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Wentworth
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wentworth (green) in New South WalesCreated: 1901 MP: Malcolm Turnbull Party: Liberal Namesake: William Wentworth Area: 30 km² (12 sq mi) Demographic: Inner Metropolitan The Division of Wentworth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The Division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), a noted Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompanied Blaxland and Lawson on their crossing of the Blue Mountains. It is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with North Sydney, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party, though Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning the seat at the 1943 election. It was considered a blue-ribbon Liberal seat, and according the census, has the highest per-capita income of all seats in Australia. The seat is currently held by Liberal MP and former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.
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Area
Wentworth covers an area of approximately 29 km² from Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly. The western boundary runs along Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Downling Street, then eastward along Alison Road to Randwick Racecourse and Clovelly Beach. The Division of Wentworth is the division with the smallest geographical area in Australia.
It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Clovelly, Darling Point, Dover Heights, Double Bay, Edgecliff, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Queens Park, Randwick, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley and Woollahra.
The electoral redistribution in 2005 added the suburbs of Centennial Park, Darlinghurst, East Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Potts Point and Woolloomooloo while reducing the area of Randwick included in the division.
Members
Member Party Term William McMillan Free Trade 1901–1903 William Kelly Free Trade, Anti-Socialist 1903–1909 Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916 Nationalist 1916–1919 Walter Marks Nationalist 1919–1929 Independent 1929–1930 Australian 1930–1931 United Australia 1931–1931 Eric Harrison United Australia 1931–1944 Liberal 1944–1956 Les Bury Liberal 1956–1974 Robert Ellicott Liberal 1974–1981 Peter Coleman Liberal 1981–1987 John Hewson Liberal 1987–1995 Andrew Thomson Liberal 1995–2001 Peter King Liberal 2001–2004 Independent 2004–2004 Malcolm Turnbull Liberal 2004–present Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of WentworthAustralian federal election, 2010: Wentworth Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 51,634 59.57 +9.20 Labor Steven Lewis 18,265 21.07 -9.41 Greens Matthew Robertson 15,114 17.44 +2.48 Independent Pat Sheil 515 0.59 +0.29 Independent Malcolm Duncan 484 0.56 +0.56 Carers Alliance Stuart Neal 389 0.45 +0.45 Secular John August 275 0.32 +0.32 Total formal votes 86,676 95.50 +0.40 Informal votes 4,085 4.50 -0.40 Turnout 90,761 89.45 -3.08 Two-candidate preferred result Liberal Malcolm Turnbull 56,219 64.86 +11.01 Labor Steven Lewis 30,457 35.14 -11.01 Liberal hold Swing +11.01 References
Categories:- Electoral divisions of Australia
- Australian electorates contested at every election
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