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Tangney
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Tangney (green) in Western AustraliaCreated: 1974 MP: Dennis Jensen Party: Liberal Namesake: Dorothy Tangney Area: 96 km² (37 sq mi) Demographic: Inner Metropolitan The Division of Tangney is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. Eligible voters within the Division elect a single representative, known as the member for Tangney, to the Australian House of Representatives. The Division was named after Dame Dorothy Tangney, the first female member of the Australian Senate, and is at present a safe Liberal seat held by Dr Dennis Jensen, a physicist and defence analyst, since the retirement of high-profile former Attorney General Daryl Williams at the 2004 federal election.
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History
Tangney was established at the 19 April 1974 redistribution and was first contested at the 1974 federal election. Until the 1984 redistribution, the seat included a much wider area including the traditional Labor areas of Spearwood and Gosnells, and the seat was a bellwether seat represented by the party of government. In 1984, the seat was confined to its present borders and has been held by the Liberal Party ever since.
It was first held by John Dawkins, later a Treasurer of Australia (as Member for Fremantle), and was held from 1993 until 2004 by Daryl Williams, former Attorney-General of Australia and Rhodes Scholar.[1]
The seat briefly made national headlines in August 2006 when Matt Brown, once a chief-of-staff to former Defence Minister Robert Hill, defeated incumbent MP Dr Dennis Jensen for preselection, despite support for the latter from John Howard. However, on 7 October 2006, the decision was overturned by the Liberals' Western Australian state council and Jensen was once again confirmed as the candidate for the 2007 election.[2]
Geography
The seat presently contains most of the City of Melville and a considerable portion of the City of Canning and is located south of the Swan and Canning rivers. Suburbs presently included are:
- Alfred Cove
- Applecross
- Ardross
- Attadale
- Bateman
- Booragoon
- Brentwood
- Bull Creek
- Kardinya (east of North Lake Road)
- Leeming
- Melville
- Mount Pleasant
- Murdoch (including Murdoch University)
- Myaree
- Winthrop
Members
Member Party Term John Dawkins Labor 1974–1975 Peter Richardson Liberal 1975–1977 Progress 1977–1977 Peter Shack Liberal 1977–1983 George Gear Labor 1983–1984 Peter Shack Liberal 1984–1993 Daryl Williams Liberal 1993–2004 Dennis Jensen Liberal 2004–present Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of TangneyAustralian federal election, 2010: Tangney Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Dennis Jensen 46,712 55.69 +3.31 Labor David Doepel 21,637 25.80 -5.73 Greens Peter Best 11,311 13.49 +5.20 Christian Democrats Ka-ren Chew 2,814 3.36 +1.01 Family First Moyna Rapp 1,399 1.67 +0.53 Total formal votes 83,873 96.52 -0.83 Informal votes 3,028 3.48 +0.83 Turnout 86,901 94.28 -0.80 Two-candidate preferred result Liberal Dennis Jensen 52,266 62.32 +2.51 Labor David Doepel 31,607 37.68 -2.51 Liberal hold Swing +2.51 References
Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Western Australia Divisions in: New South Wales · Victoria · Queensland · Western Australia · South Australia · Tasmania · Australian Capital and Northern TerritoriesCategories:- Federal politics in Western Australia
- Electoral divisions of Australia
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