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This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For Tasmanian state electorate, see Division of Denison (state).

Denison Australian House of Representatives Division
Denison, shown within Tasmania
Created:	1903
MP:	Duncan Kerr
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	William Denison
Electors:	68,881
Area:	288 km² (111 sq mi)
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Denison is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lt-Governor of Van Diemens Land 1847-55. It is located in central Hobart, today including the suburbs of Glenorchy, New Town and Taroona. It has been a consistently marginal seat, but has been held by the Australian Labor Party with little difficulty since 1987. Its most prominent members have been Sir Philip Fysh, a member of the first federal Cabinet, and Athol Townley, Defence Minister in the Robert Menzies government. Townley resigned in 1964 when he was named Ambassador to the United States, but he died before taking up the appointment.

[edit] Members

	Party	Term
Philip Fysh	Protectionist	1903–1906
	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
	Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
William Laird Smith	Labor	1910–1916
William Laird Smith	Nationalist	1916–1922
David O'Keefe	Labor	1922–1925
John Gellibrand	Nationalist	1925–1928
Charles Culley	Labor	1928–1931
Arthur Hutchin	United Australia	1931–1934
Gerald Mahoney	Labor	1934–1940
Arthur Beck	United Australia	1940–1943
John Gaha	Labor	1943–1949
Athol Townley	Liberal	1949–1964
Adrian Gibson	Liberal	1964–1969
Robert Solomon	Liberal	1969–1972
John Coates	Labor	1972–1975
Michael Hodgman	Liberal	1975–1987
Duncan Kerr	Labor	1987–present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Denison
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Duncan Kerr	31,001	48.46	-1.05
	Liberal	Leigh Gray	18,974	29.66	-2.90
	Greens	Helen Hutchinson	11,898	18.60	+4.00
	Family First	Robyn Munro	1,360	2.13	-0.34
	Socialist Alliance	Susan Austin	494	0.77	-0.08
	CEC	Rob Larner	243	0.38	+0.38
Total formal votes			63,970	97.50	+0.61
Informal votes			1,640	2.50	-0.61
Turnout			65,610	95.25	-0.02
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Duncan Kerr	41,982	65.63	+2.34
	Liberal	Leigh Gray	21,988	34.37	-2.34
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.34

Australian federal election, 2004: Denison
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Duncan Kerr	31,602	49.51	-1.87
	Liberal	Erick Pastoor	20,782	32.56	+0.97
	Greens	Helen Burnet	9,318	14.60	+4.15
	Family First	Gino Papiccio	1,578	2.47	+2.47
	Socialist Alliance	Kamala Emanuel	544	0.85	+0.85
Total formal votes			63,824	96.90	-0.19
Informal votes			2,045	3.10	+0.19
Turnout			65,869	95.26	-0.36
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Duncan Kerr	40,397	63.29	-0.97
	Liberal	Erick Pastoor	23,427	36.71	+0.97
	Labor hold		Swing	-0.97

Electoral divisions of Tasmania
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