| Higgins Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Higgins (green) in Victoria |
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| Created: | 1949 |
| MP: | Kelly O'Dwyer |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Namesake: | H. B. Higgins |
| Electors: | 89,333 |
| Area: | 39 km² (15 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), Victorian MLA (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), Australian MP 1906–1929, and justice of the High Court of Australia.
It includes affluent inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, such as Armadale, Ashburton, Malvern, and Toorak, as well as parts of Glen Iris, Camberwell, Prahran, and South Yarra. It has always been a safe seat for the Liberal Party. Its first two members, Harold Holt and John Gorton, were Liberal Prime Ministers. Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers, which occurred when Holt went missing while PM, and then-Senator Gorton was named as his replacement.
Its current member is Kelly O'Dwyer who was elected at the 2009 Higgins by-election to replace outgoing member Peter Costello, who was Treasurer of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the Howard Government.
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Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Harold Holt | Liberal | 1949–1967 | |
| John Gorton | Liberal | 1968–1975 | |
| Independent | 1975–1975 | ||
| Roger Shipton | Liberal | 1975–1990 | |
| Peter Costello | Liberal | 1990–2009 | |
| Kelly O'Dwyer | Liberal | 2009–present | |
Election results
| Higgins by-election, 2009[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Kelly O'Dwyer | 36,393 | 54.55 | +0.94 | |
| Greens | Clive Hamilton | 21,617 | 32.40 | +21.65 | |
| Democratic Labor | John Mulholland | 2,570 | 3.85 | +3.85 | |
| Sex Party | Fiona Patten | 2,140 | 3.21 | +3.21 | |
| Democrats | David Collyer | 1,533 | 2.30 | +1.09 | |
| Independent | Stephen Murphy | 1,143 | 1.71 | +1.71 | |
| Independent | Joseph Toscano | 526 | 0.79 | +0.79 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Isaac Roberts | 337 | 0.51 | +0.51 | |
| Independent | Peter Brohier | 237 | 0.36 | +0.36 | |
| One Nation | Steve Raskovy | 214 | 0.32 | +0.32 | |
| Total formal votes | 66,710 | 95.88 | −1.55 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,870 | 4.12 | +1.55 | ||
| Turnout | 69,580 | 78.93 | −14.84 | ||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Liberal | Kelly O'Dwyer | 40,179 | 60.23 | +3.19 | |
| Greens | Clive Hamilton | 26,531 | 39.77 | +39.77 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Australian federal election, 2007: Higgins | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Peter Costello | 43,761 | 53.61 | -1.69 | |
| Labor | Barbara Norman | 25,367 | 31.08 | +0.58 | |
| Greens | Michael Wilbur-Ham | 8,777 | 10.75 | -0.60 | |
| Independent | Stephen Mayne | 1,615 | 1.98 | +1.98 | |
| Democrats | Mary Dettman | 990 | 1.21 | -0.61 | |
| Family First | Penny Badwal | 627 | 0.77 | -0.06 | |
| Independent | Graeme Meddings | 227 | 0.28 | +0.28 | |
| Total formal votes | 81,629 | 97.43 | +0.19 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,150 | 2.57 | -0.19 | ||
| Turnout | 83,779 | 93.78 | +0.81 | ||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Liberal | Peter Costello | 46,559 | 57.04 | -1.72 | |
| Labor | Barbara Norman | 35,070 | 42.96 | +1.72 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | -1.72 | |||
References
External links
- COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL DIVISION OF HIGGINS Map of division of Higgins in PDF format
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