Division of Wentworth

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Wentworth
Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory: New South Wales
Created: 1901
MP: Malcolm Turnbull
Party: Liberal
Namesake: William Wentworth
Electors: 100,276
Area: 30 km² (11.6 sq mi)
Demographic: Inner Metropolitan

The Federal Division of Wentworth is a foundation division of the Australian Parliament, created at the Federation of the Australian Colonies as the Commonwealth of Australia. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The Division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), a noted Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompanied Blaxland and Lawson on their crossing of the Blue Mountains. It is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with North Sydney, which have never been held by the ALP, though Jessie Street came close in the 1943 election. It was considered a blue-ribbon Liberal seat, and according the census, has the highest per-capita income of all seats in Australia.

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[edit] Area

Location in Sydney
Location in Sydney

Wentworth covers an area of approximately 29 km² from Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly. The western boundary runs along Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Downling Street, then eastward along Alison Road to Randwick Racecourse and Clovelly Beach. The Division of Wentworth is the division with the smallest geographical area in Australia.

It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Clovelly, Darling Point, Dover Heights, Double Bay, Edgecliff, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Queens Park, Randwick, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley and Woollahra.

The electoral redistribution in 2005 added the suburbs of Centennial Park, Darlinghurst, East Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Potts Point and Woolloomooloo while reducing the area of Randwick included in the division.

[edit] Members

Member Party Term
  William McMillan Free Trade 19011903
  William Kelly Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 19031909
  Commonwealth Liberal 19091916
  Nationalist 19161919
  Walter Marks Nationalist 19191929
  Independent 19291931
  United Australia 19311931
  Eric Harrison United Australia 19311944
  Liberal 19441956
  Les Bury Liberal 1956—1974
  Robert Ellicott Liberal 19741981
  Peter Coleman Liberal 1981—1987
  John Hewson Liberal 1987—1995
  Andrew Thomson Liberal 19952001
  Peter King Liberal 20012004
  Independent 20042004
  Malcolm Turnbull Liberal 2004—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Wentworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 44,463 50.37 +10.10
Labor George Newhouse 26,903 30.48 +1.55
Greens Susan Jarnason 13,205 14.96 +2.10
Climate Change Coalition Dixie Coulton 1,156 1.31 +1.31
Independent Dani Ecuyer 774 0.88 +0.88
Democrats Pierce Field 721 0.82 -0.28
Christian Democrats Bradley Molony 323 0.37 +0.37
Independent Pat Sheil 265 0.30 +0.06
Family First James Adams 255 0.29 -0.04
Liberty and Democracy Jonatan Kelu 129 0.15 +0.15
Citizens Electoral Council John Jamieson 78 0.09 -0.01
Total formal votes 88,272 95.10 +1.05
Informal votes 4,548 4.90 -1.05
Turnout 92,820 92.56 -0.54
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 47,538 53.85 +1.34
Labor George Newhouse 40,734 46.15 -1.34
Liberal hold Swing +1.34
Australian federal election, 2004: Wentworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 30,771 41.79 -10.29
Labor David Patch 19,391 26.34 -3.18
Independent Peter King 13,236 17.98 +17.98
Greens Mithra Cox 8,210 11.15 +1.38
Democrats Lindy Morrison 683 0.93 -5.22
Independent Robert Vogler 339 0.46 +0.46
Family First Leonie Hull 301 0.41 +0.41
Fishing Party Victor Shen 239 0.32 +0.32
Independent Pat Sheil 218 0.30 +0.30
No GST Brian Buckley 171 0.23 +0.23
Citizens Electoral Council John Jamieson 65 0.09 +0.09
Total formal votes 73,624 93.82 -1.33
Informal votes 4,853 6.18 +1.33
Turnout 78,477 92.34 +0.61
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 40,847 55.48 -2.38
Labor David Patch 32,777 44.52 +2.38
Liberal hold Swing -2.38

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