Division of Mackellar
| Mackellar Australian House of Representatives Division | |
|---|---|
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Division of Mackellar (green) in the Sydney metropolitan area | |
| Created | 1949 |
| MP | Bronwyn Bishop |
| Party | Liberal |
| Namesake |
Sir Charles Mackellar Dorothea Mackellar |
| Electors | 102,842 (2013)[1] |
| Area | 233 km2 (90.0 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Outer Metropolitan |
The Division of Mackellar is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division is named after Sir Charles Mackellar, a social reformer and surgeon who served in the Senate from October to November 1903, and his daughter Dorothea Mackellar, a 20th-century Australian poet. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 federal election.
The division is located in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, adjacent to the Tasman Sea, south of Broken Bay and the Hawkesbury River. The division includes the suburbs of Narrabeen, Beacon Hill, Newport, Palm Beach and Terrey Hills.
The division is a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia. It was first held by Bill Wentworth, the first Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and the great-grandson of politician and explorer William Wentworth, one of the first three Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains.
The current Member for Mackellar, since the 1994 Mackellar by-election, is Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop. Now on the backbench, Bishop served in the outer ministry of the Howard Government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Abbott Government from 2013 until Tony Smith was elected to replace her in August 2015.
Bishop will not contest the 2016 election with the Liberal Party preselecting Jason Falinski to contest the seat.[2][3]
Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Wentworth | Liberal | 1949–1977 | |
| Independent | 1977–1977 | ||
| Jim Carlton | Liberal | 1977–1994 | |
| Bronwyn Bishop | Liberal | 1994–present | |
Election results
| Australian federal election, 2013: Mackellar[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Bronwyn Bishop | 56,521 | 62.43 | +0.31 | |
| Labor | Chris Hedge | 15,606 | 17.24 | −3.86 | |
| Greens | Jonathan King | 12,843 | 14.19 | −2.58 | |
| Palmer United | Debra Drummond | 3,771 | 4.17 | +4.17 | |
| Christian Democrats | Silvana Nero | 1,791 | 1.98 | +1.98 | |
| Total formal votes | 90,532 | 94.25 | −0.55 | ||
| Informal votes | 5,525 | 5.75 | +0.55 | ||
| Turnout | 96,057 | 93.40 | +0.14 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Bronwyn Bishop | 62,322 | 68.84 | +3.12 | |
| Labor | Chris Hedge | 28,210 | 31.16 | −3.12 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.12 | |||
References
- 1 2 "NSW Division - Mackellar, NSW". Virtual Tally Room, Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ↑ Maiden, Samantha (16 April 2016). "Bronwyn Bishop’s battle for preselection for seat of Mackellar". Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ Dole, Nick (16 April 2016). "Bronwyn Bishop dumped as Liberal candidate for seat of Mackellar". ABC News. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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Coordinates: 33°40′08″S 151°15′11″E / 33.669°S 151.253°E