Division of Chisholm

Chisholm Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Chisholm in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1949
MP	Julia Banks
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Caroline Chisholm
Electors	97,434 (2016)
Area	65 km² (25.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Chisholm is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Caroline Chisholm, a social worker and promoter of women's immigration. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and includes the suburbs of Ashwood, Blackburn South, Box Hill, Burwood, Chadstone, Huntingdale, Mont Albert, Mount Waverley, and parts of Clayton, Forest Hill, Oakleigh and Surrey Hills.

On its original boundaries, it was a comfortably safe Liberal seat centered on Camberwell. However, successive redistributions from 1980 onward have moved the electorate south-east, taking in strongly Labor-voting suburbs to balance out the relatively affluent Liberal-leaning suburbs in the north of the seat, and making the seat marginal. The first member for Chisholm, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, was one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers, who held the seat until his death on 31 July 1970.

Despite Chisholm being won by Labor from the 1998 election onward, the Liberals won the seat at the 2016 election − the only seat to result in a Liberal gain from Labor at that election.

Members

	Party	Term
(Sir) Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Liberal	1949–1970
Tony Staley	Liberal	1970–1980
Graham Harris	Liberal	1980–1983
Helen Mayer	Labor	1983–1987
Michael Wooldridge	Liberal	1987–1998
Anna Burke	Labor	1998–2016
Julia Banks	Liberal	2016–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Chisholm

Australian federal election, 2016: Chisholm^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Julia Banks	39,265	45.28	+1.16
	Labor	Stefanie Perri	31,160	35.93	−3.57
	Greens	Josh Fergeus	10,647	12.28	+2.83
	Family First	Craig McCracken	2,137	2.46	+1.36
	Animal Justice	Nyree Walshe	1,799	2.07	+2.07
	Rise Up Australia	Melanie Vassiliou	1,712	1.97	+1.22
Total formal votes			86,720	97.26	+1.49
Informal votes			2,439	2.74	−1.49
Turnout			89,159	91.51	−1.84
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Julia Banks	44,437	51.24	+2.84
	Labor	Stefanie Perri	42,283	48.76	−2.84
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+2.84

References

↑ Chisholm, VIC, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Chisholm - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

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Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Coordinates: 37°51′54″S 145°07′23″E / 37.865°S 145.123°E / -37.865; 145.123

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