Division of Fenner

Fenner
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Fenner in the Australian Capital Territory, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created 2016
MP Andrew Leigh
Party Australian Labor Party
Namesake Frank Fenner
Electors 138,814 (2016)
Area 513 km2 (198.1 sq mi)
Demographic Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Fenner is an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory. As of the 2018 redistribution, it includes Gungahlin and the part of Belconnen north of Belconnen Way and west of Eastern Valley Way, Aikman Drive and Willian Slim Drive (the suburbs of Belconnen, Charnwood, Dunlop, Evatt, Florey, Flynn, Fraser, Higgins, Holt, Latham, Macgregor, McKellar, Melba, Page, Scullin and Spence). It also includes the Jervis Bay Territory.[1]

History

Fenner replaced the abolished Division of Fraser from 2016. Fraser was always a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian Electoral Commission decided that, with effect from the 2016 election, the former Division of Fraser would be changed to the Division of Fenner, to honour scientist Frank Fenner. The name change was due to plans by the AEC to name a seat in Victoria after former prime minister Malcolm Fraser.[2][3] The proposed name change received opposition from some people such as Jon Stanhope.[4]

Fenner originally included the land in the ACT north of the Molonglo River and Lake Burley Griffin, including the districts of Belconnen, Gungahlin, North Canberra, except Civic, Acton, Turner south of Haig Park and east of Sullivans Creek, Braddon south of Haig Park, Reid, Campbell and Pialligo.[5]

At the 2018 redistribution, it lost all of its territory in North Canberra, the rural districts of Majura and Kowen and the Belconnen suburbs of Aranda, Bruce, Cook, Giralang, Hawker, Kaleen, Lawson, Macquarie and Weetangera to Canberra.[1]

Members

MemberPartyTerm
  Andrew Leigh Labor 2016–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2016: Fenner[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Andrew Leigh 56,796 45.80 +0.96
Liberal Robert Gunning 38,930 31.39 −0.33
Greens Carly Saeedi 18,929 15.26 +1.50
Independent Andrew Woodman 4,707 3.80 +3.80
Bullet Train Tim Bohm 4,660 3.76 −0.24
Total formal votes 124,022 97.18 +0.99
Informal votes 3,595 2.82 −0.99
Turnout 127,617 91.93 −0.88
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Andrew Leigh 79,242 63.89 +1.40
Liberal Robert Gunning 44,780 36.11 −1.40
Labor hold Swing +1.40

References

  1. 1 2 "Map of the Federal electoral division of Fenner" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. July 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Profile of the electoral division of Fenner (ACT)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Proposed redistribution of the Australian Capital Territory into electoral divisions" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Peake, Ross (24 November 2015). "Jon Stanhope appalled by ACT federal seat renamed from Fraser to Fenner". Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Map of the Federal electoral division of Fenner" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. January 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fenner, ACT". Virtual Tally Room 2016. Australian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

Coordinates: 35°14′10″S 149°06′40″E / 35.236°S 149.111°E / -35.236; 149.111

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