal election, the Division was contested by the incumbent Jim Lloyd, the former federal Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, and the Labor candidate Belinda Neal, who unsuccessfully contested the seat in the 1998 federal election after resigning from the Senate. The election results in Robertson were very close, and the two-candidate preferred vote stood only 237 votes apart (42,562 votes for Lloyd and 42,799 votes for Neal) after a week's counting. Belinda Neal claimed victory on December 5 with 95% of the votes counted and 50.1% of the two-party preferred vote.[1]

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[edit] Members

Member Party Term
  Henry Willis Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 1901—1910
  William Johnson Labor 1910—1913
  William Fleming Commonwealth Liberal 1913—1916
  Nationalist 1916—1921
  Country 1921—1922
  Sydney Gardner Nationalist 1922—1931
  United Australia 1931—1940
  Eric Spooner United Australia 1940—1943
  Thomas Williams Labor 1943—1949
  Roger Dean Liberal 1949—1964
  William Bridges-Maxwell Liberal 1964—1969
  Barry Cohen Labor 1969—1990
  Frank Walker Labor 1990—1996
  Jim Lloyd Liberal 1996—2007
  Belinda Neal Labor 2007—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Robertson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jim Lloyd 39,792 45.63 -7.83
Labor Belinda Neal 37,437 42.93 +8.29
Greens Mira Wroblewski 6,279 7.20 -0.65
Christian Democrats George Grant 1,929 2.21 +2.21
One Nation Helen Ryan 924 1.06 -0.66
Family First Daniel Le 708 0.81 -0.91
Citizens Electoral Council Nicholas Tomlin 141 0.16 -0.11
Total formal votes 87,210 96.56 +1.09
Informal votes 3,109 3.44 -1.09
Turnout 90,319 95.74 +0.11
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Labor Belinda Neal 43,697 50.11 +6.98
Liberal Jim Lloyd 43,513 49.89 -6.98
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +6.98
Australian federal election, 2004: Robertson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jim Lloyd 41,816 53.62 +2.82
Labor Trish Moran 27,107 34.76 +0.68
Greens Terry Jones 6,200 7.95 +4.63
One Nation Don Parkes 1,344 1.72 -1.36
Family First Carolyn Dorhauer 1,312 1.68 +1.68
Citizens Electoral Council Nicholas Tomlin 211 0.27 +0.10
Total formal votes 77,990 95.61 +1.72
Informal votes 3,581 4.39 -1.72
Turnout 81,571 95.38 -0.17
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Liberal Jim Lloyd 44,308 56.81 -0.17
Labor Trish Moran 33,682 43.19 +0.17
Liberal hold Swing -0.17

[edit] References

  1. ^ Labor takes seat of Robertson. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2007-12-05). Retrieved on 2007-12-07.

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