Division of Moreton

The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

Moreton
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Moreton in Queensland, as of the 2019 federal election.
Created1901
MPGraham Perrett
PartyLabor
NamesakeMoreton Bay
Electors102,758 (2019)
Area109 km2 (42.1 sq mi)
DemographicInner Metropolitan

History
Moreton Bay, the division's namesake

The division was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, and originally stretched from southern Brisbane all the way to the Gold Coast.[1] While successive redistributions have left the seat completely landlocked, it has nonetheless 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.[2]

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, electing the candidate from 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 significant Asian, South Eastern European, Arab and African population in the southern part of the electorate particularly in the suburbs of Sunnybank, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Moorooka.

Boundaries

Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Acacia Ridge, 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
Image Member Party Term Notes
  James Wilkinson
(1854–1915)		 Independent Labour 30 March 1901 –
1904		 Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Ipswich. Lost seat
  Labour 1904 –
12 December 1906
  Hugh Sinclair
(1864–1926)		 Anti-Socialist 12 December 1906 –
26 May 1909		 Retired
  Commonwealth Liberal 26 May 1909 –
17 February 1917
  Nationalist 17 February 1917 –
3 November 1919
  Arnold Wienholt
(1877–1940)		 Nationalist 13 December 1919 –
6 November 1922		 Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern. Retired. Later elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern in 1930
  Josiah Francis
(1890–1964)		 Nationalist 16 December 1922 –
7 May 1931		 Served as minister under Lyons and Menzies. Retired
  United Australia 7 May 1931 –
21 February 1945
  Liberal 21 February 1945 –
4 November 1955
  (Sir) James Killen
(1925–2007)		 Liberal 10 December 1955 –
15 August 1983		 Served as minister under Gorton, McMahon and Fraser. Resigned in order to retire from politics
  Don Cameron
(1940–)		 Liberal 5 November 1983 –
24 March 1990		 Previously held the Division of Fadden. Lost seat
  Garrie Gibson
(1954-)		 Labor 24 March 1990 –
2 March 1996		 Lost seat
  Gary Hardgrave
(1960–)		 Liberal 2 March 1996 –
24 November 2007		 Served as minister under Howard. Lost seat
  Graham Perrett
(1966-)		 Labor 24 November 2007 –
present		 Incumbent

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Moreton
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 Australian federal election in Queensland § Moreton[edit]
2019 Australian federal election: Moreton[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Angela Owen 37,011 40.83 +2.99
Labor Graham Perrett 31,864 35.15 −1.60
Greens Patsy O'Brien 15,189 16.76 +3.74
One Nation William Lawrence 3,002 3.31 +3.31
United Australia Jenny-Rebecca Brown 2,015 2.22 +2.22
Conservative National Aaron Nieass 1,561 1.72 +1.72
Total formal votes 90,642 97.00 +1.11
Informal votes 2,799 3.00 −1.11
Turnout 93,441 90.92 −0.79
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Graham Perrett 47,045 51.90 −2.12
Liberal National Angela Owen 43,597 48.10 +2.12
Labor hold Swing−2.12

References
  1. https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/fed2016/moreton/
  2. "Guidelines for naming divisions". Australian Electoral Commission. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  3. Moreton, QLD, Tally Room 2019, Australian Electoral Commission.

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