Division of Moreton

Moreton Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Moreton in Queensland, as of the 2019 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Graham Perrett
Party	Labor
Namesake	Moreton Bay
Electors	102,758 (2019)
Area	109 km2 (42.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

History[]

Moreton Bay, the division's namesake

The division was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, and originally stretched from southern Brisbane all the way to the Gold Coast.^[1] While successive redistributions have left the seat completely landlocked, it has nonetheless retained the name of Moreton, mainly because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.^[2]

The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors for 86 years before Labor regained it in 1990. From then until 2013, it was a bellwether seat, electing the candidate from the winning party in every election.

The seat is known for having decided the 1961 federal election. The Liberals only won the seat by 130 votes to give the Coalition a bare one-seat majority; had 93 Communist preferences gone the other way, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.

On its current boundaries, the seat is very multicultural, with significant Asian, South Eastern European, Arab and African population in the southern part of the electorate particularly in the suburbs of Sunnybank, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Moorooka.

Boundaries[]

Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Acacia Ridge, Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, MacGregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Yeronga, and Yeerongpilly, and parts of Algester, Berrinba, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Drewvale, Eight Mile Plains, Parkinson, Sherwood, and Tarragindi, Corinda.

Members[]

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		James Wilkinson (1854–1915)	Independent Labour	30 March 1901 – 1904	Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Ipswich. Lost seat
			Labour	1904 – 12 December 1906
		Hugh Sinclair (1864–1926)	Anti-Socialist	12 December 1906 – 26 May 1909	Retired
			Commonwealth Liberal	26 May 1909 – 17 February 1917
			Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 3 November 1919
		Arnold Wienholt (1877–1940)	Nationalist	13 December 1919 – 6 November 1922	Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern. Retired. Later elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern in 1930
		Josiah Francis (1890–1964)	Nationalist	16 December 1922 – 7 May 1931	Served as minister under Lyons and Menzies. Retired
			United Australia	7 May 1931 – 21 February 1945
			Liberal	21 February 1945 – 4 November 1955
		(Sir) James Killen (1925–2007)	Liberal	10 December 1955 – 15 August 1983	Served as minister under Gorton, McMahon and Fraser. Resigned in order to retire from politics
		Don Cameron (1940–)	Liberal	5 November 1983 – 24 March 1990	Previously held the Division of Fadden. Lost seat
		Garrie Gibson (1954-)	Labor	24 March 1990 – 2 March 1996	Lost seat
		Gary Hardgrave (1960–)	Liberal	2 March 1996 – 24 November 2007	Served as minister under Howard. Lost seat
		Graham Perrett (1966-)	Labor	24 November 2007 – present	Incumbent

Election results[]

References[]

External links[]

• Division of Moreton (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 27°33′50″S 153°01′52″E / 27.564°S 153.031°E / -27.564; 153.031