Division of Riverina
| Riverina Australian House of Representatives Division | |
|---|---|
 Division of Riverina (green) within New South Wales | |
| Created: | 1901, 1993 |
| Abolished: | 1984 |
| MP: | Kay Hull |
| Party: | National |
| Namesake: | Riverina |
| Electors: | 91,364 |
| Area: | 42,201 km² (16,294 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Rural |
The Division of Riverina is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in south-west rural New South Wales, generally following the Murrumbidgee River valley. It includes the towns of Wagga Wagga, Junee, Gundagai, Hay, Leeton and Griffith. The Sturt Highway runs along the length of the Division.
The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after the Riverina region in which it is located. In the 1984 redistribution, the Division was abolished and replaced by Riverina-Darling, but in the 1992 redistribution it was re-created. The Division covers a primarily agricultural area.
The seat is currently a safe Nationals seat, but was a much more marginal seat when it included the Labor-voting mining towns of Broken Hill and Cobar which have now been transferred to Calare. The seat has previously been held by Al Grassby, Minister for Immigration in the Whitlam government.
Contents |
Members
| First incarnation (1901–1984) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Chanter | Protectionist | 1901–1903 | |
| Robert Blackwood | Free Trade | 1903–1904 | |
| John Chanter | Protectionist | 1904–1909 | |
| Labor | 1909–1913 | ||
| Franc Falkiner | Commonwealth Liberal | 1913–1914 | |
| John Chanter | Labor | 1914–1916 | |
| Nationalist | 1916–1922 | ||
| William Killen | Country | 1922–1931 | |
| Horace Nock | Country | 1931–1940 | |
| Joseph Langtry | Labor | 1940–1949 | |
| Hugh Roberton | Country | 1949–1965 | |
| Adam Armstrong | Country | 1965–1969 | |
| Al Grassby | Labor | 1969–1974 | |
| John Sullivan | Country | 1974–1977 | |
| John FitzPatrick | Labor | 1977–1980 | |
| Noel Hicks | National | 1980–1984 | |
| Second incarnation (1993–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Noel Hicks | National | 1993–1998 | |
| Kay Hull | National | 1998–present | |
Election results
| Australian federal election, 2007: Riverina | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National | Kay Hull | 52,779 | 62.57 | -4.47 | |
| Labor | Peter Knox | 24,471 | 29.01 | +4.48 | |
| Greens | Ray Goodlass | 4,130 | 4.90 | +0.58 | |
| One Nation | Craig Hesketh | 1,837 | 2.18 | -1.77 | |
| CEC | Gary Johnson | 1,141 | 1.35 | +1.31 | |
| Total formal votes | 84,358 | 96.17 | -0.01 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,361 | 3.83 | +0.01 | ||
| Turnout | 87,719 | 96.01 | -0.31 | ||
| Two Candidate Preferred Result | |||||
| National | Kay Hull | 55,868 | 66.23 | -4.62 | |
| Labor | Peter Knox | 28,490 | 33.77 | +4.62 | |
| National hold | Swing | -4.62 | |||
References
External links
- Division of Riverina AEC page
- "Division of Riverina map" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. http://www.aec.gov.au/pdf/profiles/r/riverina.pdf. Retrieved June 8 2007. (PDF, 150 kB)