Division of Gellibrand

Gellibrand Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Gellibrand in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1949
MP	Tim Watts
Party	Labor
Namesake	Joseph Gellibrand
Electors	108,402 (2016)
Area	102 km² (39.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Gellibrand is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Joseph Gellibrand, a pioneer settler of the Melbourne area. It is located in the industrial inner western suburbs of Melbourne and includes Altona, Ardeer, Brooklyn, Footscray, Deer Park, Kingsville, Newport, Seddon, Spotswood, Sunshine, Tottenham, Williamstown, Yarraville and parts of Altona Meadows and Maidstone.

The Division has been held by the Australian Labor Party for its entire existence; it is located in Labor's traditional heartland of western Melbourne, and is characterised by a very diverse, multicultural population. Labor has never tallied less than 60 percent of the two-party vote. Its most prominent members have been Ralph Willis, a Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments, and Nicola Roxon, a Cabinet minister in the Rudd Government and the first and second Gillard Governments. Nicola Roxon was Australia's first female Attorney General in the Gillard Government.

In recent years there has been considerable gentrification in the inner-city suburbs such as Footscray, Williamstown and Yarraville, and a consequent rise in the progressive Greens vote, which rose to 37 percent in Footscray in the 2013 election. In the west, a solid patch of working-class suburbia remain strongly Labor-leaning.

For several years, Gellibrand was Labor's safest seat in the Federal Parliament. It is currently one of the safest for Labor on a 16.5 percent margin. The current member for Gellibrand since the 2013 election is Labor's Tim Watts.

Members

	Party	Term
Jack Mullens	Labor	1949–1955
Jack Mullens	Labor (Anti-Communist)	1955–1955
Hector McIvor	Labor	1955–1972
Ralph Willis	Labor	1972–1998
Nicola Roxon	Labor	1998–2013
Tim Watts	Labor	2013–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Gellibrand

Australian federal election, 2016: Gellibrand^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Tim Watts	43,340	46.90	+0.86
	Liberal	Ben Willis	24,607	26.63	−0.08
	Greens	Jonathon Marsden	19,855	21.48	+4.75
	Independent	David Tran	4,615	4.99	+4.99
Total formal votes			92,417	95.98	+1.60
Informal votes			3,868	4.02	−1.60
Turnout			96,285	88.82	−1.79
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tim Watts	63,060	68.23	+1.70
	Liberal	Ben Willis	29,357	31.77	−1.70
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.70

References

↑ Gellibrand, VIC, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Gellibrand - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

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Coordinates: 37°50′10″S 144°50′46″E / 37.836°S 144.846°E / -37.836; 144.846

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