Division of Flinders

Division of Flinders
Flinders
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Flinders 2010.png
Division of Flinders (green) in Victoria
Created: 1900
MP: Greg Hunt
Party: Liberal
Namesake: Matthew Flinders
Area: 1,955 km² (755 sq mi)
Demographic: Rural

The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and the person credited with giving Australia her name.

Originally a country seat south and east of Melbourne, Flinders has been gradually cut back to the outer southern suburbs on the Mornington Peninsula, including Dromana, Hastings and Portsea.

It has usually been a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors, who have held it for all but six years since its creation. However, it has occasionally been won by the Australian Labor Party, notably in 1929 when Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was defeated. This was the first time an Australian Prime Minister has lost his own seat at a general election. (The only other such instance was the defeat of Liberal Prime Minister John Howard in his seat of Bennelong, also by Labor, in the 2007 federal election.)

Other prominent members include former Deputy Liberal leaders Sir Phillip Lynch and Peter Reith.

Members

Member Party Term
  Arthur Groom Free Trade 1901–1903
  James Gibb Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 1903–1906
  William Irvine Anti-Socialist 1906–1909
  Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916
  Nationalist 1916–1918
  Stanley Bruce Nationalist 1918–1929
  Jack Holloway Labor 1929–1931
  Stanley Bruce United Australia 1931–1933
  James Fairbairn United Australia 1933–1940
  Rupert Ryan United Australia 1940–1944
  Liberal 1944–1952
  Keith Ewert Labor 1952–1954
  Robert Lindsay Liberal 1954–1966
  Phillip Lynch Liberal 1966–1982
  Peter Reith Liberal 1982–1983
  Bob Chynoweth Labor 1983–1984
  Peter Reith Liberal 1984–2001
  Greg Hunt Liberal 2001–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2010: Flinders
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Greg Hunt 49,146 54.30 -0.17
Labor Francis Gagliano-Ventura 28,747 31.76 -2.12
Greens Robert Brown 10,410 11.50 +3.02
Family First Reade Smith 2,198 2.43 +0.19
Total formal votes 90,501 95.87 -1.35
Informal votes 3,895 4.13 +1.35
Turnout 94,396 93.58 -1.85
Two-candidate preferred result
Liberal Greg Hunt 53,499 59.11 +0.86
Labor Francis Gagliano-Ventura 37,002 40.89 -0.86
Liberal hold Swing +0.86

References

Coordinates: 38°20′46″S 145°19′26″E / 38.346°S 145.324°E / -38.346; 145.324


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