Division of Wannon

Wannon Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wannon in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Dan Tehan
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Wannon River
Electors	99,213 (2016)
Area	33,854 km² (13,071.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the south-west of the state, and encompasses most of the Western District of the state. It adjoins the South Australian border in the west, and the Bass Strait coast in the south. The Division encompasses the towns of Warrnambool, Portland, Ararat, Hamilton and Halls Gap. The Grampians and the Port Campbell National Parks are in the Division. Maryborough and Avoca became part of Wannon at the 2013 federal election due to a redistribution that took place on 24 December 2010.

The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after the Wannon River. For the first half-century after Federation, it regularly traded hands between the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. However, a 1955 redistribution removed most of the seat's Labor-friendly territory, and it has been a safe Liberal seat since then.

The seat's most notable member was former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, to date the last Prime Minister from a country seat. His successor, David Hawker, was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives during the last term of the Howard Government. Hawker retired in 2010 and was succeeded by current member Dan Tehan.

Members

	Party	Term
Samuel Cooke	Free Trade	1901–1903
Arthur Robinson	Free Trade	1903–1906
John McDougall	Labour	1906–1913
Arthur Rodgers	Commonwealth Liberal	1913–1917
Arthur Rodgers	Nationalist	1917–1922
John McNeill	Labor	1922–1925
Arthur Rodgers	Nationalist	1925–1929
John McNeill	Labor	1929–1931
Thomas Scholfield	United Australia	1931–1940
Don McLeod	Labor	1940–1949
Dan Mackinnon	Liberal	1949–1951
Don McLeod	Labor	1951–1955
Malcolm Fraser	Liberal	1955–1983
David Hawker	Liberal	1983–2010
Dan Tehan	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Wannon

Australian federal election, 2016: Wannon^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Dan Tehan	47,513	53.23	−0.50
	Labor	Michael Barling	27,411	30.71	+1.18
	Greens	Thomas Campbell	7,264	8.14	+1.71
	Independent	Michael McCluskey	4,048	4.54	+4.54
	Independent	Bernardine Atkinson	3,019	3.38	+3.38
Total formal votes			89,255	96.04	+0.03
Informal votes			3,681	3.96	−0.03
Turnout			92,936	93.67	−1.94
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Dan Tehan	52,625	58.96	−1.11
	Labor	Michael Barling	36,630	41.04	+1.11
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.11

References

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

External links

Division of Wannon - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

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Coordinates: 37°42′11″S 142°26′53″E / 37.703°S 142.448°E / -37.703; 142.448

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