Division of Denison

This article is about the federal electorate. For the state electorate, see Division of Denison (state).

Denison Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Denison (green) in Tasmania
Created	1903
MP	Andrew Wilkie
Party	Independent
Namesake	William Denison
Electors	71,761 (2013)
Area	288 km2 (111.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Denison is an Australian electoral division in Tasmania. The division was one of the five established when the former Division of Tasmania was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1847–55. It is located in central Hobart, today including the suburbs of Glenorchy, New Town and Taroona.

Denison has been a consistently marginal seat, but was held by the Australian Labor Party between 1987 and 2010 with little difficulty. Its most prominent members have been Sir Philip Fysh, a member of the first federal Cabinet, Athol Townley, Minister for Defence in the Menzies Government, and Duncan Kerr, a minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments. Townley resigned in 1964 when he was named Ambassador to the United States, but he died before taking up the appointment. Another prominent member is the incumbent independent MP Andrew Wilkie, elected at the 2010 election. Denison has had 16 different members, the most (with Bendigo and Swan) of any federal electorate.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Sir Philip Fysh	Protectionist	1903–1906
		Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	William Laird Smith	Labor	1910–1916
		National Labor	1916–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1922
	David O'Keefe	Labor	1922–1925
	Sir John Gellibrand	Nationalist	1925–1928
	Charles Culley	Labor	1928–1931
	Arthur Hutchin	United Australia	1931–1934
	Gerald Mahoney	Labor	1934–1940
	Arthur Beck	United Australia	1940–1943
	John Gaha	Labor	1943–1949
	Athol Townley	Liberal	1949–1963
	Adrian Gibson	Liberal	1964–1969
	Robert Solomon	Liberal	1969–1972
	John Coates	Labor	1972–1975
	Michael Hodgman	Liberal	1975–1987
	Duncan Kerr	Labor	1987–2010
	Andrew Wilkie	Independent	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Denison

Australian federal election, 2013: Denison

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Andrew Wilkie	24,688	38.08	+16.82
	Labor	Jane Austin	16,043	24.75	−11.04
	Liberal	Tanya Denison	15,058	23.23	+0.58
	Greens	Anna Reynolds	5,133	7.92	−11.06
	Palmer United	Debra Thurley	1,576	2.43	+2.43
	Sex Party	Bob Butler	877	1.35	+1.35
	Family First	Trevlyn McCallum	593	0.91	+0.91
	Democratic Labour	Wayne Williams	554	0.85	+0.85
	Rise Up Australia	Graeme Devlin	179	0.28	+0.28
	Stable Population	Brandon Hoult	124	0.19	+0.19
Total formal votes			64,825	95.78	−0.60
Informal votes			2,856	4.22	+0.60
Turnout			67,681	94.31	−0.01
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jane Austin	38,186	58.91	−6.91
	Liberal	Tanya Denison	26,639	41.09	+6.91
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Andrew Wilkie	42,470	65.51	+14.30
	Labor	Jane Austin	22,355	34.49	−14.30
	Independent hold		Swing	+14.30

External links

• Division of Denison – Australian Electoral Commission