Division of Wentworth

Division of Wentworth
Wentworth
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wentworth 2010.png
Division of Wentworth (green) in New South Wales
Created: 1901
MP: Malcolm Turnbull
Party: Liberal
Namesake: William Wentworth
Area: 30 km² (12 sq mi)
Demographic: Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Wentworth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. 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 Australian Labor Party, though Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning the seat at 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. The seat is currently held by Liberal MP and former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

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Area

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.

Members

Member Party Term
  William McMillan Free Trade 1901–1903
  William Kelly Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 1903–1909
  Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916
  Nationalist 1916–1919
  Walter Marks Nationalist 1919–1929
  Independent 1929–1930
  Australian 1930–1931
  United Australia 1931–1931
  Eric Harrison United Australia 1931–1944
  Liberal 1944–1956
  Les Bury Liberal 1956–1974
  Robert Ellicott Liberal 1974–1981
  Peter Coleman Liberal 1981–1987
  John Hewson Liberal 1987–1995
  Andrew Thomson Liberal 1995–2001
  Peter King Liberal 2001–2004
  Independent 2004–2004
  Malcolm Turnbull Liberal 2004–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2010: Wentworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 51,634 59.57 +9.20
Labor Steven Lewis 18,265 21.07 -9.41
Greens Matthew Robertson 15,114 17.44 +2.48
Independent Pat Sheil 515 0.59 +0.29
Independent Malcolm Duncan 484 0.56 +0.56
Carers Alliance Stuart Neal 389 0.45 +0.45
Secular John August 275 0.32 +0.32
Total formal votes 86,676 95.50 +0.40
Informal votes 4,085 4.50 -0.40
Turnout 90,761 89.45 -3.08
Two-candidate preferred result
Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 56,219 64.86 +11.01
Labor Steven Lewis 30,457 35.14 -11.01
Liberal hold Swing +11.01

References

Coordinates: 33°52′59″S 151°15′11″E / 33.883°S 151.253°E / -33.883; 151.253


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