Division of Werriwa

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Werriwa
Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory: New South Wales
Created: 1901
MP: Chris Hayes
Party: Australian Labor Party
Namesake: Lake George (Aboriginal name)
Electors: 90,307
Area: 160 km² (61.8 sq mi)
Demographic: Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Werriwa is a Federal Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives.

The name Werriwa derives from a local Aboriginal name for Lake George, which was located in the division when it was established in 1900. The division was one of the original 75 divisions first contested at the first federal election. At that time, the electorate was a large rural one that stretched from the south west of Sydney to the northern part of what is now the ACT.

In succeeding years, with demographic change and electoral redistributions, Werriwa began to shrink and from 1913 onwards no longer contained Lake George. In spite of this, and further major changes to its borders that saw it become a south-western Sydney suburban electorate over 150 km away from Lake George, it has retained the name of Werriwa, primarily as it is an original Federation electorate - the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original Federation electorates where possible.

Werriwa now covers an area of approximately 168 km² from Raby, St Andrews and parts of Leumeah in the south to Kemps Creek, Cecil Hills, Green Valley, Miller, Cartwright, Lurnea and Casula in the north and bounded by the Georges River to the east and generally by South Creek, Kemps Creek and the Camden/Campbelltown Council boundary to the west. The main suburbs include Austral, Cartwright, Casula, Cecil Hills, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Glenfield, Green Valley, Hinchinbrook, Hoxton Park, Ingleburn, Kemps Creek, Leumeah (part), Lurnea, Macquarie Fields, Miller, Minto, Prestons, Raby, St Andrews, Varroville and Woodbine.

Werriwa was represented from 1994 to 2005 by Mark Latham, the former Leader of the Federal Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2003-2005. It is also remembered for being the electorate (1952-78) of Latham's mentor and one-time employer, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

It most recently faced a by-election in March 2005, when Labor's Chris Hayes was elected with over 55% of the vote, in a 16-candidate race which saw no other candidate poll above 8%.

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[edit] Members

Member Party Term
  Alfred Conroy Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 1901—1906
  David Hall Labor 1906—1912
  Benjamin Bennett Labor 1912—1913
  Alfred Conroy Commonwealth Liberal 1913—1914
  John Lynch Labor 1914—1916
  Nationalist 1916—1918
  Hubert Lazzarini Labor 1919—1931
  Lang Labor 1931—1931
  Walter McNicoll Country 1931—1934
  Hubert Lazzarini Lang Labor 1934—1936
  Labor 1936—1952
  Gough Whitlam Labor 1952—1978
  John Kerin Labor 1978—1994
  Mark Latham Labor 1994—2005
  Chris Hayes Labor 2005—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Werriwa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Chris Hayes 46,892 58.83 +8.92
Liberal Rachel Elliott 24,046 30.17 -7.44
Greens Neerav Bhatt 3,022 3.79 +0.07
Independent Joe Bryant 2,016 2.53 +2.53
Family First Andrew Mills 1,920 2.41 +2.00
Christian Democrats Hany Gayed 1,814 2.28 +1.90
Total formal votes 79,710 93.47 +1.45
Informal votes 5,569 6.53 -1.45
Turnout 85,279 94.43 +1.10
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Labor Chris Hayes 51,999 65.24 +8.30
Liberal Rachel Elliott 27,711 34.76 -8.30
Labor hold Swing +8.30
Werriwa by-election, 2005
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Chris Hayes 37,286 55.54 +2.90
Independent James Young 3,237 7.80 +7.80
Greens Ben Raue 3,726 5.55 +2.42
Australians Against Further Immigration Janey Woodger 3,243 4.83 +4.83
Family First Mick Sykes 2,890 4.31 +4.31
Independent Joe Bryant 2,696 3.78 +3.78
Christian Democrats Greg Tan 2,536 3.78 +3.78
One Nation Charles Doggett 2,400 3.48 +1.22
Deborah Locke 2,101 3.13 +3.13
Independent Mal Lees 1,393 2.08 +2.08
Ned Mannoun 1,076 1.60 +1.60
Independent Sam Bargshoon 753 1.12 -3.75
Progressive Labour Mary Patricia McGookin 629 0.94 +0.94
Mike Head 458 0.68 +0.04
Independent Marc Aussie-Stone 388 0.58 +0.58
Independent Robert Vogler 316 0.47 +0.47
Total formal votes 67,129 86.85 -5.17
Informal votes 10,162 13.15 +5.17
Turnout 77,291 85.19 -8.73
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Labor Chris Hayes 47,023 70.05 +10.74
Independent James Young 20,106 29.95 -10.74
Labor hold Swing +10.74
Australian federal election, 2004: Werriwa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mark Latham 40,837 52.64 +2.31
Liberal Michael Medway 27,241 35.11 +1.79
Independent Sam Bargshoon 3,779 4.87 +4.87
Greens Ben Raue 2,432 3.13 +0.48
One Nation Charles Doggett 1,831 2.36 -2.36
Democrats Patrick Briscoe-Hough 965 1.24 -1.40
Mike Head 497 0.64 +0.64
Total formal votes 77,582 92.02 +0.53
Informal votes 6,724 7.98 -0.53
Turnout 84,306 93.92 -0.05
Two Candidate Preferred Result
Labor Mark Latham 46,012 59.31 +0.82
Liberal Michael Medway 31,570 40.69 -0.82
Labor hold Swing +0.82

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