Division of Denison

Division of Denison
Denison
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Denison 2010.png
Division of Denison (green) in Tasmania
Created: 1903
MP: Andrew Wilkie
Party: Independent
Namesake: William Denison
Area: 288 km² (111 sq mi)
Demographic: Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Denison is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lt-Governor of Van Diemens Land 1847-55. It is located in central Hobart, today including the suburbs of Glenorchy, New Town and Taroona.

Denison has been a consistently marginal seat, but was held by the Australian Labor Party between 1987 and 2010 with little difficulty. Its most prominent members have been Sir Philip Fysh, a member of the first federal Cabinet, and Athol Townley, Defence Minister in the Robert Menzies government. Townley resigned in 1964 when he was named Ambassador to the United States, but he died before taking up the appointment. Another prominent member is the incumbent independent MP Andrew Wilkie, elected at the 2010 election. In 2003 Wilkie resigned from his position in the Office of National Assessments (ONA), an Australian intelligence agency, over concerns that intelligence was being misrepresented for political purposes in making the case for Australia's contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq under the Howard government. Denison has had 16 different members, the most of any federal electorate.

Members

Member Party Term
  Philip Fysh Protectionist 19031906
  Anti-Socialist 19061909
  Commonwealth Liberal 19091910
  William Laird Smith Labor 19101916
  Nationalist 19161922
  David O'Keefe Labor 19221925
  John Gellibrand Nationalist 19251928
  Charles Culley Labor 19281931
  Arthur Hutchin United Australia 19311934
  Gerald Mahoney Labor 19341940
  Arthur Beck United Australia 19401943
  John Gaha Labor 19431949
  Athol Townley Liberal 19491964
  Adrian Gibson Liberal 19641969
  Robert Solomon Liberal 19691972
  John Coates Labor 19721975
  Michael Hodgman Liberal 19751987
  Duncan Kerr Labor 19872010
  Andrew Wilkie Independent 2010present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2010: Denison
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jonathan Jackson 23,215 35.79 -12.37
Liberal Cameron Simpkins 14,688 22.65 -7.34
Independent Andrew Wilkie 13,788 21.26 +21.26
Greens Geoffrey Couser 12,312 18.98 +0.40
Socialist Alliance Mel Barnes 856 1.32 +0.56
Total formal votes 64,859 96.38 -1.12
Informal votes 2,435 3.62 +1.12
Turnout 67,294 94.32 -1.21
Two-candidate preferred result
Independent Andrew Wilkie 33,217 51.21 +51.21
Labor Jonathan Jackson 31,642 48.79 -16.50
Independent gain from Labor Swing +51.21

References

Coordinates: 42°5317S 147°1438E / 42.888°S 147.244°E / -42.888; 147.244


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