Division of Moreton

Moreton Australian House of Representatives Division
300px Division of Moreton (green) within Queensland
Created	1901
MP	Graham Perrett
Party	Labor
Namesake	Moreton Bay
Electors	94,288 (2013)
Area	111 km2 (42.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, though successive redistributions have resulted in it no longer bordering the bay; it is now completely landlocked. Nonetheless, it has retained the name of Moreton, mainly because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.

The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors for 86 years before Labor regained it in 1990. From then until 2013, it was a bellwether seat, voting for the winning party in every election.

The seat is known for having decided the 1961 federal election. The Liberals only won the seat by 130 votes to give the Coalition a bare one-seat majority; had 93 Communist preferences gone the other way, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.

On its current boundaries, the seat is very multicultural, with a significant Asian, South Eastern European and African population living in the electorate.

Boundaries

Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, Macgregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Yeronga, and Yeerongpilly, and parts of Algester, Berrinba, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Drewvale, Eight Mile Plains, Parkinson, Sherwood, and Tarragindi, Corinda.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	James Wilkinson	Independent Labour	1901–1904
		Labor	1904–1906
	Hugh Sinclair	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1919
	Arnold Wienholt	Nationalist	1919–1922
	Josiah Francis	Nationalist	1922–1931
		United Australia	1931–1944
		Liberal	1944–1955
	(Sir) James Killen	Liberal	1955–1983
	Donald Milner Cameron	Liberal	1983–1990
	Garrie Gibson	Labor	1990–1996
	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	1996–2007
	Graham Perrett	Labor	2007–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Moreton

Australian federal election, 2013: Moreton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Malcolm Cole	34,824	42.24	−1.16
	Labor	Graham Perrett	31,932	38.73	+2.72
	Greens	Elissa Jenkins	8,234	9.99	−5.90
	Palmer United	Jeremy Davey	4,147	5.03	+5.03
	Family First	Carolyn Ferrando	1,250	1.52	−1.92
	Katter's Australian	Chris Mallcott	1,070	1.30	+1.30
	Future	Hayden Muscat	481	0.58	+0.58
	Rise Up Australia	Bruce Fry	303	0.37	+0.37
	CEC	Wayne Grunert	208	0.25	+0.25
Total formal votes			82,449	94.38	−0.77
Informal votes			4,912	5.62	+0.77
Turnout			87,361	92.65	+0.78
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Graham Perrett	42,503	51.55	+0.42
	Liberal National	Malcolm Cole	39,946	48.45	−0.42
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.42

External links

• Division of Moreton (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission