Division of Wentworth

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For the New South Wales state electorate, see Electoral district of Wentworth.

Wentworth Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wentworth in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Malcolm Turnbull
Party	Liberal
Namesake	William Wentworth
Electors	102,811 (2016)
Area	38 km² (14.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

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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 federation divisions contested at the first federal election. The division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), an Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompanied Blaxland and Lawson on their crossing of the Blue Mountains.

Wentworth is the second-smallest geographical electoral division in the Parliament with an area of just 38 square kilometres (15 sq mi), covering Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly—an area largely coextensive with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. The western boundary runs along Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Dowling Street, then eastward along Alison Road to Randwick Racecourse and Clovelly Beach. It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Ben Buckler, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Centennial Park, Darling Point, Double Bay, Dover Heights, Edgecliff, Moore Park, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Queens Park, Rose Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Tamarama, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley, and Woollahra; as well as parts of Clovelly, Darlinghurst, East Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Potts Point, and Randwick.

Considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia, Wentworth is one of only two original federation divisions in New South Wales, along with the Division of North Sydney, which has never been held by the Australian Labor Party, though Labor candidate Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning Wentworth at the 1943 election landslide. According to the census, the seat covers some of the wealthiest suburbs in Australia and has the highest proportion of high income families of all seats in Australia, with the Division of North Sydney coming second.^[1]^[2]

The current member since the 2004 election is Liberal Malcolm Turnbull who has served as Prime Minister of Australia since the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot. Both Turnbull and a previous member John Hewson had been Opposition Leaders, with both becoming Opposition Leaders in their respective second terms as members for Wentworth.

During the 2016 election campaign, a ReachTEL opinion poll of 626 Wentworth voters conducted on 31 May predicted a two-party swing against the Liberals' Turnbull for the first time since his election to Wentworth—revealing a reduced 58 percent two-party vote from a large 10.9 percent two-party swing.^[3]

Members

	Party	Term
Sir William McMillan	Free Trade	1901–1903
Willie Kelly	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1903–1909
	Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1917
	Nationalist	1917–1919
Walter Marks	Nationalist	1919–1929
	Independent	1929–1930
	Australian	1930–1931
	United Australia	1931
Sir Eric Harrison	United Australia	1931–1944
Sir Eric Harrison	Liberal	1944–1956
Les Bury	Liberal	1956–1974
Bob Ellicott	Liberal	1974–1981
Peter Coleman	Liberal	1981–1987
John Hewson	Liberal	1987–1995
Andrew Thomson	Liberal	1995–2001
Peter King	Liberal	2001–2004
Peter King	Independent	2004
Malcolm Turnbull	Liberal	2004–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Wentworth

Australian federal election, 2016: Wentworth^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Malcolm Turnbull	52,353	62.26	−2.35
	Labor	Evan Hughes	14,913	17.73	−0.98
	Greens	Dejay Toborek	12,496	14.86	+0.84
	Arts	Anthony Ackroyd	1,478	1.76	+1.76
	Science	Peter Xing	988	1.17	+1.17
	Christian Democrats	Beresford Thomas	901	1.07	+0.62
	Independent	David Allen	573	0.68	+0.68
	Independent	Marc Aussie-Stone	390	0.46	+0.46
Total formal votes			84,092	94.87	+0.60
Informal votes			4,549	5.13	−0.60
Turnout			88,641	86.22	−3.78
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Malcolm Turnbull	56,971	67.75	−1.17
	Labor	Evan Hughes	27,121	32.25	+1.17
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.17

References

↑ Wentworth profile, 2013 election: Antony Green ABC
↑ 2015 North Sydney by-election: Antony Green ABC
↑ Malcolm Turnbull facing 10% swing in Wentworth as his popularity plummets: SMH 5 June 2016
↑ Wentworth, NSW, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Wentworth – Australian Electoral Commission

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

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Coordinates: 33°52′59″S 151°15′11″E / 33.883°S 151.253°E / -33.883; 151.253

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