Division of Brisbane
This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For other uses, see Electoral district of Brisbane.
| Brisbane Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Brisbane (green) within Queensland |
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| Created: | 1900 |
| MP: | Teresa Gambaro |
| Party: | Liberal National |
| Namesake: | Brisbane |
| Area: | 58 km² (22 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the city of Brisbane.
Boundaries
On its original boundaries, Brisbane included all of what is now the northern part of the City of Brisbane, but successive boundary changes cut it back to the inner suburban area.
It now extends from the city centre into the western suburbs, and includes Alderley, Ashgrove, Bowen Hills, Brisbane City, Enoggera, Ferny Grove, Fortitude Valley, Gaythorne, Grange, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Keperra, Milton, Mitchelton, New Farm, Newmarket, Newstead, Red Hill, Spring Hill, Upper Kedron, Wilston, and Windsor, and parts of Bardon, Everton Park, Paddington, and Stafford.
In the 2009 Electoral Boundaries redistribution announced by the Australian Electoral Commission the seat of Brisbane also includes the suburbs of Hendra, Ascot and Hamilton.
Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Thomas Macdonald-Paterson | Protectionist | 1901–1903 | |
| Independent | 1903–1903 | ||
| Millice Culpin | Labor | 1903–1906 | |
| Justin Foxton | Anti-Socialist | 1906–1909 | |
| Commonwealth Liberal | 1909–1910 | ||
| William Finlayson | Labor | 1910–1919 | |
| Donald Charles Cameron | Nationalist | 1919–1931 | |
| George Lawson | Labor | 1931–1961 | |
| Manfred Cross | Labor | 1961–1975 | |
| Peter Johnson | Liberal | 1975–1980 | |
| Manfred Cross | Labor | 1980–1990 | |
| Arch Bevis | Labor | 1990–2010 | |
| Teresa Gambaro | Liberal National | 2010–present |
Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Brisbane
| Australian federal election, 2010: Brisbane | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal National | Teresa Gambaro | 37,191 | 45.89 | +4.08 | |
| Labor | Arch Bevis | 24,623 | 30.38 | -13.22 | |
| Greens | Andrew Bartlett | 17,244 | 21.28 | +10.12 | |
| Family First | Mark White | 1,274 | 1.57 | +0.44 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Ewan Saunders | 717 | 0.88 | +0.36 | |
| Total formal votes | 81,049 | 96.24 | -0.88 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,169 | 3.76 | +0.88 | ||
| Turnout | 84,218 | 91.32 | -3.89 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Teresa Gambaro | 41,440 | 51.13 | +5.73 | |
| Labor | Arch Bevis | 39,609 | 48.87 | -5.73 | |
| Liberal National gain from Labor | Swing | +5.73 |
References
| v · d · eElectoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland |
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| Divisions in: New South Wales · Victoria · Queensland · Western Australia · South Australia · Tasmania · Australian Capital and Northern Territories |