| Robertson Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Robertson (green) in New South Wales |
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| Created: | 1901 |
| MP: | Belinda Neal |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | John Robertson |
| Electors: | 94,334 |
| Area: | 721 km² (278 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Provincial |
The Division of Robertson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located on the Central Coast, immediately north of the Hawkesbury River. It encompasses the towns of Woy Woy, Gosford and Terrigal.
The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after Sir John Robertson, fifth Premier of New South Wales.
In the 2007 federal election, the Division was contested by the incumbent Jim Lloyd, the former federal Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, and the Labor candidate Belinda Neal, who unsuccessfully contested the seat in the 1998 federal election after resigning from the Senate. The election results in Robertson were very close, and the two-candidate preferred vote stood only 237 votes apart (42,562 votes for Lloyd and 42,799 votes for Neal) after a week's counting. Belinda Neal claimed victory on December 5 with 95% of the votes counted and 50.1% of the two-party preferred vote.[1]
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Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Henry Willis | Free Trade, Anti-Socialist | 1901–1909 | |
| Commonwealth Liberal | 1909–1910 | ||
| William Johnson | Labor | 1910–1913 | |
| William Fleming | Commonwealth Liberal | 1913–1916 | |
| Nationalist | 1916–1921 | ||
| Country | 1921–1922 | ||
| Sydney Gardner | Nationalist | 1922–1931 | |
| United Australia | 1931–1940 | ||
| Eric Spooner | United Australia | 1940–1943 | |
| Thomas Williams | Labor | 1943–1949 | |
| Roger Dean | Liberal | 1949–1964 | |
| William Bridges-Maxwell | Liberal | 1964–1969 | |
| Barry Cohen | Labor | 1969–1990 | |
| Frank Walker | Labor | 1990–1996 | |
| Jim Lloyd | Liberal | 1996–2007 | |
| Belinda Neal | Labor | 2007–present | |
Election results
| Australian federal election, 2007: Robertson | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Jim Lloyd | 39,792 | 45.63 | -7.83 | |
| Labor | Belinda Neal | 37,437 | 42.93 | +8.29 | |
| Greens | Mira Wroblewski | 6,279 | 7.20 | -0.65 | |
| Christian Democrats | George Grant | 1,929 | 2.21 | +2.21 | |
| One Nation | Helen Ryan | 924 | 1.06 | -0.66 | |
| Family First | Daniel Le | 708 | 0.81 | -0.91 | |
| CEC | Nicholas Tomlin | 141 | 0.16 | -0.11 | |
| Total formal votes | 87,210 | 96.56 | +1.09 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,109 | 3.44 | -1.09 | ||
| Turnout | 90,319 | 95.74 | +0.11 | ||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Labor | Belinda Neal | 43,697 | 50.11 | +6.98 | |
| Liberal | Jim Lloyd | 43,513 | 49.89 | -6.98 | |
| Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.98 | |||
References
- Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive
- The Poll Bludger
- ABC Elections
- Australian Electoral Commission
- ^ "Labor takes seat of Robertson". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2007-12-05. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/05/2110786.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
External links
- "Division of Robertson". Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. http://www.aec.gov.au/pdf/profiles/r/robertson.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-29. (PDF, 180 kB)
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