| McMillan Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of McMillan (green) in Victoria |
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| Created: | 1949 |
| MP: | Russell Broadbent |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Namesake: | Angus McMillan |
| Electors: | 87,092 |
| Area: | 8,328 km² (3,215 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Rural |
The Division of McMillan is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the western part of the Gippsland region, which extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. It includes the outer south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, and also includes the towns of Warragul, Moe, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster. It stretches from Mount Baw Baw and the Baw Baw National Park in the north to Wilsons Promontory, and the Wilsons Promontory National Park in the south. It is the southernmost Electoral Division in continental Australia.
The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. It was named after Angus McMillan, one of the first Europeans to explore the Gippsland region. The Division is currently a marginal Liberal seat. The Division has changed hands five times in the last seven Federal elections. The change at the Australian federal election, 2004 was attributed to the redistribution of 29 January 2003, which removed the traditionally Labor-voting cities of Traralgon and Morwell from the Division.[1] Russell Broadbent held the seat again in the Australian federal election, 2007, making it the first time he has been re-elected.
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Members
Election results
| Australian federal election, 2007: McMillan | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Russell Broadbent | 40,254 | 49.93 | +7.00 | |
| Labor | Christine Maxfield | 30,743 | 38.14 | +0.28 | |
| Greens | Sandra Betts | 4,839 | 6.00 | +1.52 | |
| Family First | Terry Aeschlimann | 2,370 | 2.94 | +1.23 | |
| Democrats | Don Walters | 1,206 | 1.50 | +0.65 | |
| Democratic Labor | Suryan Chandrasegaran | 775 | 0.96 | +0.61 | |
| CEC | Theo Alblas | 287 | 0.36 | +0.19 | |
| Liberty and Democracy | Ben Fiechtner | 141 | 0.17 | +0.17 | |
| Total formal votes | 80,615 | 96.57 | +1.06 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,859 | 3.43 | -1.06 | ||
| Turnout | 83,474 | 95.85 | -0.04 | ||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Liberal | Russell Broadbent | 44,172 | 54.79 | -0.20 | |
| Labor | Christine Maxfield | 36,443 | 45.21 | +0.20 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.20 | |||
Notes
- ^ "Three times lucky for seasoned campaigner". The Age. 11 October 2004. http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/10/1097406425412.html.
External links
- "Division of McMillan" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. http://www.aec.gov.au/pdf/profiles/m/mcmillan.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-29. (PDF, 192 kB)
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