Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives

 

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.

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 Flynn 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 5 Divisions:

• Bass
• Braddon
• Denison
• Franklin
• Lyons

Australian Capital Territory

There are 2 Divisions:

• Canberra
• Fraser (also covers Jervis Bay Territory)

Northern Territory

There are 2 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

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