Division of McMillan

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McMillan Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory:	Victoria
Created:	1949
MP:	Russell Broadbent
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	Angus McMillan
Electors:	87,092
Area:	8,328 km² (3,215.5 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

The Division of McMillan is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the western part of the Gippsland region, which extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. It includes the outer south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, and also includes the towns of Warragul, Moe, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster. It stretches from Mount Baw Baw and the Baw Baw National Park in the north to Wilsons Promontory, and the Wilsons Promontory National Park in the south. It is the southernmost Electoral Division in continental Australia.

The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. It was named after Angus McMillan, one of the first Europeans to explore the Gippsland region. The Division is currently a marginal Liberal seat. The Division has changed hands five times in the last six Federal elections. The change at the Australian federal election, 2004 was attributed to the redistribution of 29 January 2003, which removed the traditionally Labor-voting cities of Traralgon and Morwell from the Division.^[1] Russell Broadbent held the seat again in the Australian federal election, 2007, making it the first time he has been re-elected.

Contents 1 Members 2 Election results 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Members

Member		Party	Term
	Geoffrey Brown	Liberal	1949—1955
	Alexander Buchanan	Liberal	1955—1972
		Independent	1972—1972
	Henry Hewson	Country	1972—1975
	Barry Simon	Liberal	1975—1980
	Barry Cunningham	Labor	1980—1990
	John Riggall	Liberal	1990—1993
	Barry Cunningham	Labor	1993—1996
	Russell Broadbent	Liberal	1996—1998
	Christian Zahra	Labor	1998—2004
	Russell Broadbent	Liberal	2004—present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: McMillan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	40,254	49.93	+7.00
	Labor	Christine Maxfield	30,743	38.14	+0.28
	Greens	Sandra Betts	4,839	6.00	+1.52
	Family First	Terry Aeschlimann	2,370	2.94	+1.23
	Democrats	Don Walters	1,206	1.50	+0.65
	Democratic Labor	Suryan Chandrasegaran	775	0.96	+0.61
	Citizens Electoral Council	Theo Alblas	287	0.36	+0.19
	Liberty and Democracy	Ben Fiechtner	141	0.17	+0.17
Total formal votes			80,615	96.57	+1.06
Informal votes			2,859	3.43	-1.06
Turnout			83,474	95.85	-0.04
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	44,172	54.79	-0.20
	Labor	Christine Maxfield	36,443	45.21	+0.20
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.20

Australian federal election, 2004: McMillan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	32,379	42.93	+13.80
	Labor	Christian Zahra	28,555	37.86	+0.94
	National	Bridget McKenzie	6,676	8.85	-7.74
	Greens	Chris Aitken	3,381	4.48	-0.89
	Family First	Harold Paul	1,289	1.71	+1.71
	Independent	Howard Emanuel	1,079	1.43	+1.43
	One Nation	A R Gizycki de Gozdawa	1,044	1.38	-2.55
	Democrats	Julie Grant	638	0.85	-3.10
	Democratic Labor	Greg Byrne	263	0.35	+0.35
	Citizens Electoral Council	Graeme Reid	127	0.17	+0.10
Total formal votes			75,431	95.51	-0.25
Informal votes			3,543	4.49	+0.25
Turnout			78,974	95.89	-0.17
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	41,477	54.99	+2.15
	Labor	Christian Zahra	33,954	45.01	-2.15
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.15

[edit] Notes

1. ^  "Three times lucky for seasoned campaigner", The Age, 11 October 2004. 

[edit] External links

• Division of McMillan. Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. Retrieved on 2007-06-29. (PDF, 192 kB)

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