Brisbane Australian House of Representatives Division
Created:	1901
MP:	Arch Bevis
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Brisbane
Electors:	91,705
Area:	76 km² (29 sq mi)
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the city of Brisbane.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members 3 Election results 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Boundaries

On its original boundaries, Brisbane included all of what is now the northern part of the City of Brisbane, but successive boundary changes cut it back to the inner suburban area.

It now extends from the city centre into the western suburbs, and includes Alderley, Ashgrove, Bowen Hills, Brisbane City, Enoggera, Ferny Grove, Fortitude Valley, Gaythorne, Grange, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Keperra, Milton, Mitchelton, New Farm, Newmarket, Newstead, Red Hill, Spring Hill, Upper Kedron, Wilston, and Windsor, and parts of Bardon, Everton Park, Paddington, and Stafford.

[edit] Members

For most of its history it has been a fairly safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, but the Liberal Party won it in 1975 and 1977. It was Labor's most vulnerable seat at the 2004 election, but the sitting member, Arch Bevis, gained a substantial swing and has made the seat fairly secure^[1]. This may have been influenced by the controversy over Family First preferences, where Liberal candidate Ingrid Tall was denied Family First preferences as an out Lesbian^[2].

Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Macdonald-Paterson	Protectionist	1901–1903
		Independent	1903–1903
	Millice Culpin	Labor	1903–1906
	Justin Foxton	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	William Finlayson	Labor	1910–1919
	Donald Charles Cameron	Nationalist	1919–1931
	George Lawson	Labor	1931–1961
	Manfred Cross	Labor	1961–1975
	Peter Johnson	Liberal	1975–1980
	Manfred Cross	Labor	1980–1990
	Arch Bevis	Labor	1990–present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Brisbane
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arch Bevis	37,715	45.04	+2.58
	Liberal	Ted O'Brien	32,989	39.40	-0.58
	Greens	Elizabeth Guthrie	9,882	11.80	+2.47
	Democrats	Don Sinnamon	1,226	1.51	-0.10
	Family First	Mark White	1,183	1.41	-0.94
	Socialist Alliance	Ewan Saunders	556	0.68	+0.28
	CEC	Nick Contarino	137	0.16	+0.06
Total formal votes			83,738	97.04	+1.27
Informal votes			2,554	2.96	-1.27
Turnout			86,292	94.10	+0.44
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Arch Bevis	47,526	56.76	+2.82
	Liberal	Ted O'Brien	36,212	43.24	-2.82
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.82

Australian federal election, 2004: Brisbane
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Arch Bevis	33,687	42.47	+4.83
	Liberal	Ingrid Tall	31,721	39.99	-1.22
	Greens	Richard Nielsen	7,349	9.26	+2.70
	National	Nick Withycombe	2,242	2.83	+1.01
	Family First	Charles Newington	1,899	2.39	+2.39
	Democrats	Tracy Schrader	1,269	1.60	-7.07
	Independent	J F Barnes	767	0.97	+0.97
	Socialist Alliance	Coral Wynter	313	0.39	+0.39
	CEC	Nick Contarino	76	0.10	+0.10
Total formal votes			79,323	95.78	-0.48
Informal votes			3,495	4.22	+0.48
Turnout			82,818	92.40	-1.18
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Arch Bevis	42,759	53.90	+2.87
	Liberal	Ingrid Tall	36,564	46.10	-2.87
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.87

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Division of Brisbane description
• Division of Brisbane map

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