Division of Chisholm

Chisholm Australian House of Representatives Division
300px Division of Chisholm (green) in Victoria
Created	1949
MP	Anna Burke
Party	Labor
Namesake	Caroline Chisholm
Electors	96,140 (2013)
Area	65 km2 (25.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Chisholm is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Caroline Chisholm, a social worker and promoter of women's immigration. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and includes the suburbs of Ashwood, Blackburn South, Box Hill, Burwood, Chadstone, Huntingdale, Mont Albert, Mount Waverley, and parts of Clayton, Forest Hill, Oakleigh and Surrey Hills.

On its original boundaries, it was a comfortably safe Liberal seat centered on Camberwell. However, successive redistributions from 1980 onward have moved the electorate south-east, taking in strongly Labor-voting suburbs to balance out the relatively affluent Liberal-leaning suburbs in the north of the seat, and making the seat marginal. The first member for Chisholm, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, was one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers, who held the seat until his death on 31 July 1970.

The current member for Chisholm since 1998 is Anna Burke, the second Labor member ever to win it. She served as the 28th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2013.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	(Sir) Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Liberal	1949–1970
	Tony Staley	Liberal	1970–1980
	Graham Harris	Liberal	1980–1983
	Helen Mayer	Labor	1983–1987
	Michael Wooldridge	Liberal	1987–1998
	Anna Burke	Labor	1998–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Chisholm

Australian federal election, 2013: Chisholm

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Nguyen	37,990	44.12	+3.90
	Labor	Anna Burke	34,015	39.50	−4.75
	Greens	Josh Fergeus	8,133	9.45	−2.44
	Sex Party	Luzio Grossi	1,762	2.05	+2.05
	Palmer United	Brian Woods	1,405	1.63	+1.63
	Family First	Martin Myszka	949	1.10	−1.56
	Democratic Labour	Pat Shea	860	1.00	+1.00
	Rise Up Australia	Melanie Vassiliou	650	0.75	+0.75
	Secular	Vidura Jayaratne	345	0.40	−0.20
Total formal votes			86,109	95.77	−0.55
Informal votes			3,802	4.23	+0.55
Turnout			89,911	93.41	−0.28
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anna Burke	44,431	51.60	−4.18
	Liberal	John Nguyen	41,678	48.40	+4.18
	Labor hold		Swing	−4.18

External links

• Division of Chisholm - Australian Electoral Commission