From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Division of Swan
Division of Swan
Swan Country Party seat. Prior to the 1949 election, its old area
Australian House of Representatives Division became the new seat of Moore, while Swan moved into
approximately its present position, although initially ex-
tending as far north-east as Midland.
From 2004 to 2007 it was the third most marginal
electorate in Australia, after Hindmarsh and Kingston,
with the ALP incumbent Kim Wilkie winning 50.08% of
the two-party-preferred vote in 2004.
In the 2007 election, Liberal candidate Steve Irons
won the seat with a swing of 0.19%.[1] Irons was the only
Coalition challenger to unseat a Labor incumbent in the
2007 election. He was reelected with a slightly increased
majority in 2010.
Members
Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Swan
2010:
Australian federal election, 2010 : Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Steve Irons 36,951 46.51 +2.76
Division of Swan (green) in Western Australia
Labor Tim Ham- 28,023 35.28 -5.69
Created: 1900 mond
MP: Steve Irons Greens Rebecca 9,380 11.81 +1.69
Party: Liberal Leighton
Namesake: Swan River Sex Party Bret Trea- 2,060 2.59 +2.59
Area: 126 km² (49 sq mi) sure
Demographic: Inner Metropolitan Christian De- Steve Klomp 1,646 2.07 +0.30
The Division of Swan is an Australian Electoral Division mocrats
located in Western Australia. The division is named after
Family First Barry Dren- 981 1.23 +0.38
the Swan River.
nan
For several decades, it has been a marginal seat, ex-
tending along the Swan and Canning Rivers from the af- Socialist Equal- Joe Lopez 398 0.50 +0.30
fluent suburbs in the City of South Perth to the west, ity
which typically vote for the Liberal Party, to the City of Total formal votes 79,439 95.10 -0.36
Belmont to the east and parts of the City of Canning to Informal votes 4,089 4.90 +0.36
the south-east, which are more working-class in orien-
Turnout 83,528 92.03 -0.97
tation and typically vote for the Labor Party. A redistri-
bution ahead of the 2010 election has added the strong- Two-candidate preferred result
ly Labor-voting suburb of Langford, which was previous- Liberal Steve Irons 41,729 52.53 +2.80
ly within Tangney, which has made it a notionally Labor Labor Tim Ham- 37,710 47.47 -2.80
seat. mond
The division was one of the original 75 divisions con-
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +2.80
tested at the first federal election. Historically, the elec-
torate was a country seat extending north to Dongara,
east to Merredin and south to the coast. It contracted
to an area east of the Darling Range and became a safe
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Division of Swan
Member Party Term
John Forrest Protectionist 1901–1909
Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916
Nationalist 1916–1918
Edwin Corboy Labor 1918–1919
John Prowse Country 1919–1922
Henry Gregory Country 1922–1940
Thomas Marwick Country 1940–1943
Independent Country 1943–1943
Donald Mountjoy Labor 1943–1946
Leonard Hamilton Country 1946–1949
Bill Grayden Liberal 1949–1954
Harry Webb Labor 1954–1955
Richard Cleaver Liberal 1955–1969
Adrian Bennett Labor 1969–1975
John Martyr Liberal 1975–1980
Kim Beazley Labor 1980–1996
Don Randall Liberal 1996–1998
Kim Wilkie Labor 1998–2007
Steve Irons Liberal 2007–present
References • Division of Swan - Australian Electoral Commission
Coordinates: 31°59′10″S 115°55′16″E / 31.986°S 115.921°E
[1] 2007 Federal Election results (Declared 12/12/07) / -31.986; 115.921
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