DIVISIONS OF THE AUSTRALIAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called 'Divisions'. They are also commonly known as 'electorates' or 'seats'. The British term "constituencies" is rarely used.

Contents

List of Commonwealth Electoral Divisions, 2004

New South Wales

Victoria

Queensland

Western Australia

South Australia

Tasmania

Australian Capital Territory

Northern Territory

Abolished Divisions

See also

External links

List of Commonwealth Electoral Divisions, 2004

The maps below show the Division boundaries as they existed at the 9 October 2004 House of Representatives election. The maps show each Division as being held by a particular party.

New South Wales

There are 50 Divisions:

★ Banks ★ Barton ★ Bennelong ★ Berowra ★ Blaxland ★ Bradfield ★ Calare ★ Charlton ★ Chifley ★ Cook ★ Cowper ★ Cunningham ★ Dobell ★ Eden-Monaro ★ Farrer

★ Fowler ★ Gilmore ★ Grayndler ★ Greenway ★ Gwydir ★ Hughes ★ Hume ★ Hunter ★ Kingsford-Smith ★ Lindsay ★ Lowe ★ Lyne ★ Macarthur ★ Mackellar ★ Macquarie

★ Mitchell ★ New England ★ Newcastle ★ North Sydney ★ Page ★ Parkes ★ Parramatta ★ Paterson ★ Prospect ★ Reid ★ Richmond ★ Riverina ★ Robertson ★ Shortland ★ Sydney

★ Throsby ★ Warringah ★ Watson ★ Wentworth ★ Werriwa

Victoria

There are 37 Divisions:

★ Aston ★ Ballarat ★ Batman ★ Bendigo ★ Bruce ★ Calwell ★ Casey ★ Chisholm ★ Corangamite ★ Corio ★ Deakin ★ Dunkley ★ Flinders ★ Gellibrand ★ Gippsland

★ Goldstein ★ Gorton ★ Higgins ★ Holt ★ Hotham ★ Indi ★ Isaacs ★ Jagajaga ★ Kooyong ★ Lalor ★ La Trobe ★ McEwen ★ McMillan ★ Mallee ★ Maribyrnong

★ Melbourne ★ Melbourne Ports ★ Menzies ★ Murray ★ Scullin ★ Wannon ★ Wills

Queensland

There are 28 Divisions:

★ Blair ★ Bonner ★ Bowman ★ Brisbane ★ Capricornia ★ Dawson ★ Dickson ★ Fadden ★ Fairfax ★ Fisher ★ Forde ★ Griffith ★ Groom ★ Herbert

★ Hinkler ★ Kennedy ★ Leichhardt ★ Lilley ★ Longman ★ Maranoa ★ McPherson ★ Moncrieff ★ Moreton ★ Oxley ★ Petrie ★ Rankin ★ Ryan ★ Wide Bay

Western Australia

There are 15 Divisions:

★ Brand

★ Canning

★ Cowan

★ Curtin

★ Forrest

★ Fremantle

★ Hasluck

★ Kalgoorlie

★ Moore

★ O'Connor

★ Pearce

★ Perth

★ Stirling

★ Swan

★ Tangney

South Australia

There are 11 Divisions:

★ Adelaide

★ Barker

★ Boothby

★ Grey

★ Hindmarsh

★ Kingston

★ Makin

★ Mayo

★ Port Adelaide

★ Sturt

★ Wakefield

Tasmania

There are five Divisions:

★ Bass

★ Braddon

★ Denison

★ Franklin

★ Lyons

Australian Capital Territory

There are two Divisions:

★ Canberra

★ Fraser (also covers Jervis Bay Territory)

Northern Territory

There are two Divisions:

★ Lingiari (also covers Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands)

★ Solomon

Abolished Divisions

These Australian electoral divisions no longer exist.

★ Angas (1903-34) (SA) ★ Angas (1949-77) (SA) ★ Australian Capital Territory ★ Balaclava (1901-1984) (VIC) ★ Barrier (NSW) ★ Bland (NSW) ★ Bonython (SA) ★ Bourke (VIC) ★ Burke (1949-55) (VIC) ★ Burke (1969-2004) (VIC) ★ Canobolas (NSW) ★ Cook (1906-55) (NSW) ★ Coolgardie (WA) ★ Corinella (1901-06) (VIC) ★ Corinella (1990-96) (VIC)

★ Dalley (NSW) ★ Dampier (WA) ★ Darebin (VIC) ★ Darling (NSW) ★ Darling Downs (QLD) ★ Darwin (TAS) ★ Diamond Valley (VIC) ★ Dundas (NSW) ★ East Sydney (NSW) ★ Echuca (VIC) ★ Evans (NSW) ★ Fawkner (VIC) ★ Grampians (VIC) ★ Hawker (SA) ★ Henty (VIC)

★ Higinbotham (VIC) ★ Hoddle (VIC) ★ Illawarra (NSW) ★ Isaacs (1949-69) (VIC) ★ Laanecoorie (VIC) ★ Lang (NSW) ★ Lawson (NSW) ★ Martin (NSW) ★ Mernda (VIC) ★ Moira (VIC) ★ Namadgi (ACT) ★ Nepean (NSW) ★ Northern Melbourne (VIC) ★ Northern Territory ★ Oxley (1901-34) (QLD)

★ Parkes (1901-69) (NSW) ★ Paterson (1949-84) (NSW) ★ Phillip (NSW) ★ Riverina (1901-84) (NSW) ★ Riverina-Darling (NSW) ★ Scullin (1955-69) (VIC) ★ South Sydney (NSW) ★ Southern Melbourne (VIC) ★ St George (NSW) ★ Streeton (VIC) ★ Watson (1934-69) (NSW) ★ West Sydney (NSW) ★ Wilmot (TAS) ★ Wimmera (VIC) ★ Yarra (VIC)

See also

★ For a list of members of the current House of Representatives and the electorates they represent, see List of members of the Australian House of Representatives.

★ For a description of how the House of Representatives is elected, see Australian electoral system.

External links

★ For an electoral history of each Division since Federation in 1901, see Adam Carr's Electoral Archive: Index of House of Representatives Divisions 1901-2001