Division of Calare

Calare Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Calare (green) within New South Wales
Created	1906
MP	John Cobb
Party	The Nationals
Namesake	Lachlan River (Aboriginal name)
Electors	102,044 (2013)^[1]
Area	30,526 km² (11,786.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of Calare is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was first contested at the 1906 election; created to replace the abolished Division of Canobolas, and is named for the local Aboriginal name for the Lachlan River, which runs through the western part of the division. The name should be pronounced Kal-ah-ree, but the pronunciation Kul-air is established.

The division stretches from Forbes and Parkes in the west, to Orange, Bathurst, Lithgow and Oberon in the east.

The current Member for Calare, since the 2007 federal election, is John Cobb, a member of the The Nationals.

History

The division originally encompassed Forbes, Orange and Parkes. Subsequent boundary changes moved it eastwards to encompass Bathurst, Lithgow and Oberon. On these boundaries it was notionally a marginal seat between the Australian Labor Party (which held it 1983-96) and the National Party, but it was held comfortably by an independent, Peter Andren, from 1996 to 2007. Andren was not a candidate for the 2007 election: he intended to run for a Senate seat but was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and died during the election campaign.^[2]

A redistribution in 2006 moved the boundaries west to take in Cowra, Grenfell and the vast north-west of New South Wales from Brewarrina to Menindee, making Calare New South Wales's largest electorate. Lithgow, Bathurst and Oberon, which tend to favour Labor, were transferred to the neighbouring seat of Macquarie. At the 2007 federal election, Calare was won by the Nationals' representative John Cobb on a margin of 12.1 percent.^[3] Cobb had previously represented the Division of Parkes, parts of which were redistributed into Calare in 2006.

The 2009 redistribution of NSW moved the boundaries back east, to again include Lithgow, Bathurst and Oberon. Most of the northwestern area of the division was transferred to the neighbouring division of Parkes.^[4] The changes took effect at the 2010 election.

Members

	Party	Term
Thomas Brown	Labour	1906–1913
Henry Pigott	Commonwealth Liberal	1913–1917
Henry Pigott	Nationalist	1917–1919
Thomas Lavelle	Labor	1919–1922
Sir Neville Howse	Nationalist	1922–1929
George Gibbons	Labor	1929–1931
Harold Thorby	Country	1931–1940
John Breen	Labor	1940–1946
John Howse	Liberal	1946–1960
John England	Country	1960–1975
Sandy Mackenzie	National Country	1975–1982
Sandy Mackenzie	National	1982–1983
David Simmons	Labor	1983–1996
Peter Andren	Independent	1996–2007
John Cobb	National	2007–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Calare

Australian federal election, 2013: Calare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	John Cobb	52,650	57.65	+5.24
	Labor	Jess Jennings	23,185	25.39	−3.66
	Palmer United	Brian Cain	4,356	4.77	+4.77
	Greens	David Mallard	4,054	4.44	−1.56
	Independent	Macgregor Ross	2,388	2.61	+0.57
	Christian Democrats	Ian Lyons	1,628	1.78	−0.41
	Katter's Australian	Billie Kirkland	1,293	1.42	+1.42
	Australia First	Peter Schultze	1,010	1.11	+1.11
	Democratic Labour	Anthony Craig	759	0.83	+0.83
Total formal votes			91,323	93.89	−1.18
Informal votes			5,942	6.11	+1.18
Turnout			97,265	95.32	−0.02
Two-party-preferred result
	National	John Cobb	60,248	65.97	+5.23
	Labor	Jess Jennings	31,075	34.03	−5.23
	National hold		Swing	+5.23

References

1 2 "Calare, NSW". Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
↑ "Andren dies after four-month illness". ABC News (Australia). 2 November 2007.
↑ "Calare, NSW". Election 2007. Australian Electoral Commission. 2007.
↑ http://aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2009/nsw/announcement-maps/Calare-Parkes.jpg

External links

Division of Calare - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales

Banks Barton Bennelong Berowra Blaxland Bradfield Calare Charlton Chifley Cook Cowper Cunningham Dobell Eden-Monaro Farrer Fowler Gilmore Grayndler Greenway Hughes Hume Hunter Kingsford Smith Lindsay Lyne Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie McMahon Mitchell New England Newcastle North Sydney Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Shortland Sydney Throsby Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Abolished: Barrier Bland Canobolas Cook (1906–55) Dalley Darling Dundas East Sydney Evans Gwydir Illawarra Lang Lawson Lowe Martin Nepean Parkes (1901–69) Phillip Prospect Riverina-Darling St George South Sydney Watson (1934–69) West Sydney

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Coordinates: 33°18′22″S 148°55′19″E / 33.306°S 148.922°E / -33.306; 148.922

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