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Swan
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Swan (green) in Western AustraliaCreated: 1900 MP: Steve Irons Party: Liberal Namesake: Swan River Area: 126 km² (49 sq mi) Demographic: Inner Metropolitan The Division of Swan is an Australian Electoral Division located in Western Australia. The division is named after the Swan River.
For several decades, it has been a marginal seat, extending along the Swan and Canning Rivers from the affluent suburbs in the City of South Perth to the west, which typically vote for the Liberal Party, to the City of Belmont to the east and parts of the City of Canning to the south-east, which are more working-class in orientation and typically vote for the Labor Party. A redistribution ahead of the 2010 election has added the strongly Labor-voting suburb of Langford, which was previously within Tangney, which has made it a notionally Labor seat.
The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. Historically, the electorate was a country seat extending north to Dongara, east to Merredin and south to the coast. It contracted to an area east of the Darling Range and became a safe Country Party seat. Prior to the 1949 election, its old area became the new seat of Moore, while Swan moved into approximately its present position, although initially extending as far north-east as Midland.
From 2004 to 2007 it was the third most marginal electorate in Australia, after Hindmarsh and Kingston, with the ALP incumbent Kim Wilkie winning 50.08% of the two-party-preferred vote in 2004.
In the 2007 election, Liberal candidate Steve Irons won the seat with a swing of 0.19%.[1]
Members
Member Party Term John Forrest Protectionist 1901–1909 Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916 Nationalist 1916–1918 Edwin Corboy Labor 1918–1919 John Prowse Country 1919–1922 Henry Gregory Country 1922–1940 Thomas Marwick Country 1940–1943 Independent Country 1943–1943 Donald Mountjoy Labor 1943–1946 Leonard Hamilton Country 1946–1949 Bill Grayden Liberal 1949–1954 Harry Webb Labor 1954–1955 Richard Cleaver Liberal 1955–1969 Adrian Bennett Labor 1969–1975 John Martyr Liberal 1975–1980 Kim Beazley Labor 1980–1996 Don Randall Liberal 1996–1998 Kim Wilkie Labor 1998–2007 Steve Irons Liberal 2007–present Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of SwanAustralian federal election, 2010: Swan Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Steve Irons 36,951 46.51 +2.76 Labor Tim Hammond 28,023 35.28 -5.69 Greens Rebecca Leighton 9,380 11.81 +1.69 Sex Party Bret Treasure 2,060 2.59 +2.59 Christian Democrats Steve Klomp 1,646 2.07 +0.30 Family First Barry Drennan 981 1.23 +0.38 Socialist Equality Joe Lopez 398 0.50 +0.30 Total formal votes 79,439 95.10 -0.36 Informal votes 4,089 4.90 +0.36 Turnout 83,528 92.03 -0.97 Two-candidate preferred result Liberal Steve Irons 41,729 52.53 +2.80 Labor Tim Hammond 37,710 47.47 -2.80 Liberal gain from Labor Swing +2.80 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 Territories Categories:- Electoral divisions of Australia
- Australian electorates contested at every election
- Federal politics in Western Australia
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