Division of Wentworth
The Federal Division of Wentworth is a foundation division of the Australian Parliament, created at the Federation of the Australian Colonies as the Commonwealth of Australia. 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, along with North Sydney, which have never been held by the ALP, though Jessie Street came close in 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.
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
Election results
| Australian federal election, 2004: Wentworth | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Malcolm Turnbull | 30,771 | 41.79 | -10.29 | |
| Labor | David Patch | 19,391 | 26.34 | -3.18 | |
| Independent | Peter King | 13,236 | 17.98 | +17.98 | |
| Greens | Mithra Cox | 8,210 | 11.15 | +1.38 | |
| Democrats | Lindy Morrison | 683 | 0.93 | -5.22 | |
| Independent | Robert Vogler | 339 | 0.46 | +0.46 | |
| Family First | Leonie Hull | 301 | 0.41 | +0.41 | |
| Fishing Party | Victor Shen | 239 | 0.32 | +0.32 | |
| Independent | Pat Sheil | 218 | 0.30 | +0.30 | |
| No GST | Brian Buckley | 171 | 0.23 | +0.23 | |
| Citizens Electoral Council | John Jamieson | 65 | 0.09 | +0.09 | |
| Total formal votes | 73,624 | 93.82 | -1.33 | ||
| Informal votes | 4,853 | 6.18 | +1.33 | ||
| Turnout | 78,477 | 92.34 | +0.61 | ||
| 2-Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| Liberal | Malcolm Turnbull | 40,847 | 55.48 | -2.38 | |
| Labor | David Patch | 32,777 | 44.52 | +2.38 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | -2.38 | |||
Electoral prospects
The seat is currently marginal, and its current member, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, will be challenged by the former Labor Mayor of Waverley, George Newhouse. The flow of preferences from the Greens candidate, Susan Jarnason, among others, is likely to determine the result.
References
External links
- Division of Wentworth. Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. (PDF, 175 kB)
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