Division of Wentworth

Wentworth Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wentworth (green) in New South Wales
Created:	1901
MP:	Malcolm Turnbull
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	William Wentworth
Area:	30 km² (12 sq mi)
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Wentworth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The Division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), a noted Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompanied Blaxland and Lawson on their crossing of the Blue Mountains. It is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with North Sydney, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party, though Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning the seat at the 1943 election. It was considered a blue-ribbon Liberal seat, and according the census, has the highest per-capita income of all seats in Australia. The seat is currently held by Liberal MP and former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

Area

Wentworth covers an area of approximately 29 km² from Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly. The western boundary runs along Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Downling Street, then eastward along Alison Road to Randwick Racecourse and Clovelly Beach. The Division of Wentworth is the division with the smallest geographical area in Australia.

It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Clovelly, Darling Point, Dover Heights, Double Bay, Edgecliff, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Queens Park, Randwick, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley and Woollahra.

The electoral redistribution in 2005 added the suburbs of Centennial Park, Darlinghurst, East Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Potts Point and Woolloomooloo while reducing the area of Randwick included in the division.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	William McMillan	Free Trade	1901–1903
	William Kelly	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1903–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1916
		Nationalist	1916–1919
	Walter Marks	Nationalist	1919–1929
		Independent	1929–1930
		Australian	1930–1931
		United Australia	1931–1931
	Eric Harrison	United Australia	1931–1944
		Liberal	1944–1956
	Les Bury	Liberal	1956–1974
	Robert Ellicott	Liberal	1974–1981
	Peter Coleman	Liberal	1981–1987
	John Hewson	Liberal	1987–1995
	Andrew Thomson	Liberal	1995–2001
	Peter King	Liberal	2001–2004
		Independent	2004–2004
	Malcolm Turnbull	Liberal	2004–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Wentworth

Australian federal election, 2010: Wentworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Malcolm Turnbull	51,634	59.57	+9.20
	Labor	Steven Lewis	18,265	21.07	-9.41
	Greens	Matthew Robertson	15,114	17.44	+2.48
	Independent	Pat Sheil	515	0.59	+0.29
	Independent	Malcolm Duncan	484	0.56	+0.56
	Carers Alliance	Stuart Neal	389	0.45	+0.45
	Secular	John August	275	0.32	+0.32
Total formal votes			86,676	95.50	+0.40
Informal votes			4,085	4.50	-0.40
Turnout			90,761	89.45	-3.08
Two-candidate preferred result
	Liberal	Malcolm Turnbull	56,219	64.86	+11.01
	Labor	Steven Lewis	30,457	35.14	-11.01
	Liberal hold		Swing	+11.01

References

• Division of Wentworth - Australian Electoral Commission